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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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We should not assume however, that just because something is unexplainable by us, it is unexplainable.
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How could there be refining fires without our enduring some heat?
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The mortal experience . . . is not like a college course which we can passively audit. Instead, we are taking life's course for credit and there are no summers off - not even semester breaks.
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Love is never wasted, even if it is not reciprocated.
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Joshua didn't say choose you next year whom you will serve he spoke of this day, while there is still daylight and before the darkness becomes more and more normal.
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Never give up what you want most for what you want today.
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It is not the years but the changes that make us grow.
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Our journey is demanding enough that the need for reassurance as well as reminders is constant.
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Most of our suffering comes from sin and stupidity it is, nevertheless, very real, and growth can occur with real repentance. But the highest source of suffering appears to be reserved for the innocent who undergo divine tutorial training.
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Those few members who desert the cause are abandoning an oasis to search for water in the desert.
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Though we have rightly applauded our ancestors for their spiritual achievements ... those of us who prevail today will have done no small thing.
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Consecration thus constitutes the only unconditional surrender which is also a total victory!
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What we insistently desire, over time, is what we become.
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