Neal A. Maxwell
Neal A. Maxwell
Neal Ash Maxwellwas an apostle and a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saintsfrom 1981 until his death...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionClergyman
Date of Birth6 July 1926
CountryUnited States of America
Neal A. Maxwell quotes about
moral-fiber people political
Our inspired Constitution is wisely designed to protect from excesses of political power, but it can do little to protect us from the excesses of appetite or from individual indifference to great principles or institutions. Any significant unraveling of the moral fiber of the American people, therefore, finally imperils the Constitution.
oasis water causes
Those few members who desert the cause are abandoning an oasis to search for water in the desert.
availability lord dependability
The Lord doesn't ask about your ability, only your availability; and, if you prove your dependability, the Lord will increase your capability.
plans
Oh, how great the plan of our God!
selfishness ordinary sin
Selfishness is much more than an ordinary problem because it activates all the cardinal sins! It is the detonator in the breaking of the Ten Commandments.
hammers anvils needs
Sometimes we are so busy being the hammer or the anvil, that we forget who really needs the shaping.
temptation entertaining ifs
If we entertain temptations, soon they begin entertaining us!
knees
We are often not only to slow to get on our knees, but to quick to rise from them.
who-we-are knows
How can we truly understand who we are unless we know who we were and what we have the power to become?
trials said fairs
A friend of mine who passed through a most severe trial, when I discussed it with him, he said simply, if it’s fair, it isn’t a trial.
littering pathways talent
We can tell much by what we have already willing discarded along the pathway of discipleship. It is the only pathway where littering is permissible, even encouraged. In the early stages, the debris left behind includes the grosser sins of commission. Later debris differs; things begin to be discarded which have caused the misuse or underuse of our time and talent.
agony empathy divinity
Empathy during agony is a portion of divinity.
yield soul soil
The harrowing of the soul can be like the harrowing of the soil; to increase the yield, things are turned upside down.
cycling hands ties
Time Management Tips: The perpetual processing of the same temptation is both dangerous and time-wasting. Cycling and recycling the same temptation (instead of rejecting such blandishment out of hand) is not only to risk one's soul, again and again, but is to bring on fatigue, so that the Adversary may be able to do indirectly what we will not let him do directly. A lack of decisiveness in dealing with temptation ties up our thought processes and prevents us from doing good with the time allotted to us.