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 do.This was what he came to call the wintry doctrine at the funeral of a young father in 1996 he put it this way There are in the gospel warm and cuddly doctrines and then there are some that are just outright wintry doctrines one of them frankly is that we cannot approach real consecration without passing through appropriate clinical experiences because we dont achieve consecration in the abstract. sometimes therefore the best people have the worst experiences because they are the most ready to learn. (Bruce C. Hafen, The Story of A Disciples Life: Preparing the Biography of Neal A. Maxwell, p. 14)
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Neal A. Maxwell was a 20th-century American scholar, educator, and religious leader. Neal Ash Maxwell was an American scholar, educator, and religious leader who served as a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1981 until his death in 2004. Read more on Wikipedia →