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Neal A. Maxwell
Age: 78 †
Born: 1926
Born: July 6
Died: 2004
Died: July 21
Priest
Theologian
Salt Lake City
Utah
Neal Ash Maxwell
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The imperfections of others never release us from the need to work on our own shortcomings.
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Oh, how great the plan of our God!
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When we rejoice in beautiful scenery, great art, and great music, it is but the flexing of instincts acquired in another place and another time.
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As we come closer to Him, we not only stand all amazed-we even kneel all amazed!
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Pure religion is having the courage to do what is right and let the consequence follow.
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Do not write a check with your tongue that your actions cannot cash.
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Though we live in a failing world, we have not been sent here to fail.
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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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Unproductive worry - like Parkinson's proverbial law - tends to expand to fill the time available.
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What we insistently desire, over time, is what we become.
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If the nearly one-and-a-half million babies aborted in America each year could, somehow, vote, chameleon candidates would find fresh reason to be concerned about abortion, whereas now they are unconcerned.
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If another person only had in his storehouse of deserved self-esteem what you had put there, what would he have to draw upon and to sustain him?
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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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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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We cannot improve the world if we are conformed to the world.
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God is very serious about joy in the lives of His children.
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The soul is like a violin string: it makes music only when it is stretched.
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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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Thus worshiping, serving, studying, praying, each in its own way squeezes selfishness out of us pushes aside our preoccupations with the things of the world.
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A new calling can beckon us away from comfortable routine and from competencies already acquired.
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