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More Quotes by Neal A. Maxwell
We should certainly count our blessings, but we should also make our blessings count.
When we are unduly impatient with an omniscient God's timing, we really are suggesting that we know what's best. Strange isn't it-we who wear wrist watches seek to counsel Him who oversees cosmic clocks and calendars.
It is our job to lift others up, not to size them up.
Men's and nations' finest hour consist of those moments when extraordinary challenge is met by extraordinary response. Hence in those darkest hours, we must light our individual candles rather than vying with others to call attention to the enveloping darkness. Our indignation about injustice should lead to illumination, for if it does not, we are only adding to the despair-and the moment of gravest danger is when there is so little light that darkness seems normal!
It is extremely important for you to believe in yourselves, not only for what you are now, but for what you have the power to become.
The great challenge is to refuse to let the bad things that happen to us do bad things to us. That is the crucial difference between adversity and tragedy.
Faith in God includes Faith in God's timing.
Satan delights to have us put ourselves down. Self-contempt is of Satan. There is no such thing in heaven.
The more seriously we work on our own imperfections, the less we are judgemental of the imperfections of others.
We can tell much by what we have already willing discarded along the pathway of discipleship. It is the only pathway where littering is permissible, even encouraged. In the early stages, the debris left behind includes the grosser sins of commission. Later debris differs; things begin to be discarded which have caused the misuse or underuse of our time and talent.
