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Regarding trials, including of our faith and patience, there are no exemptions-only variations.
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
Neal Ash Maxwell
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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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The submission of one's will is really the only uniquely personal thing we have to place on God's altar. The many other things we 'give' are actually the things He has already given or loaned to us.
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Our inspired Constitution is wisely designed to protect from excesses of political power, but it can do little to protect us from the excesses of appetite or from individual indifference to great principles or institutions. Any significant unraveling of the moral fiber of the American people, therefore, finally imperils the Constitution.
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