The "new" in us is bound to notice the "old" that remains. Neal A. Maxwell More Quotes by Neal A. Maxwell More Quotes From Neal A. Maxwell 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. Neal A. Maxwell struggle self worry We may never become accustomed to untrue and unjust criticism of us but we ought not to be immobilized by it. Neal A. Maxwell unjust-criticism accustomed may Beware not to get caught up in the thick of thin things. Neal A. Maxwell caught-up caught thick C. S. Lewis pointed out that some people are angry with God for His not existing, and others for His existing but for failing to do as mortals would have Him do. Instead of such childishness, we are urged to know God and to learn of His attributes. Neal A. Maxwell failing learning people The cavity which suffering carves into our souls will one day also be the receptacle of joy. Neal A. Maxwell soul suffering joy We are so busy constantly checking our own temperatures, we fail to notice the burning fevers of others. Neal A. Maxwell temperature fever burning Man can learn self-discipline without becoming ascetic; he can be wise without waiting to be old; he can be influential without waiting for status. Man can sharpen his ability to distinguish between matters of principle and matters of preference, but only if we have a wise interplay between time and truth, between minutes and morality. Neal A. Maxwell learning wise time It is so easy to be confrontive without being informative; indignant without being intelligent; impulsive without being insightful. Neal A. Maxwell insightful intelligent power So it is that real, personal sacrifice never was placing an animal on the altar. Instead, it is a willingness to put the animal in us upon the altar and letting it be consumed! Such is the 'sacrifice unto the Lord... of a broken heart and a contrite spirit,' (D&C 59:8), a prerequisite to taking up the cross, while giving 'away all [our] sins' in order to 'know God' (Alma 22:18) for the denial of self precedes the full acceptance of Him. Neal A. Maxwell real acceptance heart The laughter of the world is merely loneliness pathetically trying to reassure itself. Neal A. Maxwell lds laughter loneliness Clearly, when we baptize, our eyes should gaze beyond the baptismal font to the holy temple. The great garner into which the sheaves should be gathered is the holy temple. Neal A. Maxwell fonts temples eye Patient endurance permits us to cling to our faith in the Lord and our faith in His timing when we are being tossed about by the surf of circumstance. Even when a seeming undertow grasps us, somehow, in the tumbling, we are being carried forward, though battered and bruised. Neal A. Maxwell surf tumbling endurance All crosses are easier to carry when we keep moving. Neal A. Maxwell adversity missionary moving The great challenge is to refuse to let the bad things that happen to us do bad things to us. That is the crucial difference between adversity and tragedy. Neal A. Maxwell adversity differences challenges In a 'wheat and tares' world, how unusually blessed faithful members are to have the precious and constant gift of the Holy Ghost with reminders of what is right and of the covenants we have made. 'For behold, ... the Holy Ghost ... will show unto you all things what ye should do.' (2 Ne. 32:5.) Whatever the decibels of decadence, these need not overwhelm the still, small voice! Some of the best sermons we will ever hear will be thus prompted from the pulpit of memory—to an audience of one! Neal A. Maxwell voice blessed memories 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 they [Stephen and Paul] now both twain Holy Saints in heaven, and shall continue there friends for ever, so I verily trust and . . . pray, that though your lordships have now here in earth been judges to my condemnation, we may yet hereafter in heaven merrily all meet together, to our everlasting salvation. Neal A. Maxwell clothes judging heaven We must not fail, individually, for if we fail, we fail twice - for ourselves and for those who could have been helped, if we had done our duty. Neal A. Maxwell failure failing done The truth is that not yet usually means never. Trying to run away from the responsibility to decide about Christ is childish. Pilate sought to refuse responsibility for deciding about Christ, but Pilate's hands were never dirtier than just after he had washed them. Neal A. Maxwell responsibility running mean Personal, spiritual symmetry emerges only from the shaping of prolonged obedience. Twigs are bent, not snapped into shape. Neal A. Maxwell obedience shapes spiritual How good you and I get at repenting will determine how good life is. Neal A. Maxwell good-life missionary life-is
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