Never give up what you want most for what you want today. Neal A. Maxwell More Quotes by Neal A. Maxwell More Quotes From Neal A. Maxwell Education brightens a darkened world. Neal A. Maxwell world Pray for me to learn quickly what I need to learn. Neal A. Maxwell pray-for-me praying needs Even the good can become careless without the Lord's being there to chasten. Neal A. Maxwell careless being-there lord 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! Neal A. Maxwell splendid ifs people Why is it that for many persons changing others is so exciting and so relevant, while changing oneself is so boring and irrelevant? Neal A. Maxwell relevant boring exciting Patience is...clearly not fatalistic, shoulder-shrugging resignation. It is the acceptance of a divine rhythm to life; it is obedience prolonged. Patience stoutly resists pulling up the daisies to see how the roots are doing. Neal A. Maxwell obedience acceptance roots The doctrine of foreordination is not a doctrine of repose; instead, it is a doctrine for second- and third-milers, and it will draw out of them the last full measure of devotion. It is a doctrine for the deep believer but it will bring only scorn from the skeptic. Neal A. Maxwell doctrine lasts devotion Ultimate hope and daily grumpiness are not reconcilable. Neal A. Maxwell grumpiness ultimate The flame of family can warm us and at the same time be a perpetual pilot light to rekindle us. Neal A. Maxwell pilots flames light So much depends, therefore, upon our maintaining gospel perspective in the midst of ordinariness, the pressures of temptation, tribulation, deprivation, and the cares of the world. Neal A. Maxwell perspective temptation world Blessed is he who will not be offended Neal A. Maxwell offended blessed Oh, how great the plan of our God! Neal A. Maxwell plans Thus it is that our faith and trust in our Heavenly Father, so far as this mortal experience is concerned, consists not simply of faith and gladness that He exists, but is also a faith and trust that, if we are humble, He will tutor us, aiding our acquisition of needed attributes and experiences while we are in mortality. We trust not only the Designer but also His design of life itself, including our portion thereof! Neal A. Maxwell design humble father Repentance is a rescuing, not a dour, doctrine. Neal A. Maxwell doctrine repentance 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 acts-of-service genuine calling Every dimension of the gospel is relevant to one or more of our social and political problems of our time. Neal A. Maxwell dimensions political problem If the Church were not true, our enemies would be bored rather than threatened, and acquiescent rather than anxious. Hell is moved only when things move heavenward. Neal A. Maxwell bored enemy moving We are in bondage to that which overcomes us. See also 2 Peter 2:19. Neal A. Maxwell peter bondage overcoming 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. Neal A. Maxwell adversity giving needs When, as President Joseph F. Smith said, we "catch a spark from the awakened memories of the immortal soul, "let us be quietly grateful. When of great truths we can say "I know," that powerful spiritual witness may also carry with it the sense of our having known before. With rediscovery, we are really saying "I know - again!" Neal A. Maxwell powerful spiritual memories
