I know sanctification comes not with any particular calling, but with genuine acts of service, often for which there is no specific calling. Neal A. Maxwell More Quotes by Neal A. Maxwell More Quotes From Neal A. Maxwell Letting off steam always produces more heat than light. Neal A. Maxwell heat anger light We...live in a world that is too prone to the tasteless, and we need to provide an opportunity to cultivate a taste for the finest music. And, likewise, we’re in a world that’s so attuned to the now that we need to permit people to be more attuned to the best music of all ages. Neal A. Maxwell age opportunity people The authority of example and considerations of character, unlike pudding, are not whipped up in an instant. Neal A. Maxwell pudding example character If we entertain temptations, soon they begin entertaining us! Neal A. Maxwell entertaining ifs temptation 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. Neal A. Maxwell appreciation love children The enlarging of the soul requires not only some remodeling, but some excavating. Neal A. Maxwell remodeling adversity soul Selfishness is much more than an ordinary problem because it activates all the cardinal sins! It is the detonator in the breaking of the Ten Commandments. Neal A. Maxwell selfishness problem ordinary 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. Neal A. Maxwell journey attention moving There is no democracy of facts. Neal A. Maxwell democracy facts The scriptures offer us so many doctrinal diamonds. And when the light of the Spirit plays upon their several facets, they sparkle with celestial sense and illuminate the path we are to follow. Neal A. Maxwell scripture light play A few little flowers will spring up briefly in the dry gulley through which torrents of water pass occasionally. But it is steady streams that bring thick and needed crops. In the agriculture of the soul that has to do with nurturing attributes, flash floods are no substitute for regular irrigation. Neal A. Maxwell agriculture flower spring The true Christian is a communicator. Neal A. Maxwell communicators christian Long ago when a child lay in a manger, a special star appeared. It didn't just show up that evening. It had to have been placed in its orbit centuries before in a trajectory that would make it appear at that special moment of time to announce the birth of a special child. Just as there is divine design in the universe, so each of us has been placed in our own orbits in this life to love, to serve, to help light the world. Neal A. Maxwell christmas stars children Celestial criteria measures service, not status. Neal A. Maxwell celestial criteria Looking for honest ways to lift one another would . . . be more beneficial to our own self-esteem, for we would see more good in ourselves. We would cease to be so critical of our weaknesses and would find ways to allow our weaknesses to become strengths with God's help. Neal A. Maxwell weakness honesty self-esteem Without making a fetish of goal setting, and without letting "lists" of tasks we desire to do dominate us, some recording of goals is wise not only for the self-reminder these constitute, but also for the satisfaction of crossing things off. Neal A. Maxwell generosity self wise Comparatively, we are so much quicker to return favors and to pay our debts to mortals - and we should be responsive and grateful. But what of Him who gave us mortal life itself, who will ere long give us all immortality, and who proffers to the faithful the greatest gift of all, eternal life? We are poor bookkeepers, indeed! Neal A. Maxwell grateful faith life Progress is measured by milestones. What many good people lack are markers that might tell them how they are actually doing. Goals can become a ritual or a fetish, but in the right measure they can give us some much needed reference points. No wonder some seem discouraged! Minus such milestones, we often feel minus in our lives Neal A. Maxwell generosity giving people 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 unfold later. If you stay close to Him, You will have some great adventures. You will live in a time where instead of sometimes being fulfilled, many of them will actually be fulfilled. The Lord will unfold your future bit by bit. Neal A. Maxwell important adventure believe I find that goal setting, when done this way, leads to goal achieving. The chronic failure to achieve goals lowers self-esteem. Show me a failure to achieve a goal, and usually I can show you the violation of one or more of the above criteria. Imposed goals, vague goals, and unrealistic goals tend to produce only partial successes and outright failures. Neal A. Maxwell generosity self-esteem goal
