Neal A. Maxwell Quotes - Page 10

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• There are certain mortal moments and minutes that matter. Certain hingepoints in the history of each human. Some seconds are so decisive they shrink the soul, while others are spent, so as to stretch the soul.

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  Choices, Soul, Matter

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• If we are not serving Jesus, and if he is not in our thoughts and hearts, then the things of the world will draw us instead to them! Moreover, the things of the world need not be sinister in order to be diverting and consuming.

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  Jesus, Heart, Order

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• The "new" in us is bound to notice the "old" that remains.

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  Remains, Bounds

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• These transcending truths restructure our understanding of ourselves and of the universe and bring within our view resplendent reality. To be seen only by those who have eyes to see, these flakes of fire are embedded in the holy scriptures. There these tr.

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  Eye, Reality, Fire

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• We can't dwell upon another's ingratitude without using up our time and talents unprofitably.

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  Time, Talent, Our Time

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• A few little flowers will spring up briefly in the dry gulley through which torrents of water pass occasionally. But it is steady streams that bring thick and needed crops. In the agriculture of the soul that has to do with nurturing attributes, flash floods are no substitute for regular irrigation.

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  Spring, Flower, Agriculture

  "Notwithstanding My Weakness". Book by Neal A. Maxwell, pg. 7, 1981.

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• Mother lode of learning.

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  Mother, Learning, Motherhood

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• Conscience warns us not to sink our cleats too deeply in mortal turf, which is so dangerously artificial.

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  Cleats, Artificial, Turf

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• A new calling can beckon us away from comfortable routine and from competencies already acquired.

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  Routine, Calling, Competencies

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• Defectors often cause more difficulty than disinterested disbelievers.

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  Causes, Disbelievers, Difficulty

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• I know the celestial criteria measure service, not status; the use of our talents, not the relative size of our talent inventories. I know that Church membership is not passive security but continuing opportunity.

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  Opportunity, Church, Use

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• Brigham Young observed, "Man's machinery makes things alike" (JD 9:370), while God gives to seemingly like individuals pleasing differences. Secularism is no friend of righteous individuality.

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  Friendship, Men, Differences

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• Obviously, family values mirror our personal priorities. Given the gravity of current conditions, would parents be willing to give up just one outside thing, giving that time and talent instead to the family.

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  Giving Up, Mirrors, Priorities

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• Therefore, as we strive to become as the Father is and as Jesus is, we are to become more gracious and merciful, more kind and considerate. Even more, we are to do this in a world which does little to encourage such qualities of character.

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  Jesus, Father, Character

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• If one is devoid of hope and thanksgiving, he cannot for long remain sinless, for he will, in despair, have slackened his resolve. Feelings of futility foster vulnerability. Self-pity is such a busy stagehand, rearranging the scenery to help sin make its entrance. No wonder the prophets say that without faith in the Lord, there is no hope.

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  Adversity, Self, Long

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• Real disciples absorb the fiery darts of the adversary by holding aloft the quenching shield of faith with one hand, while holding to the iron rod with the other (see Eph. 6:16; 1 Ne. 15:24; D&C 27:17). There should be no mistaking; it will take both hands!

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  Real, Hands, Iron

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• When great individuals move so marvelously along the straight and narrow path, it is unseemly of us to call attention to the fact that one of their shoelaces is untied as they make the journey.

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  Moving, Journey, Attention

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• Unproductive worry - like Parkinson's proverbial law - tends to expand to fill the time available.

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  Time, Law, Worry

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• The enlarging of the soul requires not only some remodeling, but some excavating.

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  Adversity, Soul, Remodeling

  Neal A. Maxwell (1991). “Men and Women of Christ”, Bookcraft Pubs

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• Spent time-like a spent bullet-tells us much about its "processor." for we see not only the residual slug, but indicators of how spent time is grooved by a man's soul, a reliable indicator of what a man is like.

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  Time, Men, Soul

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• I thank the Savior personally; for bearing all which I added to His hemorrhaging at every pore for all humanity in Gethsemane. I thank Him for bearing what I added to the decibels of His piercing soul cry atop Calvary.

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  Soul, Humanity, Piercings

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• We can hold to the iron rod even if others slip away and a few end up mocking us from "the great and spacious building."

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  Iron, Building, Ends

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• A patient willingness to defer dividends is a hallmark of individual maturity.

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  Maturity, Patient, Individual

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• Eventually, there will not be enough prisons if there are not enough good homes.

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  Home, Prison, Enough

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• Regarding trials, including of our faith and patience, there are no exemptions-only variations.

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  Adversity, Variation, Trials

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