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The authority of example and considerations of character, unlike pudding, are not whipped up in an instant.
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
Neal Ash Maxwell
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Celestial criteria measures service, not status.
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Do not write a check with your tongue that your actions cannot cash.
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Real hope is much more than wishful musing. It stiffens, not slackens, the spiritual spine.
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Meekness, the subtraction of self, reduces the multiplication of words.
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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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Clearly, when we baptize, our eyes should gaze beyond the baptismal font to the holy temple. The great garner into which the sheaves should be gathered is the holy temple.
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