Neal A. Maxwell Quotes About Talent

Quotes about: Talent

• Obviously, family values mirror our personal priorities. Given the gravity of current conditions, would parents be willing to give up just one outside thing, giving that time and talent instead to the family.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Giving Up, Mirrors, Priorities

• We can tell much by what we have already willing discarded along the pathway of discipleship. It is the only pathway where littering is permissible, even encouraged. In the early stages, the debris left behind includes the grosser sins of commission. Later debris differs; things begin to be discarded which have caused the misuse or underuse of our time and talent.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Pathways, Littering, Talent

• Meanwhile, spiritual submissiveness brings about the wiser use of our time, talents, and gifts as compared with our laboring diligently but conditionally to establish our own righteousness instead of the Lord's (D&C 1:16). After all, Lucifer was willing to work very hard, but conditionally in his own way and for his own purposes.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Spiritual, Time, Work

• We can't dwell upon another's ingratitude without using up our time and talents unprofitably.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Time, Talent, Our Time

• The gross size of our talent inventories is less important than the net use of our talents?

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  Important, Use, Inventory

• I know the celestial criteria measure service, not status; the use of our talents, not the relative size of our talent inventories. I know that Church membership is not passive security but continuing opportunity.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Opportunity, Church, Use

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