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We can be walking witnesses and standing sermons to which objective onlookers can say a quiet amen.
Neal A. Maxwell
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Neal A. Maxwell
Age: 78 †
Born: 1926
Born: July 6
Died: 2004
Died: July 21
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Salt Lake City
Utah
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The more quickly we loosen our grip on the things of the world the more firmly we can take hold of the things of eternity.
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How can you and I really expect to glide naively through life, as if to say, 'Lord, give me experience, but not grief, not sorrow, not pain, not opposition, not betrayal, and certainly not to be forsaken. Keep from me, Lord, all those experiences which made Thee what Thou art! Then, let me come and dwell with Thee and fully share Thy joy!'
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One day the faithful will have it all!
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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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Consecration thus constitutes the only unconditional surrender which is also a total victory!
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As you submit your wills to God, you are giving Him the only thing you can actually give Him that is really yours to give. Don't wait too long to find the altar or to begin to place the gift of your wills upon it! No need to wait for a receipt the Lord has His own special ways of acknowledging.
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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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Perfect love is perfectly patient.
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We are in bondage to that which overcomes us. See also 2 Peter 2:19.
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The new in us is bound to notice the old that remains.
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On the straight and narrow path, there are simply no corners to be cut.
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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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God is very serious about joy in the lives of His children.
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God's extraordinary work is most often done by ordinary people in the seeming obscurity of a home and family.
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We...live in a world that is too prone to the tasteless, and we need to provide an opportunity to cultivate a taste for the finest music. And, likewise, we’re in a world that’s so attuned to the now that we need to permit people to be more attuned to the best music of all ages.
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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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It is so easy to be confrontive without being informative indignant without being intelligent impulsive without being insightful.
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I testify that He is utterly incomparable in what He is, what He knows, what He has accomplished and what He has experienced. Yet, movingly, He calls us His Friends
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Truly we work and live on a streetful of splendid people, whom we are to love and serve even if they are uninterested in us!
Neal A. Maxwell
The flame of family can warm us and at the same time be a perpetual pilot light to rekindle us.
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