Quotes from Neal A. Maxwell

Brigham Young observed, "Man's machinery makes things alike" (JD 9:370), while God gives to seemingly like individuals pleasing differences. Secularism is no friend of righteous individuality.

Mother lode of learning.

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

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

Patience stoutly resists pulling up the daisies to see how the roots are doing!

A patient willingness to defer dividends is a hallmark of individual maturity.

Patience helps us to view imperfections in others more generously to the end that we may learn to be more wise than they have been.

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 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.

In the economy of Heaven, God does not send thunder if a still, small voice is enough, or a prophet if a priest can do the job.

I testify that He is utterly incomparable in what He is, what He knows, what He has accomplished and what He has experienced. Yet, movingly, He calls us His Friends

God will facilitate, but He will not force.

In a very real sense, all we need to know is that God knows all.

Crowds cannot make right what God has declared to be wrong.

God's anger is kindled not because we have harmed him but because we have harmed ourselves.

Of all the errors one could make, God's gospel plan is the wrong thing to be wrong about.

God's grace will cover us like a cloak-enough to provide for survival but too thin to keep out all the cold.

Oh, how great the plan of our God!

Our God does not indulge us, but He is merciful toward our weaknesses as He strives to tutor us.

God is very serious about joy in the lives of His children.

Sometimes, if you're like me, [God] will brace or reprove in a highly personal process not understood or appreciated by those outside the context.

Good homes are still the best source of good humans.

Eventually, there will not be enough prisons if there are not enough good homes.

Daily hope is vital, since the 'Winter Quarters' of our lives are not immediately adjacent to our promised land either. An arduous trek still awaits, but hope spurs weary disciples on.