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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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As you submit your wills to God, you are giving Him the only thing you can actually give Him that is really yours to give. Don't wait too long to find the altar or to begin to place the gift of your wills upon it! No need to wait for a receipt the Lord has His own special ways of acknowledging.
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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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Good homes are still the best source of good humans.
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Love, patience, and meekness can be just as contagious as rudeness and crudeness.
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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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It is not the years but the changes that make us grow.
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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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Love is never wasted, even if it is not reciprocated.
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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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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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Trials and tribulations tend to squeeze the artificiality out of us, leaving the essence of what we really are and clarifying what we really yearn for.
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Blessed is he who will not be offended
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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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Education brightens a darkened world.
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We, more than others, should carry jumper and tow cables not only in our cars, but also in our hearts, by which means we can send the needed boost or charge of encouragement or the added momentum to mortal neighbors.
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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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The hardest work you and I will ever do is to put off our selfishness. It is heavy lifting!
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We must endure the contempt of others without reciprocating that contempt.
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Patience is...clearly not fatalistic, shoulder-shrugging resignation. It is the acceptance of a divine rhythm to life it is obedience prolonged. Patience stoutly resists pulling up the daisies to see how the roots are doing.
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