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Neal A. Maxwell
Age: 78 †
Born: 1926
Born: July 6
Died: 2004
Died: July 21
Priest
Theologian
Salt Lake City
Utah
Neal Ash Maxwell
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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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Our little pebble of poor performance helps to start, or to sustain, an avalanche.
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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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In one degree or another we all struggle with selfishness. Since it is so common, why worry about selfishness anyway? Because selfishness is really self-destruction in slow motion.
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We are often not only to slow to get on our knees, but to quick to rise from them.
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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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We must endure the contempt of others without reciprocating that contempt.
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The authority of example and considerations of character, unlike pudding, are not whipped up in an instant.
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Each of us is an innkeeper who decides if there is room for Jesus!
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Consecration thus constitutes the only unconditional surrender which is also a total victory!
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Personal, spiritual symmetry emerges only from the shaping of prolonged obedience. Twigs are bent, not snapped into shape.
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The soul is like a violin string: it makes music only when it is stretched.
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Our inspired Constitution is wisely designed to protect from excesses of political power, but it can do little to protect us from the excesses of appetite or from individual indifference to great principles or institutions. Any significant unraveling of the moral fiber of the American people, therefore, finally imperils the Constitution.
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Oh, how great the plan of our God!
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The great challenge is to refuse to let the bad things that happen to us do bad things to us. That is the crucial difference between adversity and tragedy.
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Time is clearly not our natural dimension. Thus it is that we are never really at home in time. Alternately, we find ourselves wishing to hasten the passage of time or to hold back the dawn. We can do neither, of course, but whereas the fish is at home in water, we are clearly not at home in time--because we belong to eternity.
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God's anger is kindled not because we have harmed him but because we have harmed ourselves.
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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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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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Meekness, the subtraction of self, reduces the multiplication of words.
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