Neal A. Maxwell Quotes - Page 6

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• The imperfections of others never release us from the need to work on our own shortcomings.

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  Imperfection, Needs, Release

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• Just as doubt, despair, and desensitization go together, so do faith, hope, and charity. The latter, however, must be carefully and constantly nurtured, whereas despair, like dandelions, needs so little encouragement to sprout and spread. Despair comes so naturally to the natural man!

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  Encouragement, Doubt, Despair

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• The Savior knows what it's like to die of cancer.

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  Cancer, Savior, Knows

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• In contrast to the path of selfishness, there is no room for road rage on the straight and narrow way.

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  Selfish, Way, Rooms

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• Real hope is much more than wishful musing. It stiffens, not slackens, the spiritual spine.

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  Spiritual, Real, Spine

  Neal A. Maxwell (1999). “One More Strain of Praise”, Deseret Book Company

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• On the straight and narrow path, there are simply no corners to be cut.

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  Cutting, Path, Corners

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• In one degree or another we all struggle with selfishness. Since it is so common, why worry about selfishness anyway? Because selfishness is really self-destruction in slow motion.

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  Struggle, Self, Worry

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• The mortal experience . . . is not like a college course which we can passively audit. Instead, we are taking life's course for credit and there are no summers off - not even semester breaks.

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  Life, Summer, College

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• . . . just as God cannot look upon sin with the least degree of allowance, as we become more like Him, neither can we. The best people have a heightened awareness of what little of the worst is still in them! Indeed, the divine discontent, the justifiable spiritual restlessness that we feel, is a natural follow-on feeling in the disciple who has taken the Lord's counsel to "make you a new heart and a new spirit." (Ezekiel 18:31.)

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  Spiritual, Taken, Heart

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• A basic cause of murmuring is that too many of us seem to expect that life will flow ever smoothly, featuring an unbroken chain of green lights with empty parking places just in front of our destinations!.

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  Light, Unbroken, Green

  Neal A. Maxwell (1999). “One More Strain of Praise”, Deseret Book Company

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• The harrowing of the soul can be like the harrowing of the soil; to increase the yield, things are turned upside down.

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  Yield, Soul, Soil

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

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• In the economy of Heaven, God does not send thunder if a still, small voice is enough, or a prophet if a priest can do the job.

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  Jobs, Voice, Heaven

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• Sometimes, if you're like me, [God] will brace or reprove in a highly personal process not understood or appreciated by those outside the context.

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  Sometimes, Appreciated, Braces

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• The truth is that not yet usually means never. Trying to run away from the responsibility to decide about Christ is childish. Pilate sought to refuse responsibility for deciding about Christ, but Pilate's hands were never dirtier than just after he had washed them.

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  Running, Mean, Responsibility

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• Time Management Tips: The perpetual processing of the same temptation is both dangerous and time-wasting. Cycling and recycling the same temptation (instead of rejecting such blandishment out of hand) is not only to risk one's soul, again and again, but is to bring on fatigue, so that the Adversary may be able to do indirectly what we will not let him do directly. A lack of decisiveness in dealing with temptation ties up our thought processes and prevents us from doing good with the time allotted to us.

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  Cycling, Hands, Ties

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• It is only by yielding to God that we can begin to realize His will for us. And if we truly trust God, why not yield to His loving omniscience? After all, He knows us and our possibilities much better than do we.

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  Trust, Yield, Why Not

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• A vague goal is no goal at all. The Ten Commandments wouldn't be very impressive, for instance, if they weren't specific, but simply were couched in a phraseology such as 'thou shalt not be a bad person.

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  Goal, Impressive, Ten Commandments

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• As we come closer to Him, we not only "stand all amazed"-we even kneel all amazed!

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  Prayer, Amazed

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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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• C. S. Lewis pointed out that some people are angry with God for His not existing, and others for His existing but for failing to do as mortals would have Him do. Instead of such childishness, we are urged to know God and to learn of His attributes.

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  Learning, People, Failing

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• Just as meekness is in all our virtues, so is pride in all our sins. Whatever its momentary and alluring guise, pride is the enemy, "the first of the sins." One reason to be particularly on guard against pride is that "the devilish strategy of Pride is that it attacks us, not in our weakest points, but in our strongest. It is preeminently the sin of the noble mind." Not only of the noble mind, but also of the semi-righteous.

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  Pride, Mind, Enemy

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• How good you and I get at repenting will determine how good life is.

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  Good Life, Missionary, Life Is

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• Although goal setting can clearly be overdone, only a few people are overly involved with goals and goal setting; most people do far too little goal setting, including the reflecting that precedes the setting of such goals. Too many marriages have financial goals but not other explicit goals. Yet the gospel is certainly goal-oriented.

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  Financial Goals, People, Generosity

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• It is one of the great ironies of human history that some mortals with incorrect understanding of God and life's purposes sometimes scold God because of the abundance of human misery and suffering-which, indeed, lies all about us. Such individuals almost dare God to demonstrate His existence by straightening things out-and at once! But He is a much different kind of Father than that. Surely it is requisite to eternal life that we come to know God and Jesus Christ whom He has sent (see John 17:3).

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  Jesus, Father, Lying

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• It is possible to know when, at least basically, we please God. In fact, Joseph Smith taught that one of the conditions of genuine faith is to have "an actual knowledge that the course of life which [one] is pursuing is according to [God's] will."

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  Life, Faith, Taught

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