Quotes from Neal A. Maxwell

Every dimension of the gospel is relevant to one or more of our social and political problems of our time.

The flame of family can warm us and at the same time be a perpetual pilot light to rekindle us.

Unproductive worry - like Parkinson's proverbial law - tends to expand to fill the time available.

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

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

The issue for us is trusting God enough to trust also His timing. If we can truly believe He has our welfare at heart, may we not let His plans unfold as He thinks best?

Power is most safe with those who are not in love with it!

Love is never wasted, even if it is not reciprocated.

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

The charity of good women is such that their 'love makes no parade'; they are not glad 'when others go wrong'; they are too busy serving to sit statusfully about, waiting to be offended.

There will be many fine and wonderful men and women of all races and creeds-and of no religious creeds at all-who will lead decent and useful lives.

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

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

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

Anger should never be an overnight guest.

Even if work were not an economic necessity, it is a spiritual necessity.

At the center of our agency is our freedom to form a healthy attitude toward whatever circumstances we are placed in!

Truly we work and live on a streetful of splendid people, whom we are to love and serve even if they are uninterested in us!

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.

Discouragement is not the absence of adequacy but the absence of courage.

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

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

Education brightens a darkened world.

We must not fail, individually, for if we fail, we fail twice - for ourselves and for those who could have been helped, if we had done our duty.