Neal A. Maxwell Quotes

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.

The soul is like a violin string: it makes music only when it is stretched.

If, in the end, you have not chosen Jesus Christ it will not matter what you have chosen.

The more seriously we work on our own imperfections, the less we are judgemental of the imperfections of others.

We should certainly count our blessings, but we should also make our blessings count.

No love is ever wasted. Its worth does not lie in reciprocity.

The submission of one's will is really the only uniquely personal thing we have to place on God's altar. The many other things we 'give' are actually the things He has already given or loaned to us.

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

Trials and tribulations tend to squeeze the artificiality out of us, leaving the essence of what we really are and clarifying what we really yearn for.

You rock a sobbing child without wondering if today's world is passing you by, because you know you hold tomorrow tightly in your arms.

When we rejoice in beautiful scenery, great art, and great music, it is but the flexing of instincts acquired in another place and another time.

It is our job to lift others up, not to size them up.

The hardest work you and I will ever do is to put off our selfishness. It is heavy lifting!

A society which permits anything will eventually lose everything.

Never give up what you want most for what you want today.

How could there be refining fires without our enduring some heat?

When great individuals move so marvelously along the straight and narrow path, it is unseemly of us to call attention to the fact that one of their shoelaces is untied as they make the journey.

Let us have integrity and not write checks with our tongues which our conduct cannot cash.

Each of us is an innkeeper who decides if there is room for Jesus!

Thus worshiping, serving, studying, praying, each in its own way squeezes selfishness out of us; pushes aside our preoccupations with the things of the world.

If we spent as much time lifting our children as we do criticizing them, how effectively we could help them to see themselves in a more positive light!

Many of those engaged in a lemming-like march to the sea are proud of their individualism.

Joshua didn't say choose you next year whom you will serve; he spoke of "this day," while there is still daylight and before the darkness becomes more and more normal.

Though we live in a failing world, we have not been sent here to fail.

If the kingdom of God is not first, it doesn't matter what's second.

We cannot repent for someone else. But we can forgive someone else, refusing to hold hostage those whom the Lord seeks to set free!

Faith in God includes Faith in God's timing.

Listening is one of the forms of love.

In contrast to the path of selfishness, there is no room for road rage on the straight and narrow way.

What we insistently desire, over time, is what we become.

God's extraordinary work is most often done by ordinary people in the seeming obscurity of a home and family.

Love, patience, and meekness can be just as contagious as rudeness and crudeness.

Consecration thus constitutes the only unconditional surrender which is also a total victory!

We are often not only to slow to get on our knees, but to quick to rise from them.

All crosses are easier to carry when we keep moving.

Good homes are still the best source of good humans.

In Gospel grammar, death is not an exclamation point, merely a comma.

The Lord doesn't ask about your ability, only your availability; and, if you prove your dependability, the Lord will increase your capability.

The imperfections of others never release us from the need to work on our own shortcomings.

Coming unto the Lord is not a negotiation, but a surrender.

On the straight and narrow path, there are simply no corners to be cut.

Do not let the future be held hostage by the past

It is better to trust and sometimes be disappointed than to be forever mistrusting and be right occasionally.

Real hope is much more than wishful musing. It stiffens, not slackens, the spiritual spine.

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.

Men and Women of Christ magnify their callings without magnifying themselves.

The more quickly we loosen our grip on the things of the world the more firmly we can take hold of the things of eternity.

You must not mistake passing local cloud cover, for general darkness.

We cannot improve the world if we are conformed to the world.

Perfect love is perfectly patient.