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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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Sometimes we are so busy being the hammer or the anvil, that we forget who really needs the shaping.
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I testify that He is utterly incomparable in what He is, what He knows, what He has accomplished and what He has experienced. Yet, movingly, He calls us His Friends
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Life is an 'open-book' exam, but the problem is that most of the students don't have the 'book', or refuse to open it-a fact that ought to spur us on as Church members to share the gospel more widely so that life would be meaningful for more people.
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As you submit your wills to God, you are giving Him the only thing you can actually give Him that is really yours to give. Don't wait too long to find the altar or to begin to place the gift of your wills upon it! No need to wait for a receipt the Lord has His own special ways of acknowledging.
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A friend of mine who passed through a most severe trial, when I discussed it with him, he said simply, if it’s fair, it isn’t a trial.
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God's extraordinary work is most often done by ordinary people in the seeming obscurity of a home and family.
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Ultimate hope and daily grumpiness are not reconcilable.
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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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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 little pebble of poor performance helps to start, or to sustain, an avalanche.
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Education brightens a darkened world.
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Of all the errors one could make, God's gospel plan is the wrong thing to be wrong about.
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Do not write a check with your tongue that your actions cannot cash.
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Those who do too much for their children will soon find they can do nothing with their children. So many children have been so much done for they are almost done in.
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Though we live in a failing world, we have not been sent here to fail.
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If we knew how often the obedience of others is affected by our own, and how often our stepping forth soon brings forth a whole platton of helpers, and how often our speaking forth soon creates a chorus - we would be even more ashamed of our slackess and our silence.
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The Lord knows our bearing capacity, both as to coping and to comprehending, and He will not give us more to bear than we can manage at the moment, though to us it may seem otherwise. Just as no temptations will come to us from which we cannot escape or which we cannot bear, we will not be given more trials than we can sustain.
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Repentance is a rescuing, not a dour, doctrine.
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Each day I see all about me the fruits of commandment-keeping.
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God will facilitate, but He will not force.
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