Neal A. Maxwell Quotes - Page 11

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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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• Mother lode of learning.

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  Mother, Learning, Motherhood

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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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• 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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• 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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• The Lord has said, ‘I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction.’ (Isaiah 48:10, 1 Nephi 20:10). He knows, being omniscient, how we will cope with affliction beforehand. But we do not know this. We need, therefore, the refining that God gives to us, though we do not seek or crave such tribulation.

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  Adversity, Giving, Needs

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• A father who finds it difficult to express his love vocally for his children may need, at first, to be humbly obedient in holding family home evenings in order to help him to discover, or to increase, his appreciation for his children. Next can come to him the courage to say I love you to each one.

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  Love, Appreciation, Children

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• Those who believe for a while make only a brief tour in the kingdom, though thereafter they often feel qualified to inform those who know even less about the Church; but the fact is they were really only tourists - not natives who really knew the kingdom's countryside.

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  Believe, Church, Tourists

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• Pray for me to learn quickly what I need to learn.

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  Needs, Praying, Pray For Me

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• Most of our suffering comes from sin and stupidity; it is, nevertheless, very real, and growth can occur with real repentance. But the highest source of suffering appears to be reserved for the innocent who undergo divine tutorial training.

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  Real, Stupidity, Growth

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• I am as I am, And so is a stone; Them that don't like me, Must leave me alone.

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  Leave Me Alone, Stones, Don't Like Me

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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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• 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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• The cumulative weight of all mortal sins--past, present, and future--pressed upon that perfect, sinless, and sensitive Soul! All our infirmities and sicknesses were somehow, too, a part of the awful arithmetic of the Atonement. (See Alma 7:11-12; Isa. 53:3-5; Matt. 8:17.) The anguished Jesus not only pled with the Father that the hour and cup might pass from Him, but with this relevant citation. 'And he said, Abba, Father, all things are possible unto thee; take away this cup from me.' (Mark 14:35-36.)

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  Jesus, Father, Past

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• We are in bondage to that which overcomes us. See also 2 Peter 2:19.

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  Overcoming, Bondage, Peter

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• Some find it easier to bend their knees than their minds. Exciting exploration is preferred to plodding implementation; speculation seems more fun than consecration, and so is trying to soften the hard doctrines instead of submitting to them. Worse still, by not obeying, these . . . lack real knowing. Lacking real knowing, they cannot defend their faith and may become critics instead of defenders!

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  Faith, Fun, Real

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• Empathy during agony is a portion of divinity.

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  Agony, Empathy, Divinity

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• Truly we work and live on a streetful of splendid people, whom we are to love and serve even if they are uninterested in us!

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  People, Splendid, Ifs

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• By seeing life's experiences on through to the end, on our small scale we can finally say, as Jesus did on the cross, "It is finished". We too can then have "finished [our] preparations," having done the particular work God gave each of us to do.

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  Life, Jesus, Taken

  "Men and Women of Christ".

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• The charity of good women is such that their 'love makes no parade'; they are not glad 'when others go wrong'; they are too busy serving to sit statusfully about, waiting to be offended.

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  Waiting, Good Woman, Charity

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• One simply cannot come to a cause like the kingdom of God, with its celestial concepts, and not appreciate and identify with what Ammon said: "Behold, I say unto you, I cannot say the smallest part which I feel."

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  Appreciation, Appreciate, Causes

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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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• Even the good can become careless without the Lord's being there to chasten.

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  Being There, Lord, Careless

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• There will be many fine and wonderful men and women of all races and creeds-and of no religious creeds at all-who will lead decent and useful lives.

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  Religious, Men, Race

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• The doctrine of foreordination is not a doctrine of repose; instead, it is a doctrine for second- and third-milers, and it will draw out of them the last full measure of devotion. It is a doctrine for the deep believer but it will bring only scorn from the skeptic.

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  Doctrine, Lasts, Devotion

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