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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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These transcending truths restructure our understanding of ourselves and of the universe and bring within our view resplendent reality. To be seen only by those who have eyes to see, these flakes of fire are embedded in the holy scriptures. There these tr.
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Our journey is demanding enough that the need for reassurance as well as reminders is constant.
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How good you and I get at repenting will determine how good life is.
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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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Meekness, the subtraction of self, reduces the multiplication of words.
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Any assessment of where we stand in relationship to Him tells us that we do not stand at all. We kneel.
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We should not assume however, that just because something is unexplainable by us, it is unexplainable.
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Though we live in a failing world, we have not been sent here to fail.
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No love is ever wasted. Its worth does not lie in reciprocity.
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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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A father who finds it difficult to express his love vocally for his children may need, at first, to be humbly obedient in holding family home evenings in order to help him to discover, or to increase, his appreciation for his children. Next can come to him the courage to say I love you to each one.
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Conscience warns us not to sink our cleats too deeply in mortal turf, which is so dangerously artificial.
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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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