Neal A. Maxwell Quotes - Page 10

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• Ultimate hope and daily grumpiness are not reconcilable.

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  Grumpiness, Ultimate

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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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• I find that goal setting, when done this way, leads to goal achieving. The chronic failure to achieve goals lowers self-esteem. Show me a failure to achieve a goal, and usually I can show you the violation of one or more of the above criteria. Imposed goals, vague goals, and unrealistic goals tend to produce only partial successes and outright failures.

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  Self Esteem, Generosity, Goal

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• I testify that He is utterly incomparable in what He is, what He knows, what He has accomplished and what He has experienced. Yet, movingly, He calls us His Friends

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  Accomplished, Incomparable, Knows

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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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• Each day I see all about me the fruits of commandment-keeping.

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  Each Day, Fruit, Commandments

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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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• The submissive will make it through to that final scene, for the word of God will lead the man and woman of Christ "in a straight and narrow course across that everlasting gulf of misery . . . and land their souls . . . at the right hand of God in the kingdom, to sit down with Abraham, and Isaac, and with Jacob, and with all our holy fathers" (Helaman 3:30) "who have been ever since the world began . . . to go no more out."

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  Father, Men, Hands

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• It's service, not status, that counts.

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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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• Mercy can purge the soul of sin, making room for a fresh start. Truth is vital in order that we have an unvarying standard by which to determine what we are to be and to do and what we are to rid ourselves of. All the cardinal virtues, therefore, carry their own intrinsic as well as outward reward. A merciful man does do good to his own soul.

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  Men, Order, 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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• 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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• So much depends, therefore, upon our maintaining gospel perspective in the midst of ordinariness, the pressures of temptation, tribulation, deprivation, and the cares of the world.

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  Perspective, Temptation, World

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• Education brightens a darkened world.

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  World

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• There are also flat periods in life which may well be the periods during which-before new lessons come- the past lessons of life are allowed to seep, quietly and deeply, into the marrow of the soul. These outwardly flat periods, when enduring well may not seem very purposeful,, are probably the times when needed attitudinal alignments are quietly occurring.

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  Life Lesson, Past, Soul

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• Without making a fetish of goal setting, and without letting "lists" of tasks we desire to do dominate us, some recording of goals is wise not only for the self-reminder these constitute, but also for the satisfaction of crossing things off.

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  Wise, Self, Generosity

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• Oh, how great the plan of our God!

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  Plans

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• We...live in a world that is too prone to the tasteless, and we need to provide an opportunity to cultivate a taste for the finest music. And, likewise, we’re in a world that’s so attuned to the now that we need to permit people to be more attuned to the best music of all ages.

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  Opportunity, People, Age

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• I assume, gladly, that in the allocation to America of remarkable leaders like Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, and Abraham Lincoln, the Lord was just as careful. After all, if you've got only one Abraham Lincoln, you'd better put him in that point in history when he's most needed-much as some of us might like to have him now.

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  Leadership, America, Might

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• Comparatively, we are so much quicker to return favors and to pay our debts to mortals - and we should be responsive and grateful. But what of Him who gave us mortal life itself, who will ere long give us all immortality, and who proffers to the faithful the greatest gift of all, eternal life? We are poor bookkeepers, indeed!

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  Life, Faith, Grateful

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• Repentance is a rescuing, not a dour, doctrine.

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  Doctrine, Repentance

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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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• 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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