Quotes by Neal A. Maxwell

About Neal A. Maxwell:

Neal Ash Maxwell was an apostle and a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) from 1981 until his death.
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Within what is allotted to us, we can have spiritual contentment.

Neal A. Maxwell

Perfect love is perfectly patient.

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The laughter of the world is merely loneliness pathetically trying to reassure itself.

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Though we have rightly applauded our ancestors for their spiritual achievements (and do not and must not discount them now), those of us who prevail today will have done no small thing. The special spirits who have been reserved to live in this time ...

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Be careful, fathers, when you inordinately desire things to be better for your children than they were for you. Do not, however unintentionally, make things worse by removing the requirement for reasonable work as part of their experience, thereby in...

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There are certain mortal moments and minutes that matter. Certain hingepoints in the history of each human. Some seconds are so decisive they shrink the soul, while others are spent, so as to stretch the soul.

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What we insistently desire, over time, is what we become.

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Time is clearly not our natural dimension. Thus it is that we are never really at home in time. Alternately, we find ourselves wishing to hasten the passage of time or to hold back the dawn. We can do neither, of course, but whereas the fish is at ho...

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It is extremely important for you to believe in yourselves not only for what you are now but for what you have the power to become. Trust in the Lord as He leads you along. He has things for you to do that you won't know about now but that will unfol...

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Faith in God includes Faith in God's timing.

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Sir Thomas More was a victim of injustice and irony. Generously and meekly, just as he was about to be martyred, he said: Paul . . . was present, and consented to the death of St. Stephen, and kept their clothes that stoned him to death, and yet be t...

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I testify that He is utterly incomparable in what He is, what He knows, what He has accomplished and what He has experienced. Yet, movingly, He calls us His Friends

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We should certainly count our blessings, but we should also make our blessings count.

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How can we truly understand who we are unless we know who we were and what we have the power to become?

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To be cheerful when others are in despair, to keep the faith when others falter, to be true even when we feel forsaken—all of these are deeply desired outcomes during the deliberate, divine tutorials which God gives to us—because He loves us. The...

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God's extraordinary work is most often done by ordinary people in the seeming obscurity of a home and family.

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Each of us is an innkeeper who decides if there is room for Jesus!

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There is also a dimension of patience which links it to a special reverence for life. Patience is a willingness, in a sense, to watch the unfolding purposes of God with a sense of wonder and awe, rather than pacing up and down within the cell of our ...

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Patience is tied very closely to faith in our Heavenly Father. Actually, when we are unduly impatient, we are suggesting that we know what is best—better than does God. Or, at least, we are asserting that our timetable is better than His. We can gr...

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If, in the end, you have not chosen Jesus Christ it will not matter what you have chosen.

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Author Bio

  • NameNeal A. Maxwell
  • DescriptionMormon leader
  • BornJuly 6, 1926
  • DiedJuly 21, 2004
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionPriest