"Sometimes we are so busy being the hammer……" — Neal A. Maxwell
"Sometimes we are so busy being the hammer or the anvil, that we forget who really needs the shaping."
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231 Quotes by Neal A. Maxwell
Neal A. Maxwell has 231 quotes on this site.
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At the center of our agency is our freedom to form a healthy attitude toward whatever circumstances we are placed…
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During our mortal schooling in submissiveness, we will see the visible crosses that some carry, but other crosses will go…
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If one is devoid of hope and thanksgiving, he cannot for long remain sinless, for he will, in despair, have…
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The enlarging of the soul requires not only some remodeling, but some excavating.
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Regarding trials, including of our faith and patience, there are no exemptions-only variations.
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Don't fear, just live right.
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In contrast to the path of selfishness, there is no room for road rage on the straight and narrow way.
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We are vulnerable if we can be taken by a wave of emotion, invaded by an invidious impulse, roughed up…
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Ironically, brothers and sisters, the natural man who is so very selfish in so many ordinary ways is strangely unselfish…
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A patient willingness to defer dividends is a hallmark of individual maturity.
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Looking for honest ways to lift one another would . . . be more beneficial to our own self-esteem, for…
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Mother lode of learning.
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More Anvil Quotes
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We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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The anvil of justice is planted firm, and fate who makes the sword does the forging in advance.
— Aeschylus
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You must either conquer and rule or serve and lose, suffer or triumph, be the anvil or the hammer.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Use truth as your anvil, nonviolence as your hammer and anything that does not stand the test when it is…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Hockey belongs to the Cartoon Network, where a person can be pancaked by an ACME anvil, then expanded - accordion-style…
— Steve Rushin
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Iron till it be thoroughly heated is incapable to be wrought; so God sees good to cast some men into…
— Anne Bradstreet
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One forges one's style on the terrible anvil of daily deadlines.
— Emile Zola
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We're going to hammer guns on the anvil of relentless legislative strategy! We're going to beat guns into submission!
— Charles Schumer
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Golf puts a man's character on the anvil and his richest qualities - patience, poise, restraint - to the flame.
— Billy Casper
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As iron is fashioned by fire and on the anvil, so in the fire of suffering and under the weight…
— Madeleine Sophie Barat
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Harsh counsels have no effect; they are like hammers which are always repulsed by the anvil.
— Claude Adrien Helvetius
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Every man who strikes blows for power, for influence, for institutions, for the right, must be just as good an…
— J. G. Holland
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