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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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Though we live in a failing world, we have not been sent here to fail.
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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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Why is it that for many persons changing others is so exciting and so relevant, while changing oneself is so boring and irrelevant?
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Each day I see all about me the fruits of commandment-keeping.
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A new calling can beckon us away from comfortable routine and from competencies already acquired.
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One day the faithful will have it all!
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A vague goal is no goal at all. The Ten Commandments wouldn't be very impressive, for instance, if they weren't specific, but simply were couched in a phraseology such as 'thou shalt not be a bad person.
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Power is most safe with those who are not in love with it!
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Real hope is much more than wishful musing. It stiffens, not slackens, the spiritual spine.
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It is possible to know when, at least basically, we please God. In fact, Joseph Smith taught that one of the conditions of genuine faith is to have an actual knowledge that the course of life which [one] is pursuing is according to [God's] will.
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Satan delights to have us put ourselves down. Self-contempt is of Satan. There is no such thing in heaven.
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Patient endurance permits us to cling to our faith in the Lord and our faith in His timing when we are being tossed about by the surf of circumstance. Even when a seeming undertow grasps us, somehow, in the tumbling, we are being carried forward, though battered and bruised.
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In Gospel grammar, death is not an exclamation point, merely a comma.
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Mother lode of learning.
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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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We cannot improve the world if we are conformed to the world.
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The gross size of our talent inventories is less important than the net use of our talents?
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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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Let the scriptures refresh you.
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God is very serious about joy in the lives of His children.
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