Neal A. Maxwell Quotes - Page 9

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• True discipleship is for volunteers only. Only volunteers will trust the Guide sufficiently to follow Him in the dangerous ascent which only He can lead.

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  Volunteer, Ascent, Guides

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• We must not fail, individually, for if we fail, we fail twice - for ourselves and for those who could have been helped, if we had done our duty.

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  Failure, Done, Failing

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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 experiential barrier that we have built ourselves. We built it and we can remove it.

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  Thinking, Generosity, Goal

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• Meekness, the subtraction of self, reduces the multiplication of words.

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  Self, Subtraction, Meekness

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• Man can learn self-discipline without becoming ascetic; he can be wise without waiting to be old; he can be influential without waiting for status. Man can sharpen his ability to distinguish between matters of principle and matters of preference, but only if we have a wise interplay between time and truth, between minutes and morality.

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  Wise, Time, Learning

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• God is very serious about joy in the lives of His children.

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  Children, Joy, Missionary

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• It is so easy to be confrontive without being informative; indignant without being intelligent; impulsive without being insightful.

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  Power, Intelligent, Insightful

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• Meanwhile, spiritual submissiveness brings about the wiser use of our time, talents, and gifts as compared with our laboring diligently but conditionally to establish our own righteousness instead of the Lord's (D&C 1:16). After all, Lucifer was willing to work very hard, but conditionally in his own way and for his own purposes.

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  Spiritual, Time, Work

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• Our journey is demanding enough that the need for reassurance as well as reminders is constant.

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  Forgiveness, Journey, Needs

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• Sir Thomas More was a victim of injustice and irony. Generously and meekly, just as he was about to be martyred, he said: Paul . . . was present, and consented to the death of St. Stephen, and kept their clothes that stoned him to death, and yet be they [Stephen and Paul] now both twain Holy Saints in heaven, and shall continue there friends for ever, so I verily trust and . . . pray, that though your lordships have now here in earth been judges to my condemnation, we may yet hereafter in heaven merrily all meet together, to our everlasting salvation.

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  Clothes, Judging, Heaven

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• Having faith in the plan of salvation includes steadfastly refusing to be diverted from our true identities and responsibilities. In the brief season of our existence on earth we may serve as a plumber, professor, farmer, physician, mechanic, bookkeeper, or teacher. These are useful activities and honorable designations; but a temporary vocation is not reflective of our true identities. Matthew was a tax collector, Luke a physician, and Peter a fisherman. In a salvational sense, 'so what!'

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  Teacher, Self Esteem, Responsibility

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• Some mothers in today's world feel "cumbered" by home duties and are thus attracted by other more "romantic" challenges. Such women could make the same error of perspective that Martha made. The woman, for instance, who deserts the cradle in order to help defend civilization against the barbarians may well later meet, among the barbarians, her own neglected child.

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  Mother, Children, Home

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• Endurance involves much more than putting up with a situation; Patient Endurance is more than pacing up and down within the cell of circumstance. True Enduring represents not merely the passage of time, . . . but the Passage of Soul.

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  Cells, Soul, Endurance

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• The issue for us is trusting God enough to trust also His timing. If we can truly believe He has our welfare at heart, may we not let His plans unfold as He thinks best?

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  Believe, Heart, Thinking

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• Enthusiasm needs to be effective enthusiasm. We must distinguish between the contribution and enthusiasm of the cheerleader and the enthusiasm of the player. While cheerleaders serve an important purpose, the real contest involves players on the field or on the court of life. We must not go through life acting only as enthusiastic cheerleaders available for hire; we must be anxiously and personally engaged.

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  Real, Player, Important

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• The laughter of the world is merely loneliness pathetically trying to reassure itself.

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  Laughter, Loneliness, Lds

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• Our God does not indulge us, but He is merciful toward our weaknesses as He strives to tutor us.

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  Weakness, Doe, Strive

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• God’s grace will cover us like a cloak-enough to provide for survival but too thin to keep out all the cold.

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  Lds, Grace, Survival

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• There is no democracy of facts.

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  Democracy, Facts

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• Clearly, when we baptize, our eyes should gaze beyond the baptismal font to the holy temple. The great garner into which the sheaves should be gathered is the holy temple.

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  Eye, Fonts, Temples

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• When one comes to know God and His Son Jesus Christ through the scriptures, the Spirit, and personal revelation, it is impossible to feel anything other than overwhelmed by the attributes so perfectly developed in them and so tentatively and superficially developed in oneself. Even so, we are told to strive to become like them.

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  Jesus, Son, Scripture

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• Though we have rightly applauded our ancestors for their spiritual achievements ... those of us who prevail today will have done no small thing.

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  Inspirational, Spiritual, Achievement

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• Trying to observe the slow shift from self-centeredness to empathy is like trying to watch grass grow.

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  Self, Empathy, Trying

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• The true Christian is a communicator.

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  Christian, Communicators

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• There is also the very real possibility that, in the justice of God, one of the reasons He uses the weak and the foolish of the world is so that no argument could be made later that certain people were advantaged in some unfair way by that which was unearned-either in the premortal life or here. Hence it seems prudent for us to realize that just because one is set apart or ordained to a certain calling or assignment he or she must not expect to be set apart from the stresses of life. There appear to be no immunities.

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  Real, Stress, Justice Of God

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