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More Quotes by Neal A. Maxwell
We should certainly count our blessings, but we should also make our blessings count.
Time is clearly not our natural dimension. Thus it is that we are never really at home in time. Alternately, we find ourselves wishing to hasten the passage of time or to hold back the dawn. We can do neither, of course, but whereas the fish is at home in water, we are clearly not at home in time--because we belong to eternity.
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.
I fear that, as conditions worsen, many will react to the failures of too much government by calling for even more government. Then there will be more and more lifeboats launched because fewer and fewer citizens know how to swim. Unlike some pendulums, political pendulums to not swing back automatically; they must be pushed. History is full of instances when people have waited in vain for pendulums to swing back.
Satan delights to have us put ourselves down. Self-contempt is of Satan. There is no such thing in heaven.
The winds of tribulation, which blow out some men's candles of commitment, only fan the fires of faith of others.
Faith in God includes Faith in God's timing.
God does not begin by asking us about our ability, but only about our availability, and if we then prove our dependability, he will increase our capability.
No love is ever wasted. Its worth does not lie in reciprocity.
Sometimes the best people... have the worst experiences... because they are ready to learn
