Neal A. Maxwell Quotes - Page 7

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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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• If another person only had in his storehouse of deserved self-esteem what you had put there, what would he have to draw upon and to sustain him?

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  Self Esteem, Draws, Persons

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• The dues of discipleship are high indeed, and how much we can take so often determines how much we can then give.

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  Giving, Discipleship, Determine

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• Occasionally some individuals let the seeming ordinariness of life dampen their spirits. Though actually coping and growning, others lack the quiet, inner-soul satisfaction that can steady them, and are experiencing instead, a lingering sense that there is something more important they should be doing . . .as if what is quietly achieved in righteous individual living or in parenthood are not sufficiently spectacular.

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  Soul, Important, Satisfaction

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• Those who turn against the Church do so to play to their own private gallery, but when, one day, the applause has died down and the cheering has stopped, they will face a smaller audience, the judgment bar of God.

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  Cheer, Play, Church

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• The Book of Mormon is to be feasted upon, not nibbled.

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  Book

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• Within what is allotted to us, we can have spiritual contentment.

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  Spiritual, Contentment

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• Consecration thus constitutes the only unconditional surrender which is also a total victory!

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  Victory, Surrender, Unconditional

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• If the nearly one-and-a-half million babies aborted in America each year could, somehow, vote, chameleon candidates would find fresh reason to be concerned about abortion, whereas now they are unconcerned.

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  Baby, Years, America

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• We may never become accustomed to untrue and unjust criticism of us but we ought not to be immobilized by it.

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  Unjust Criticism, May, Accustomed

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• Patience helps us to view imperfections in others more generously to the end that we may learn to be more wise than they have been.

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  Wise, Learning, Views

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• It is understandable how some people could give way to this kind of pervasive pessimism, but we speak of a gospel which brings good tidings of great joy and this must be reflected in our lives, if we are to be believable especially as we suggest to others that there is, in fact, not only a better way, but also the way. Scriptures that speak of man as a being who "might have joy" have more impact when falling from the lips or pens of men and women whose lives give fresh evidence of the validity of that scripture.

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  Fall, Men, Impact

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• Let the scriptures refresh you.

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  Scripture

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• A friend of mine who passed through a most severe trial, when I discussed it with him, he said simply, if it’s fair, it isn’t a trial.

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  Trials, Said, Mines

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• Ultimate hope constitutes the anchor of the soul.

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  Anchors, Soul, Ultimate

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

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• Life is an 'open-book' exam, but the problem is that most of the students don't have the 'book', or refuse to open it-a fact that ought to spur us on as Church members to share the gospel more widely so that life would be meaningful for more people.

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  Meaningful, Book, People

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• Patience is...clearly not fatalistic, shoulder-shrugging resignation. It is the acceptance of a divine rhythm to life; it is obedience prolonged. Patience stoutly resists pulling up the daisies to see how the roots are doing.

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  Acceptance, Roots, Obedience

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• Naive optimism and pervasive pessimism are both to be avoided, therefore. It's not an easy balance to maintain, to be asked to work away in the Ninevehs of our lives without being so conscious of the coming cataclysm that we are not serious citizens of our communities and nations. By living and sharing the gospel of Jesus Christ, we are doing the most relevant thing we can do by way of helping. (There are civic and other chores to be done, of course.) Day in and day out, the gospel is the one thing that is most relevant, and we are to be of good cheer.

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  Life, Jesus, Cheer

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• At the center of our agency is our freedom to form a healthy attitude toward whatever circumstances we are placed in!

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  Freedom, Attitude, Adversity

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• Those who do too much for their children will soon find they can do nothing with their children. So many children have been so much done for they are almost done in.

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  Children, Almost Done, Too Much

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• It is not the years but the changes that make us grow.

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  Change, Years, Grows

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• We are so busy constantly checking our own temperatures, we fail to notice the burning fevers of others.

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  Burning, Fever, Temperature

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• Ironically, brothers and sisters, the natural man who is so very selfish in so many ordinary ways is strangely unselfish in that he reaches for too few of the things that bring real joy. He settles for a mess of pottage instead of eternal joy.

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  Brother, Selfish, Real

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• Promptings for us to do good come from the Holy Ghost. These promptings nudge us further along the straight and narrow path of discipleship. The natural man doesn't automatically think of doing good. It isn't natural. How many people worry about the car behind them or the person below them? The natural man just doesn't do it. For us, however, these promptings enlarge our awareness of other people's needs and then prod us to act accordingly.

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  Men, Thinking, People

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• Discouragement is not the absence of adequacy but the absence of courage.

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  Courage, Adequacy, Absence

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