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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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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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Those few members who desert the cause are abandoning an oasis to search for water in the desert.
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What we insistently desire, over time, is what we become.
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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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God's extraordinary work is most often done by ordinary people in the seeming obscurity of a home and family.
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We can be walking witnesses and standing sermons to which objective onlookers can say a quiet amen.
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Never give up what you want most for what you want today.
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Each of us is an innkeeper who decides if there is room for Jesus!
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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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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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Many of those engaged in a lemming-like march to the sea are proud of their individualism.
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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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I thank the Father that His Only Begotten Son did not say in defiant protest at Calvary, My body is my own! I stand in admiration of women today who resist the fashion of abortion, by refusing to make the sacred womb a tomb!
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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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The soul is like a violin string: it makes music only when it is stretched.
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Sometimes we are so busy being the hammer or the anvil, that we forget who really needs the shaping.
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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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The prompting that goes unresponded to may not be repeated. Writing down what we have been prompted with is vital. A special thought can be lost later in the day through the rough and tumble of life. God should not, and may not, choose to repeat the prompting if we assign what is given such a low priority as to put it aside.
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