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Unproductive worry - like Parkinson's proverbial law - tends to expand to fill the time available.
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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Salt Lake City
Utah
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When we are unduly impatient with an omniscient God's timing, we really are suggesting that we know what's best. Strange isn't it-we who wear wrist watches seek to counsel Him who oversees cosmic clocks and calendars.
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We can't dwell upon another's ingratitude without using up our time and talents unprofitably.
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Our journey is demanding enough that the need for reassurance as well as reminders is constant.
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The flame of family can warm us and at the same time be a perpetual pilot light to rekindle us.
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Ultimate hope constitutes the anchor of the soul.
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We can hold to the iron rod even if others slip away and a few end up mocking us from the great and spacious building.
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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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Of all the errors one could make, God's gospel plan is the wrong thing to be wrong about.
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I assume, gladly, that in the allocation to America of remarkable leaders like Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, and Abraham Lincoln, the Lord was just as careful. After all, if you've got only one Abraham Lincoln, you'd better put him in that point in history when he's most needed-much as some of us might like to have him now.
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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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Though we have rightly applauded our ancestors for their spiritual achievements ... those of us who prevail today will have done no small thing.
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Obviously, family values mirror our personal priorities. Given the gravity of current conditions, would parents be willing to give up just one outside thing, giving that time and talent instead to the family.
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Empathy during agony is a portion of divinity.
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The harrowing of the soul can be like the harrowing of the soil to increase the yield, things are turned upside down.
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Men and Women of Christ magnify their callings without magnifying themselves.
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Looking for honest ways to lift one another would . . . be more beneficial to our own self-esteem, for we would see more good in ourselves. We would cease to be so critical of our weaknesses and would find ways to allow our weaknesses to become strengths with God's help.
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A new calling can beckon us away from comfortable routine and from competencies already acquired.
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