Neal A. Maxwell Quotes - Page 11

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• Therefore, as we strive to become as the Father is and as Jesus is, we are to become more gracious and merciful, more kind and considerate. Even more, we are to do this in a world which does little to encourage such qualities of character.

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  Jesus, Father, Character

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• 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.

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  Adversity, Giving, Needs

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• A father who finds it difficult to express his love vocally for his children may need, at first, to be humbly obedient in holding family home evenings in order to help him to discover, or to increase, his appreciation for his children. Next can come to him the courage to say I love you to each one.

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  Love, Appreciation, Children

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• I thank the Father that His Only Begotten Son did not say in defiant protest at Calvary, "My body is my own!" I stand in admiration of women today who resist the "fashion of abortion, by refusing to make the sacred womb a tomb!"

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  Fashion, Father, Son

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• Unproductive worry - like Parkinson's proverbial law - tends to expand to fill the time available.

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  Time, Law, Worry

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• Spent time-like a spent bullet-tells us much about its "processor." for we see not only the residual slug, but indicators of how spent time is grooved by a man's soul, a reliable indicator of what a man is like.

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  Time, Men, Soul

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• Celestial criteria measures service, not status.

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  Criteria, Celestial

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• A patient willingness to defer dividends is a hallmark of individual maturity.

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  Maturity, Patient, Individual

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• Without gospel truths, man's efforts to reach his goals are like the northbound explorer who drove his dog sled feverishly northward on an ice pack that was flowing southward - only to find himself farther from his destination at the end of a hard day's journey than he had been at dawn!

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  Dog, Journey, Men

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• Eventually, there will not be enough prisons if there are not enough good homes.

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  Home, Prison, Enough

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• When great individuals move so marvelously along the straight and narrow path, it is unseemly of us to call attention to the fact that one of their shoelaces is untied as they make the journey.

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  Moving, Journey, Attention

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• When at length we tire of putting people down, this self-inflicted fatigue can give way to the invigorating calisthenics of lifting people up.

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  Self, People, Giving

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

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• Those of little faith mistake local cloud cover for general darkness. Keeping spiritually intact results in our keeping precious perspective by seeing "things as they really are."

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  Mistake, Clouds, Perspective

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• I am as I am, And so is a stone; Them that don't like me, Must leave me alone.

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  Leave Me Alone, Stones, Don't Like Me

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• Truly we work and live on a streetful of splendid people, whom we are to love and serve even if they are uninterested in us!

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  People, Splendid, Ifs

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• All of us must walk the same strait and narrow path, know the same kind of experiences as those we would seek to lead and to serve. There is not one strait and narrow path for the officers-the chosen-and another for the enlisted men. We are all to experience life "according to the flesh"; there is no other way, for it is the way to immortality and eternal life. Given the resplendent riches of the promised kingdom, why would anyone wish to walk another path than the one that leads us back to our gracious and merciful Father in Heaven?

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  Life, Father, Men

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• Most of our suffering comes from sin and stupidity; it is, nevertheless, very real, and growth can occur with real repentance. But the highest source of suffering appears to be reserved for the innocent who undergo divine tutorial training.

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  Real, Stupidity, Growth

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• 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

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• By seeing life's experiences on through to the end, on our small scale we can finally say, as Jesus did on the cross, "It is finished". We too can then have "finished [our] preparations," having done the particular work God gave each of us to do.

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  Life, Jesus, Taken

  "Men and Women of Christ".

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• The flame of family can warm us and at the same time be a perpetual pilot light to rekindle us.

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  Light, Flames, Pilots

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• The charity of good women is such that their 'love makes no parade'; they are not glad 'when others go wrong'; they are too busy serving to sit statusfully about, waiting to be offended.

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  Waiting, Good Woman, Charity

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• Empathy during agony is a portion of divinity.

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  Agony, Empathy, Divinity

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• The authority of example and considerations of character, unlike pudding, are not whipped up in an instant.

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  Character, Example, Pudding

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• How myopic it is to view His ministry as all crucifixion and no resurrection!

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  Views, Ministry, Myopic

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• Listen to these wounds of pain put in the form of questions to me by a young woman who had had two abortions: "I wonder about the spirits of those I had aborted, if they were there, if they were hurt? I was under three months each time, but a mother feels life before she feels movement." "I wonder if they are lost and alone?" "I wonder if they will ever have a body?" "I wonder if I will ever have a chance again to bring those spirits back as mine?" Alas, brothers and sisters, "wickedness never was happiness" (Alma 41:10).

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  Life, Mother, Hurt

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