Neal A. Maxwell

Clergyman

1926-07-06

Quotes by Neal A. Maxwell

• 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 insulating your children from the very things that helped make you what you are.

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• Discouragement is not the absence of adequacy but the absence of courage.

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• Perfect love is perfectly patient.

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• Within what is allotted to us, we can have spiritual contentment.

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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 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.

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• Faith in God includes Faith in God's timing.

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

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

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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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• 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.

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

  Read quote

• Faith in God includes Faith in God's timing.

  Read quote

• Discouragement is not the absence of adequacy but the absence of courage.

  Read quote

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

  Read quote

• Within what is allotted to us, we can have spiritual contentment.

  Read quote

• 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

  Read quote

• 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.

  Read quote

• Perfect love is perfectly patient.

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