Neal A. Maxwell Quotes - Page 4

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• The Lord doesn't ask about your ability, only your availability; and, if you prove your dependability, the Lord will increase your capability.

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  Availability, Lord, Dependability

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• We cannot improve the world if we are conformed to the world.

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  Peer Pressure, World, Ifs

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• Many of those engaged in a lemming-like march to the sea are proud of their individualism.

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  Sea, Lemmings, Proud

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• When we rejoice in beautiful scenery, great art, and great music, it is but the flexing of instincts acquired in another place and another time.

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  Music, Beautiful, Art

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• Of all the errors one could make, God's gospel plan is the wrong thing to be wrong about.

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  Errors, Plans, Wrong Things

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• Those few members who desert the cause are abandoning an oasis to search for water in the desert.

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  Oasis, Water, Desert

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• Our God is a God of love. He waits with open arms, and the unfolding of His merciful plan of salvation is not only therefore the mark of divine power but also the mark of God's relentless, redeeming love. It is a point well worth pondering because, among other reasons, it will help us to understand better why God, through the prophets, denounces sin and corruption in such scalding terms. He loves all of us, His spirit sons and daughters, but hates our vices. His denunciation of those vices may, if we are not careful, seem to obscure the enormous and perfect love He has for us.

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  Love, Daughter, Hate

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• Men and Women of Christ magnify their callings without magnifying themselves.

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  Men, Calling, Christ

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

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• When we don't like to face up to hard facts, we use soft words. We do not speak about killing a baby within the womb, but about "termination of potential life." Words are often multiplied to try to cover dark deeds.

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  Life, Baby, Dark

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• God's anger is kindled not because we have harmed him but because we have harmed ourselves.

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• Our goals should stretch us bit by bit. So often when we think we have encountered a ceiling, it is really a psychological or experimental barrier that we have built ourselves. We built it and we can remove it. Just as correct principles, when applied, carry their own witness that they are true, so do correct personal improvement programs. But we must not expect personal improvement without pain or some 'remodeling.' We can't expect to have the thrills of revealed religion without the theology. We cannot expect to have the soul stretching without Christian service.

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  Christian, Pain, Thinking

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• Thus it is that our faith and trust in our Heavenly Father, so far as this mortal experience is concerned, consists not simply of faith and gladness that He exists, but is also a faith and trust that, if we are humble, He will tutor us, aiding our acquisition of needed attributes and experiences while we are in mortality. We trust not only the Designer but also His design of life itself, including our portion thereof!

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  Father, Humble, Design

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• Good homes are still the best source of good humans.

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  Home, Source, Humans

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• It is better to trust and sometimes be disappointed than to be forever mistrusting and be right occasionally.

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  Trust, Forever, Sometimes

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• Every dimension of the gospel is relevant to one or more of our social and political problems of our time.

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  Political, Dimensions, Problem

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• If we knew how often the obedience of others is affected by our own, and how often our stepping forth soon brings forth a whole platton of helpers, and how often our speaking forth soon creates a chorus - we would be even more ashamed of our slackess and our silence.

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  Silence, Would Be, Obedience

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• As parenting declines, the need for policing increases. There will always be a shortage of police if there is a shortage of effective parents! Likewise, there will not be enough prisons if there are not enough good homes.

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  Home, Parent, Police

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• Love, patience, and meekness can be just as contagious as rudeness and crudeness.

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  Rudeness, Patience Love, Meekness

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• Power is most safe with those who are not in love with it!

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  Safe

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• So often our sisters comfort others when their own needs are greater than those being comforted. That quality is like the generosity of Jesus on the cross. Empathy during agony is a portion of divinity!

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  Jesus, Agony, Generosity

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• We tend to think of consecration only as yielding up, when divinely directed, our material possessions. But ultimate consecration is the yielding up of oneself to God. Heart, soul, and mind were the encompassing words of Christ in describing the first commandment, which is constantly, not periodically, operative (see Matt. 22:37). If kept, then our performances will, in turn, be fully consecrated for the lasting welfare of our souls (see 2 Ne. 32:9).

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  Heart, Thinking, Soul

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• You must not mistake passing local cloud cover, for general darkness.

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  Mistake, Clouds, Darkness

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• Sometimes we are so busy being the hammer or the anvil, that we forget who really needs the shaping.

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  Needs, Hammers, Anvils

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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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• So it is that real, personal sacrifice never was placing an animal on the altar. Instead, it is a willingness to put the animal in us upon the altar and letting it be consumed! Such is the 'sacrifice unto the Lord... of a broken heart and a contrite spirit,' (D&C 59:8), a prerequisite to taking up the cross, while giving 'away all [our] sins' in order to 'know God' (Alma 22:18) for the denial of self precedes the full acceptance of Him.

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  Real, Heart, Acceptance

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