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God will facilitate, but He will not force.

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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Theologian
Salt Lake City
Utah
Neal Ash Maxwell
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A new calling can beckon us away from comfortable routine and from competencies already acquired.
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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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The prompting that goes unresponded to may not be repeated. Writing down what we have been prompted with is vital. A special thought can be lost later in the day through the rough and tumble of life. God should not, and may not, choose to repeat the prompting if we assign what is given such a low priority as to put it aside.
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The acceptance of the reality that we are in the Lord's loving hands is only a recognition that we have never really been anywhere else.
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The flame of family can warm us and at the same time be a perpetual pilot light to rekindle us.
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The scriptures offer us so many doctrinal diamonds. And when the light of the Spirit plays upon their several facets, they sparkle with celestial sense and illuminate the path we are to follow.
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Real hope is much more than wishful musing. It stiffens, not slackens, the spiritual spine.
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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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I know sanctification comes not with any particular calling, but with genuine acts of service, often for which there is no specific calling.
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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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Many of those engaged in a lemming-like march to the sea are proud of their individualism.
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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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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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The new in us is bound to notice the old that remains.
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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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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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Therefore, as we strive to become as the Father is and as Jesus is, we are to become more gracious and merciful, more kind and considerate. Even more, we are to do this in a world which does little to encourage such qualities of character.
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How could there be refining fires without our enduring some heat?
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I am as I am, And so is a stone Them that don't like me, Must leave me alone.
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