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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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Real hope is much more than wishful musing. It stiffens, not slackens, the spiritual spine.
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Patience helps us to view imperfections in others more generously to the end that we may learn to be more wise than they have been.
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Ultimate hope constitutes the anchor of the soul.
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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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We are in bondage to that which overcomes us. See also 2 Peter 2:19.
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Let us have integrity and not write checks with our tongues which our conduct cannot cash.
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One day the faithful will have it all!
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Patient endurance permits us to cling to our faith in the Lord and our faith in His timing when we are being tossed about by the surf of circumstance. Even when a seeming undertow grasps us, somehow, in the tumbling, we are being carried forward, though battered and bruised.
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The issue for us is trusting God enough to trust also His timing. If we can truly believe He has our welfare at heart, may we not let His plans unfold as He thinks best?
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A friend of mine who passed through a most severe trial, when I discussed it with him, he said simply, if it’s fair, it isn’t a trial.
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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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Meekness, the subtraction of self, reduces the multiplication of words.
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You rock a sobbing child without wondering if today's world is passing you by, because you know you hold tomorrow tightly in your arms.
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Let the scriptures refresh you.
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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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Empathy during agony is a portion of divinity.
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Selfishness is much more than an ordinary problem because it activates all the cardinal sins! It is the detonator in the breaking of the Ten Commandments.
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Of all the errors one could make, God's gospel plan is the wrong thing to be wrong about.
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God is very serious about joy in the lives of His children.
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True discipleship is for volunteers only. Only volunteers will trust the Guide sufficiently to follow Him in the dangerous ascent which only He can lead.
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