Neal A. Maxwell Quotes - Page 12

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• I thank the Father that His Only Begotten Son did not say in defiant protest at Calvary, "My body is my own!" I stand in admiration of women today who resist the "fashion of abortion, by refusing to make the sacred womb a tomb!"

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  Fashion, Father, Son

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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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• Those of little faith mistake local cloud cover for general darkness. Keeping spiritually intact results in our keeping precious perspective by seeing "things as they really are."

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  Mistake, Clouds, Perspective

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• We must endure the contempt of others without reciprocating that contempt.

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  Endure, Contempt

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• The authority of example and considerations of character, unlike pudding, are not whipped up in an instant.

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  Character, Example, Pudding

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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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• I know sanctification comes not with any particular calling, but with genuine acts of service, often for which there is no specific calling.

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  Calling, Genuine, Acts Of Service

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• All of us must walk the same strait and narrow path, know the same kind of experiences as those we would seek to lead and to serve. There is not one strait and narrow path for the officers-the chosen-and another for the enlisted men. We are all to experience life "according to the flesh"; there is no other way, for it is the way to immortality and eternal life. Given the resplendent riches of the promised kingdom, why would anyone wish to walk another path than the one that leads us back to our gracious and merciful Father in Heaven?

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  Life, Father, Men

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• Listen to these wounds of pain put in the form of questions to me by a young woman who had had two abortions: "I wonder about the spirits of those I had aborted, if they were there, if they were hurt? I was under three months each time, but a mother feels life before she feels movement." "I wonder if they are lost and alone?" "I wonder if they will ever have a body?" "I wonder if I will ever have a chance again to bring those spirits back as mine?" Alas, brothers and sisters, "wickedness never was happiness" (Alma 41:10).

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  Life, Mother, Hurt

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• The unwillingness of most leaders to set standards, to administer feedback when standards are not met, to praise clearly when standards are met, stands in the way of the development of excellence. The leader who makes no demands of his disciples cannot really lead them at all. The sense of new excitement and new challenge generated by the gospel will be blunted by leaders who shield followers from the full demands of fellowship.

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  Leader, Challenges, Excellence

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• When at length we tire of putting people down, this self-inflicted fatigue can give way to the invigorating calisthenics of lifting people up.

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  Self, People, Giving

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

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• Celestial criteria measures service, not status.

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  Criteria, Celestial

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• Without gospel truths, man's efforts to reach his goals are like the northbound explorer who drove his dog sled feverishly northward on an ice pack that was flowing southward - only to find himself farther from his destination at the end of a hard day's journey than he had been at dawn!

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  Dog, Journey, Men

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• Progress is measured by milestones. What many good people lack are markers that might tell them how they are actually doing. Goals can become a ritual or a fetish, but in the right measure they can give us some much needed reference points. No wonder some seem discouraged! Minus such milestones, we often feel minus in our lives

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  People, Generosity, Giving

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• How myopic it is to view His ministry as all crucifixion and no resurrection!

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  Views, Ministry, Myopic

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