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Ultimate hope and daily grumpiness are not reconcilable.

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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
Ultimate
Hope
Grumpiness
Daily

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Patient endurance permits us to cling to our faith in the Lord and our faith in His timing when we are being tossed about by the surf of circumstance. Even when a seeming undertow grasps us, somehow, in the tumbling, we are being carried forward, though battered and bruised.
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Mercy can purge the soul of sin, making room for a fresh start. Truth is vital in order that we have an unvarying standard by which to determine what we are to be and to do and what we are to rid ourselves of. All the cardinal virtues, therefore, carry their own intrinsic as well as outward reward. A merciful man does do good to his own soul.
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Ultimate hope constitutes the anchor of the soul.
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Pure religion is having the courage to do what is right and let the consequence follow.
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Looking for honest ways to lift one another would . . . be more beneficial to our own self-esteem, for we would see more good in ourselves. We would cease to be so critical of our weaknesses and would find ways to allow our weaknesses to become strengths with God's help.
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A new calling can beckon us away from comfortable routine and from competencies already acquired.
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God does not begin by asking us about our ability, but only about our availability, and if we then prove our dependability, he will increase our capability.
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In contrast to the path of selfishness, there is no room for road rage on the straight and narrow way.
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Real hope is much more than wishful musing. It stiffens, not slackens, the spiritual spine.
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Repentance is a rescuing, not a dour, doctrine.
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We must endure the contempt of others without reciprocating that contempt.
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