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Blessed is he who will not be offended
— Neal A. Maxwell
Do not let the future be held hostage by the past
— Neal A. Maxwell
Within what is allotted to us, we can have spiritual contentment.
— Neal A. Maxwell
Regarding trials, including of our faith and patience, there are no exemptions-only variations.
— Neal A. Maxwell
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.
— Neal A. Maxwell
It's service, not status, that counts.
— Neal A. Maxwell
We cannot improve the world if we are conformed to the world.
— Neal A. Maxwell
The cavity which suffering carves into our souls will one day also be the receptacle of joy.
— Neal A. Maxwell
A society which permits anything will eventually lose everything.
— Neal A. Maxwell
It is not the years but the changes that make us grow.
— Neal A. Maxwell
When we feel so alone, we cannot presume to teach him who, at the apogee of his agony, trod "the winepress alone" anything about feeling forsaken.
— Neal A. Maxwell
God will facilitate, but He will not force.
— Neal A. Maxwell
You must not mistake passing local cloud cover, for general darkness.
— Neal A. Maxwell
Don't fear, just live right.
— Neal A. Maxwell
We must not fail, individually, for if we fail, we fail twice - for ourselves and for those who could have been helped, if we had done our duty.
— Neal A. Maxwell
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.
— Neal A. Maxwell
Though we live in a failing world, we have not been sent here to fail.
— Neal A. Maxwell
When we rejoice in beautiful scenery, great art, and great music, it is but the flexing of instincts acquired in another place and another time.
— Neal A. Maxwell
The laughter of the world is merely loneliness pathetically trying to reassure itself.
— Neal A. Maxwell
Oh, how great the plan of our God!
— Neal A. Maxwell
In order for men to partake of the fruit of felicity,they must plant the seeds thereof.
— Neal A. Maxwell
Good homes are still the best source of good humans.
— Neal A. Maxwell
Consecration thus constitutes the only unconditional surrender which is also a total victory!
— Neal A. Maxwell
When our minds really catch hold of the significance of Jesus' atonement, the world's hold on us loosens.
— Neal A. Maxwell
On the straight and narrow path, there are simply no corners to be cut.
— Neal A. Maxwell
As George MacDonald wisely wrote, "The one principle of hell is, I am my own!" 4 Fierce pride usually protects this wrong perception.
— Neal A. Maxwell
Conscience warns us not to sink our cleats too deeply in mortal turf, which is so dangerously artificial.
— Neal A. Maxwell
The dues of discipleship are high indeed, and how much we can take so often determines how much we can then give.
— Neal A. Maxwell
We cannot repent for someone else. But we can forgive someone else, refusing to hold hostage those whom the Lord seeks to set free!
— Neal A. Maxwell
Mother lode of learning.
— Neal A. Maxwell
Our journey is demanding enough that the need for reassurance as well as reminders is constant.
— Neal A. Maxwell
Sometimes, if you're like me, [God] will brace or reprove in a highly personal process not understood or appreciated by those outside the context.
— Neal A. Maxwell
It is better to trust and sometimes be disappointed than to be forever mistrusting and be right occasionally.
— Neal A. Maxwell
Love is never wasted, even if it is not reciprocated.
— Neal A. Maxwell
We can be walking witnesses and standing sermons to which objective onlookers can say a quiet amen.
— Neal A. Maxwell
Faith in God includes Faith in God's timing.
— Neal A. Maxwell
A new calling can beckon us away from comfortable routine and from competencies already acquired.
— Neal A. Maxwell
Faith in God includes faith in His timing.
— Neal A. Maxwell
How good you and I get at repenting will determine how good life is.
— Neal A. Maxwell
Many of those engaged in a lemming-like march to the sea are proud of their individualism.
— Neal A. Maxwell
Empathy during agony is a portion of divinity.
— Neal A. Maxwell
God's anger is kindled not because we have harmed him but because we have harmed ourselves.
— Neal A. Maxwell
Crowds cannot make right what God has declared to be wrong.
— Neal A. Maxwell
The gross size of our talent inventories is less important than the net use of our talents?
— Neal A. Maxwell
Any assessment of where we stand in relationship to Him tells us that we do not stand at all. We kneel.
— Neal A. Maxwell
Of all the errors one could make, God's gospel plan is the wrong thing to be wrong about.
— Neal A. Maxwell
Let us have integrity and not write checks with our tongues which our conduct cannot cash.
— Neal A. Maxwell
He knows that having put his hand to the plow he must not look back, because when we are looking back, we are also holding back.
