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- "Any task in life is easier if we approach it with the one at a time attitude. ... To cite a whimsical saying; 'If you chase two rabbits, both of them will escape.' No one is adequate to do everything all at once. We have to select what is important
- --Richard L. Evans, Thoughts for One Hundred Days, vol. 4, pp. 89-90
- 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!
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Neal A. Maxwell : American religious leader
Neal Maxwell - Anger should never be an overnight guest.
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Neal A. Maxwell : American religious leader
Neal Maxwell - If you have not chosen the kingdom of God first, it will in the end make no difference what you have chosen instead.
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Neal A. Maxwell : American religious leader
Neal Maxwell - For the faithful, our finest hours are sometimes during or just following our darkest hours.
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Neal A. Maxwell : American religious leader
Neal Maxwell - In racing marathons, one does not see the dropouts make fun of those who continue; failed runners actually cheer on those who continue the race, wishing they were still in it. Not so with the marathon of discipleship in which some dropouts then make fun
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Neal A. Maxwell : American religious leader
Neal Maxwell - 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.
- Neal A. Maxwell
- The great challenge is to refuse to let the bad things that happen to us do bad things to us. That is the crucial difference between adversity and tragedy.
- Neal A. Maxwell
- There is no democracy of facts.
- Neal A. Maxwell
- Sometimes we are so busy being the hammer or the anvil, that we forget who really needs the shaping.
- Neal A. Maxwell
- 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.
- Neal A. Maxwell
- When the real history of mankind is fully disclosed, will it feature the echoes of gunfire or the shaping sound of lullabies? The great armistices made by military men of the peacemaking of women in home and in neighborhoods? Will what happened in cradle
- Neal A. Maxwell
- Letting off steam always produces more heat than light.
- Neal A. Maxwell
- "I am like a huge, rough stone rolling down from a high mountain; and the only polishing I get is when some corner gets rubbed off by coming in contact with something else, striking with accelerated force against religious bigotry, priestcraft, lawy
- Joseph Smith, Nauvoo, Illinois, May 21, 1843, History of the Church, 5:401
- "So where should each of us make our stand? As we demonstrate our devotion to God by our daily acts of righteousness, He can know where we stand. For all of us this life is a time of sifting and refining. We all face trials. Individual members in th
- James E. Faust, "Where Do I Make My Stand?" Ensign, Nov. 2004, 21
- I have always found that when we do the little things correctly, the Lord gives us the strength to accomplish big things... You might not always understand the reasons for some rules or commandments, but if you will follow them even in the little things
- Donald L. Hallstrom, "Friend to Friend: On the Lord's Side," Friend, Sept. 2002, 8