Quotes by Neal A. Maxwell

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

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

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

“Elder Maxwell on Wintry DoctrinesElder Maxwell said that if we are serious about our discipleship Jesus will eventually request each of us to do those very things which are most difficult for us to...”

“Perfect love is perfectly patient.”

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

“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”

“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 stret...”

“Faith in God includes Faith in God's timing.”

“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...”

“Discouragement is not the absence of adequacy but the absence of courage.”

“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 re...”

“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...”

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

“A patient willingness to defer dividends is a hallmark of individual maturity.”

“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, r...”

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

“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...”

“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 bestbetter than does God. Or, at least, we are assertin...”

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