Quotes from Neal A. Maxwell

Ultimate hope and daily grumpiness are not reconcilable.

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

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

Don't fear, just live right.

Do not write a check with your tongue that your actions cannot cash.

It is so easy to be confrontive without being informative; indignant without being intelligent; impulsive without being insightful.

How can we truly understand who we are unless we know who we were and what we have the power to become?

As we come closer to Him, we not only "stand all amazed"-we even kneel all amazed!

Any assessment of where we stand in relationship to Him tells us that we do not stand at all. We kneel.

Pure religion is having the courage to do what is right and let the consequence follow.

A society which permits anything will eventually lose everything.

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

Though we have rightly applauded our ancestors for their spiritual achievements ... those of us who prevail today will have done no small thing.

Personal, spiritual symmetry emerges only from the shaping of prolonged obedience. Twigs are bent, not snapped into shape.

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.

When in situations of stress we wonder if there is any more in us to give, we can be comforted to know that God, who knows our capacity perfectly, placed us here to succeed

How good you and I get at repenting will determine how good life is.

The mortal experience . . . is not like a college course which we can passively audit. Instead, we are taking life's course for credit and there are no summers off - not even semester breaks.

God does not begin by asking our ability, only our availability, and if we prove our dependability, He will increase our capability.

The good life is the best preparation for bad times.

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.

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!

For the faithful, our finest hours are sometimes during or just following our darkest hours.

We can't dwell upon another's ingratitude without using up our time and talents unprofitably.