Quotes from Neal A. Maxwell

Faith in God includes Faith in God's timing.

One day the faithful will have it all!

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

Our journey is demanding enough that the need for reassurance as well as reminders is constant.

Don't fear, just live right.

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

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

Patience is tied very closely to faith in our Heavenly Father. Actually, when we are unduly impatient, we are suggesting that we know what is best—better than does God. Or, at least, we are asserting that our timetable is better than His. We can grow in faith only if we are willing to wait patiently for God's purposes and patterns to unfold in our lives, on His timetable.

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.

Faith in God includes Faith in God's timing.

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.

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

If we are serious about our discipleship, Jesus will eventually request each of us to do those very things which are most difficult for us to do.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Some mothers in today's world feel "cumbered" by home duties and are thus attracted by other more "romantic" challenges. Such women could make the same error of perspective that Martha made. The woman, for instance, who deserts the cradle in order to help defend civilization against the barbarians may well later meet, among the barbarians, her own neglected child.

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

Empathy during agony is a portion of divinity.

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

Perfect love is perfectly patient.