Neal A. Maxwell Quotes About Adversity

Quotes about: Adversity

• How can you and I really expect to glide naively through life, as if to say, 'Lord, give me experience, but not grief, not sorrow, not pain, not opposition, not betrayal, and certainly not to be forsaken. Keep from me, Lord, all those experiences which made Thee what Thou art! Then, let me come and dwell with Thee and fully share Thy joy!'

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Life, Art, Pain

• All crosses are easier to carry when we keep moving.

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  Moving, Adversity, Missionary

• During our mortal schooling in submissiveness, we will see the visible crosses that some carry, but other crosses will go unseen. A few individuals may appear to have no trials at all, which, if it were so, would be a trial in itself. Indeed, if, as do trees, our souls had rings to measure the years of greatest personal growth, the wide rings would likely reflect the years of greatest moisture-but from tears, not rainfall.

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  Adversity, Years, Tree

• The winds of tribulation, which blow out some men's candles of commitment, only fan the fires of faith of others.

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  Adversity, Commitment, Blow

• A good friend, who knows whereof he speaks, has observed of trials, ‘If it’s fair, it is not a true trial!’ That is, without the added presence of some inexplicableness and some irony and injustice, the experience may not stretch us or lift us sufficiently. The crucifixion of Christ was clearly the greatest injustice in human history, but the Savior bore up under it with majesty and indescribable valor.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Adversity, Good Friend, Crucifixion Of Christ

• At the center of our agency is our freedom to form a healthy attitude toward whatever circumstances we are placed in!

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  Freedom, Attitude, Adversity

• These really are our days, and we can prevail and overcome, even in the midst of trends that are very disturbing. If we are faithful the day will come when those deserving pioneers and ancestors, whom we rightly praise for having overcome the adversities in the wilderness trek, will praise today’s faithful for having made their way successfully through a desert of despair and for having passed through a cultural wilderness, while still keeping the faith.

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  Adversity, Lds, Faithful

• If one is devoid of hope and thanksgiving, he cannot for long remain sinless, for he will, in despair, have slackened his resolve. Feelings of futility foster vulnerability. Self-pity is such a busy stagehand, rearranging the scenery to help sin make its entrance. No wonder the prophets say that without faith in the Lord, there is no hope.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Adversity, Self, Long

• The Lord has said, ‘I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction.’ (Isaiah 48:10, 1 Nephi 20:10). He knows, being omniscient, how we will cope with affliction beforehand. But we do not know this. We need, therefore, the refining that God gives to us, though we do not seek or crave such tribulation.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Adversity, Giving, Needs

• For the faithful, our finest hours are sometimes during or just
  following our darkest hours.

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  Time, Adversity, Faithful

• 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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  Adversity, Differences, Challenges

• Daily hope is vital, since the ‘Winter Quarters’ of our lives are not immediately adjacent to our promised land either. An arduous trek still awaits, but hope spurs weary disciples on.

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  Adversity, Winter, Land

• The enlarging of the soul requires not only some remodeling, but some excavating.

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  Adversity, Soul, Remodeling

  Neal A. Maxwell (1991). “Men and Women of Christ”, Bookcraft Pubs

• Regarding trials, including of our faith and patience, there are no exemptions-only variations.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Adversity, Variation, Trials

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