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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 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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We can be walking witnesses and standing sermons to which objective onlookers can say a quiet amen.
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Unproductive worry - like Parkinson's proverbial law - tends to expand to fill the time available.
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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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Coming unto the Lord is not a negotiation, but a surrender.
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Though we live in a failing world, we have not been sent here to fail.
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How could there be refining fires without our enduring some heat?
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We should not assume however, that just because something is unexplainable by us, it is unexplainable.
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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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Oh, how great the plan of our God!
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Power is most safe with those who are not in love with it!
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Real hope is much more than wishful musing. It stiffens, not slackens, the spiritual spine.
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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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The mortal experience . . . is not like a college course which we can passively audit. Instead, we are taking life's course for credit and there are no summers off - not even semester breaks.
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It is extremely important for you to believe in yourselves, not only for what you are now, but for what you have the power to become.
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Each of us is an innkeeper who decides if there is room for Jesus!
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Real disciples absorb the fiery darts of the adversary by holding aloft the quenching shield of faith with one hand, while holding to the iron rod with the other (see Eph. 6:16 1 Ne. 15:24 D&C 27:17). There should be no mistaking it will take both hands!
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Never give up what you want most for what you want today.
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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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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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