More Quotes by Neal A. Maxwell
The soul is like a violin string: it makes music only when it is stretched.
Satan delights to have us put ourselves down. Self-contempt is of Satan. There is no such thing in heaven.
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.
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.
The winds of tribulation, which blow out some men's candles of commitment, only fan the fires of faith of others.
Never give up what you want most for what you want today.
To be cheerful when others are in despair, to keep the faith when others falter, to be true even when we feel forsaken—all of these are deeply desired outcomes during the deliberate, divine tutorials which God gives to us—because He loves us. These learning experiences must not be misread as divine indifference. Instead, such tutorials are a part of the divine unfolding.
Coming unto the Lord is not a negotiation, but a surrender.
Long ago when a child lay in a manger, a special star appeared. It didn't just show up that evening. It had to have been placed in its orbit centuries before in a trajectory that would make it appear at that special moment of time to announce the birth of a special child. Just as there is divine design in the universe, so each of us has been placed in our own orbits in this life to love, to serve, to help light the world.
If, in the end, you have not chosen Jesus Christ it will not matter what you have chosen.