— Neal A. Maxwell
If another person only had in his storehouse of deserved self-esteem what you had put there, what would he have to draw upon and to sustain him?
— Neal A. Maxwell
We are often not only to slow to get on our knees, but to quick to rise from them.
— Neal A. Maxwell
Perfect love is perfectly patient.
— Neal A. Maxwell
If, in the end, you have not chosen Jesus Christ it will not matter what you have chosen.
— Neal A. Maxwell
Unproductive worry - like Parkinson's proverbial law - tends to expand to fill the time available.
— Neal A. Maxwell
Work is always a spiritual necessity even if, for some, work is not an economic necessity.
— Neal A. Maxwell
As we come closer to Him, we not only "stand all amazed"-we even kneel all amazed!
— Neal A. Maxwell
It is so easy to be confrontive without being informative; indignant without being intelligent; impulsive without being insightful.
— Neal A. Maxwell
Real hope is much more than wishful musing. It stiffens, not slackens, the spiritual spine.
— Neal A. Maxwell
We may never become accustomed to untrue and unjust criticism of us but we ought not to be immobilized by it.
— Neal A. Maxwell
If the kingdom of God is not first, it doesn't matter what's second.
— Neal A. Maxwell
One day the faithful will have it all!
— Neal A. Maxwell
Coming unto the Lord is not a negotiation, but a surrender.
— Neal A. Maxwell
The harrowing of the soul can be like the harrowing of the soil; to increase the yield, things are turned upside down.
— Neal A. Maxwell
I know sanctification comes not with any particular calling, but with genuine acts of service, often for which there is no specific calling.
— Neal A. Maxwell
Never give up what you want most for what you want today.
— Neal A. Maxwell
Defectors often cause more difficulty than disinterested disbelievers.
— Neal A. Maxwell
Each of us is an innkeeper who decides if there is room for Jesus!
— Neal A. Maxwell
In a very real sense, all we need to know is that God knows all.
— Neal A. Maxwell
How can we truly understand who we are unless we know who we were and what we have the power to become?
— Neal A. Maxwell
We cannot lead or draw others to Christ unless we stand closer to Him than they do.
— Neal A. Maxwell
Satan delights to have us put ourselves down. Self-contempt is of Satan. There is no such thing in heaven.
— Neal A. Maxwell
We are so busy constantly checking our own temperatures, we fail to notice the burning fevers of others.
— Neal A. Maxwell
Letting off steam always produces more heat than light.
— Neal A. Maxwell
Our little pebble of poor performance helps to start, or to sustain, an avalanche.
— Neal A. Maxwell
The hardest work you and I will ever do is to put off our selfishness. It is heavy lifting!
— Neal A. Maxwell
We are in bondage to that which overcomes us. See also 2 Peter 2:19.
— Neal A. Maxwell
In contrast to the path of selfishness, there is no room for road rage on the straight and narrow way.
— Neal A. Maxwell
Let the scriptures refresh you.
— Neal A. Maxwell
At the center of our agency is our freedom to form a healthy attitude toward whatever circumstances we are placed in!
— Neal A. Maxwell
The true Christian is a communicator.
— Neal A. Maxwell
Why is it that for many persons changing others is so exciting and so relevant, while changing oneself is so boring and irrelevant?
— Neal A. Maxwell
The winds of tribulation, which blow out some men's candles of commitment, only fan the fires of faith of others.
— Neal A. Maxwell
How could there be refining fires without our enduring some heat?
— Neal A. Maxwell
The more seriously we work on our own imperfections, the less we are judgemental of the imperfections of others.
— Neal A. Maxwell
The "new" in us is bound to notice the "old" that remains.
— Neal A. Maxwell
The more quickly we loosen our grip on the things of the world the more firmly we can take hold of the things of eternity.
— Neal A. Maxwell
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.
— Neal A. Maxwell
Personal, spiritual symmetry emerges only from the shaping of prolonged obedience. Twigs are bent, not snapped into shape.
— Neal A. Maxwell
We can hold to the iron rod even if others slip away and a few end up mocking us from "the great and spacious building."
— Neal A. Maxwell
The good life is the best preparation for bad times.
— Neal A. Maxwell
Ultimate hope constitutes the anchor of the soul.
— Neal A. Maxwell
Pure religion is having the courage to do what is right and let the consequence follow.
— Neal A. Maxwell
Repentance is a rescuing, not a dour, doctrine.
— Neal A. Maxwell