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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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When at length we tire of putting people down, this self-inflicted fatigue can give way to the invigorating calisthenics of lifting people up.
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One day the faithful will have it all!
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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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There is no democracy of facts.
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The acceptance of the reality that we are in the Lord's loving hands is only a recognition that we have never really been anywhere else.
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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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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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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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How myopic it is to view His ministry as all crucifixion and no resurrection!
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Every dimension of the gospel is relevant to one or more of our social and political problems of our time.
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Though we live in a failing world, we have not been sent here to fail.
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Celestial criteria measures service, not status.
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Sometimes, if you're like me, [God] will brace or reprove in a highly personal process not understood or appreciated by those outside the context.
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What we insistently desire, over time, is what we become.
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Conscience warns us not to sink our cleats too deeply in mortal turf, which is so dangerously artificial.
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We are often not only to slow to get on our knees, but to quick to rise from them.
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Our little pebble of poor performance helps to start, or to sustain, an avalanche.
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True discipleship is for volunteers only. Only volunteers will trust the Guide sufficiently to follow Him in the dangerous ascent which only He can lead.
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Personal, spiritual symmetry emerges only from the shaping of prolonged obedience. Twigs are bent, not snapped into shape.
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