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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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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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A father who finds it difficult to express his love vocally for his children may need, at first, to be humbly obedient in holding family home evenings in order to help him to discover, or to increase, his appreciation for his children. Next can come to him the courage to say I love you to each one.
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Let the scriptures refresh you.
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Repentance is a rescuing, not a dour, doctrine.
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God is very serious about joy in the lives of His children.
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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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I know sanctification comes not with any particular calling, but with genuine acts of service, often for which there is no specific calling.
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Unproductive worry - like Parkinson's proverbial law - tends to expand to fill the time available.
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Daily hope is vital, since the ‘Winter Quarters’ of our lives are not immediately adjacent to our promised land either. An arduous trek still awaits, but hope spurs weary disciples on.
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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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There will be many fine and wonderful men and women of all races and creeds-and of no religious creeds at all-who will lead decent and useful lives.
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Trying to observe the slow shift from self-centeredness to empathy is like trying to watch grass grow.
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The more quickly we loosen our grip on the things of the world the more firmly we can take hold of the things of eternity.
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If we are serious about our discipleship, Jesus will eventually request each of us to do those very things which are most difficult for us to do.
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Love, patience, and meekness can be just as contagious as rudeness and crudeness.
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Each of us is an innkeeper who decides if there is room for Jesus!
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Those of little faith mistake local cloud cover for general darkness. Keeping spiritually intact results in our keeping precious perspective by seeing things as they really are.
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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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What we insistently desire, over time, is what we become.
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