Neal A. Maxwell Quotes - Page 6

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• A vague goal is no goal at all. The Ten Commandments wouldn't be very impressive, for instance, if they weren't specific, but simply were couched in a phraseology such as 'thou shalt not be a bad person.

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  Goal, Impressive, Ten Commandments

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• Frequently, we busily search for group service projects, which are surely needed and commendable, when quiet, personal service is also urgently needed. Sometimes the completing of an occasional group service project ironically salves our consciences when, in fact, we are constantly surrounded by a multitude of opportunities for individual service. In serving, as in true worship, we need to do some things together and some things personally. Our spiritual symmetry is our own responsibility, and balance is so important.

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  Spiritual, Responsibility, Opportunity

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• In the economy of Heaven, God does not send thunder if a still, small voice is enough, or a prophet if a priest can do the job.

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  Jobs, Voice, Heaven

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• Just as meekness is in all our virtues, so is pride in all our sins. Whatever its momentary and alluring guise, pride is the enemy, "the first of the sins." One reason to be particularly on guard against pride is that "the devilish strategy of Pride is that it attacks us, not in our weakest points, but in our strongest. It is preeminently the sin of the noble mind." Not only of the noble mind, but also of the semi-righteous.

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  Pride, Mind, Enemy

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• How good you and I get at repenting will determine how good life is.

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  Good Life, Missionary, Life Is

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• Do not write a check with your tongue that your actions cannot cash.

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  Inspirational, Writing, Cash

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• It is possible to know when, at least basically, we please God. In fact, Joseph Smith taught that one of the conditions of genuine faith is to have "an actual knowledge that the course of life which [one] is pursuing is according to [God's] will."

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  Life, Faith, Taught

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• In one degree or another we all struggle with selfishness. Since it is so common, why worry about selfishness anyway? Because selfishness is really self-destruction in slow motion.

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  Struggle, Self, Worry

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• Pure religion is having the courage to do what is right and let the consequence follow.

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  Courage, Chasms, Pure

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• Although goal setting can clearly be overdone, only a few people are overly involved with goals and goal setting; most people do far too little goal setting, including the reflecting that precedes the setting of such goals. Too many marriages have financial goals but not other explicit goals. Yet the gospel is certainly goal-oriented.

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  Financial Goals, People, Generosity

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• It is one of the great ironies of human history that some mortals with incorrect understanding of God and life's purposes sometimes scold God because of the abundance of human misery and suffering-which, indeed, lies all about us. Such individuals almost dare God to demonstrate His existence by straightening things out-and at once! But He is a much different kind of Father than that. Surely it is requisite to eternal life that we come to know God and Jesus Christ whom He has sent (see John 17:3).

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  Jesus, Father, Lying

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• Any assessment of where we stand in relationship to Him tells us that we do not stand at all. We kneel.

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  Assessment

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• Consecration thus constitutes the only unconditional surrender which is also a total victory!

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  Victory, Surrender, Unconditional

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• If we knew how often the obedience of others is affected by our own, and how often our stepping forth soon brings forth a whole platton of helpers, and how often our speaking forth soon creates a chorus - we would be even more ashamed of our slackess and our silence.

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  Silence, Would Be, Obedience

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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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  Important, Use, Inventory

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• Ultimate hope constitutes the anchor of the soul.

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  Anchors, Soul, Ultimate

  Neal A. Maxwell (1999). “One More Strain of Praise”, Deseret Book Company

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• The dues of discipleship are high indeed, and how much we can take so often determines how much we can then give.

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  Giving, Discipleship, Determine

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• The Book of Mormon is to be feasted upon, not nibbled.

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  Book

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• Those who turn against the Church do so to play to their own private gallery, but when, one day, the applause has died down and the cheering has stopped, they will face a smaller audience, the judgment bar of God.

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  Cheer, Play, Church

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• 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?

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  Self Esteem, Draws, Persons

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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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  Wise, Learning, Views

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• If the nearly one-and-a-half million babies aborted in America each year could, somehow, vote, chameleon candidates would find fresh reason to be concerned about abortion, whereas now they are unconcerned.

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  Baby, Years, America

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• We may never become accustomed to untrue and unjust criticism of us but we ought not to be immobilized by it.

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  Unjust Criticism, May, Accustomed

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• It is not the years but the changes that make us grow.

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  Change, Years, Grows

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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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  Trials, Said, Mines

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