We can't dwell upon another's ingratitude without using up our time and talents unprofitably. — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
For the faithful, our finest hours are sometimes during or just following our darkest hours. — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
The flame of family can warm us and at the same time be a perpetual pilot light to rekindle us. — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
“People who spend their time searching for feet of clay will miss not only the heavens wherein God moves in His majesty… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
Every dimension of the gospel is relevant to one or more of our social and political problems of our time. — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
“Though events set up the defining moments which can evoke profiles in righteousness, outward commotions cannot excuse any failure of inward resolve,… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
If we spent as much time lifting our children as we do criticizing them, how effectively we could help them to see… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
When we rejoice in beautiful scenery, great art, and great music, it is but the flexing of instincts acquired in another place… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
Unproductive worry - like Parkinson's proverbial law - tends to expand to fill the time available. — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
“In some precious and personal moments there are brief, sudden surges of recognition of an immortal insight, a doctrinal deja vu. These… — 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
Man can learn self-discipline without becoming ascetic; he can be wise without waiting to be old; he can be influential without waiting… — 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
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
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
Though we have rightly applauded our ancestors for their spiritual achievements (and do not and must not discount them now), those of… — 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
Men's and nations' finest hour consist of those moments when extraordinary challenge is met by extraordinary response. Hence in those darkest hours,… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
We can be of so much service to others in many thou-shalt ways. Of course, the problem is that rendering such service… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
Walking and overcoming by faith is not easy. For one thing, the dimension of time constantly constrains our perspective. Likewise, the world… — 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
The Lord knows our bearing capacity, both as to coping and to comprehending, and He will not give us more to bear… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
Time is clearly not our natural dimension. Thus it is that we are never really at home in time. Alternately, we find… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
Meanwhile, spiritual submissiveness brings about the wiser use of our time, talents, and gifts as compared with our laboring diligently but conditionally… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
At times God's best pupils experience the most rigorous and continuous courses. Eventually those who prove to be men of Christ will… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
Obviously, family values mirror our personal priorities. Given the gravity of current conditions, would parents be willing to give up just one… — 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
