The cavity which suffering carves into our souls will one day also be the receptacle of joy. — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
The soul is like a violin string: it makes music only when it is stretched. — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
The harrowing of the soul can be like the harrowing of the soil; to increase the yield, things are turned upside down. — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
I thank the Savior personally; for bearing all which I added to His hemorrhaging at every pore for all humanity in Gethsemane.… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
Spent time-like a spent bullet-tells us much about its "processor." for we see not only the residual slug, but indicators of how… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
God, as a loving Father, will stretch our souls at times. The soul is like a violin string: it makes music only… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
There are certain mortal moments and minutes that matter. Certain hingepoints in the history of each human. Some seconds are so decisive… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
Our goals should stretch us bit by bit. So often when we think we have encountered a ceiling, it is really a… — 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… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
We tend to think of consecration only as yielding up, when divinely directed, our material possessions. But ultimate consecration is the yielding… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
Time Management Tips: The perpetual processing of the same temptation is both dangerous and time-wasting. Cycling and recycling the same temptation (instead… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
The submissive will make it through to that final scene, for the word of God will lead the man and woman of… — 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… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
The enlarging of the soul requires not only some remodeling, but some excavating. — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
A few little flowers will spring up briefly in the dry gulley through which torrents of water pass occasionally. But it is… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
Endurance involves much more than putting up with a situation; Patient Endurance is more than pacing up and down within the cell… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
During our mortal schooling in submissiveness, we will see the visible crosses that some carry, but other crosses will go unseen. A… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
There are also flat periods in life which may well be the periods during which-before new lessons come- the past lessons of… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
When, as President Joseph F. Smith said, we "catch a spark from the awakened memories of the immortal soul, "let us be… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
Mercy can purge the soul of sin, making room for a fresh start. Truth is vital in order that we have an… — 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
