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“Sometimes we are so busy being the hammer or the anvil, that we forget who really needs the shaping.” quote by Neal A. Maxwell — Download Open image

“Sometimes we are so busy being the hammer or the anvil, that we forget who really needs the shaping.”

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We should not assume; however, that just because something is unexplainable by us, it is unexplainable.

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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 in the Ninevehs of our lives without being so conscious of the coming cataclysm that we are not serious citizens of our communities and nations. By living and sharing the gospel of Jesus Christ, we are…

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We can't dwell upon another's ingratitude without using up our time and talents unprofitably.

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The winds of tribulation, which blow out some men's candles of commitment, only fan the fires of faith of others.

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Power is most safe with those who are not in love with it!

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Ultimate hope constitutes the anchor of the soul.

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Frequently, we busily search for group service projects, which are surely needed and commendable, when quiet, personal service is also urgently needed. Sometimes the completing of an occasional group service project ironically salves our consciences when, in fact, we are constantly surrounded by a multitude of opportunities for individual service. In serving, as in true worship, we need to do…

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It is not only prayer that gives God glory but work. Smitting on an anvil, sawing a beam, whitewashing a wall, driving horses, sweeping, scouring, everything gives God some glory if being in his grace you do it as your duty. To go to communion worthily gives God great glory, but a man with a dungfork in his hand, a…

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The first time I saw nitroglycerine was in the beginning of the Crimean War. Professor Zinin in St. Petersburg exhibited some to my father…

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Use truth as your anvil, nonviolence as your hammer and anything that does not stand the test when it is brought to the anvil…

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Let me think... I wonder if an anvil will drop like an apple?

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Hammer the iron that lies on your anvil instead of daydreaming about working silver.

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Many authors write like amateur blacksmiths making their first horseshoe; the clank of the anvil, the stench of the scorched leather apron, the sparks and the cursing are palpable, and this appeals to those who rank "sincerity" very high. Nabokov is more like a master swordsmith making a fine blade; nothing is amiss, nothing is too much, there is no…

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Let me twine Mine arms about that body, where against My grained ash an hundred times hath broke And scarr'd the moon with splinters: here I clip The anvil of my sword, and do contest As hotly and as nobly with thy love As ever in ambitious strength I did Contend against thy valour. Know thou first, I loved the…

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I had lost too much of the heart and all the faith needed to stay afloat in a job where every human encounter felt…

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Those who will find here a hold for their souls, an anvil for their hands, and vitality for their hearts, will build both their…

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Death is not a blotting-out of existence, a final escape from life; nor is death the door to immortality. He who has fled his Self in earthly joys will not recapture It amidst the gossamer charms of an astral world. There he merely accumulates finer perceptions and more sensitive responses to the beautiful and the good, which are one. It…

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We are to regard the mind, not as a piece of iron to be laid upon the anvil and hammered into any shape, nor as a block of marble in which we are to find the statue by removing the rubbish, nor as a receptacle into which knowledge may be poured; but as a flame that is to be fed,…

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