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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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If the Church were not true, our enemies would be bored rather than threatened, and acquiescent rather than anxious. Hell is moved only when things move heavenward.
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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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The authority of example and considerations of character, unlike pudding, are not whipped up in an instant.
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There is no democracy of facts.
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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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The good life is the best preparation for bad times.
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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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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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In contrast to the path of selfishness, there is no room for road rage on the straight and narrow way.
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The scriptures offer us so many doctrinal diamonds. And when the light of the Spirit plays upon their several facets, they sparkle with celestial sense and illuminate the path we are to follow.
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A society which permits anything will eventually lose everything.
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The Lord doesn't ask about your ability, only your availability and, if you prove your dependability, the Lord will increase your capability.
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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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The flame of family can warm us and at the same time be a perpetual pilot light to rekindle us.
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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 should certainly count our blessings, but we should also make our blessings count.
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Let the scriptures refresh you.
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God is very serious about joy in the lives of His children.
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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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Those few members who desert the cause are abandoning an oasis to search for water in the desert.
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