Our inspired Constitution is wisely designed to protect from excesses of political power, but it can do little to protect us from… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
God's extraordinary work is most often done by ordinary people in the seeming obscurity of a home and family. — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
Although goal setting can clearly be overdone, only a few people are overly involved with goals and goal setting; most people do… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
. . . just as God cannot look upon sin with the least degree of allowance, as we become more like Him,… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
Stubborn selfishness leads otherwise good people to fight over herds, patches of sand, and strippings of milk. All this results from what… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
No "natural" resource is more precious and to be used more wisely than time. These mortal moments matter more than we know.… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
Ironically, as some people become harder, they use softer words to describe dark deeds. This, too, is part of being sedated by… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
There is also the very real possibility that, in the justice of God, one of the reasons He uses the weak and… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
Progress is measured by milestones. What many good people lack are markers that might tell them how they are actually doing. Goals… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
I fear that, as conditions worsen, many will react to the failures of too much government by calling for even more government.… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
We...live in a world that is too prone to the tasteless, and we need to provide an opportunity to cultivate a taste… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
It is understandable how some people could give way to this kind of pervasive pessimism, but we speak of a gospel which… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
I have on my office wall a wise and useful reminder by Anne Morrow Lindbergh concerning one of the realities of life.… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
Life is an 'open-book' exam, but the problem is that most of the students don't have the 'book', or refuse to open… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
C. S. Lewis pointed out that some people are angry with God for His not existing, and others for His existing but… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
Promptings for us to do good come from the Holy Ghost. These promptings nudge us further along the straight and narrow path… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
When at length we tire of putting people down, this self-inflicted fatigue can give way to the invigorating calisthenics of lifting people… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
Truly we work and live on a streetful of splendid people, whom we are to love and serve even if they are… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
Sometimes the best people... have the worst experiences... because they are ready to learn — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
Clearly, when we baptize, our eyes should gaze beyond the baptismal font to the holy temple. The great garner into which the sheaves should… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
We should not assume; however, that just because something is unexplainable by us, it is unexplainable. — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
Naive optimism and pervasive pessimism are both to be avoided, therefore. It's not an easy balance to maintain, to be asked to work away… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
Occasionally some individuals let the seeming ordinariness of life dampen their spirits. Though actually coping and growning, others lack the quiet, inner-soul satisfaction that… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
The acceptance of the reality that we are in the Lord's loving hands is only a recognition that we have never really been anywhere… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
We can't dwell upon another's ingratitude without using up our time and talents unprofitably. — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
The winds of tribulation, which blow out some men's candles of commitment, only fan the fires of faith of others. — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
Frequently, we busily search for group service projects, which are surely needed and commendable, when quiet, personal service is also urgently needed. Sometimes the… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
The cumulative weight of all mortal sins--past, present, and future--pressed upon that perfect, sinless, and sensitive Soul! All our infirmities and sicknesses were somehow,… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
“When we feel so alone, we cannot presume to teach him who, at the apogee of his agony, trod “the winepress alone” anything about… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
