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When at length we tire of putting people down, this self-inflicted fatigue can give way to the invigorating calisthenics of lifting people up.

When at length we tire of putting people down, this self-inflicted fatigue can give way to the invigorating calisthenics of lifting people up.

Neal A. Maxwell
Self, People, Giving
Neal A. Maxwell (1991). “Men and Women of Christ”, Bookcraft Pubs

Those of little faith mistake local cloud cover for general darkness. Keeping spiritually intact results in our keeping precious perspective by seeing "things as they really are."

Neal A. Maxwell
Mistake, Clouds, Perspective

I am as I am, And so is a stone; Them that don't like me, Must leave me alone.

Neal A. Maxwell
Leave Me Alone, Stones, Don't Like Me

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

Neal A. Maxwell
Home, Prison, Enough

Some find it easier to bend their knees than their minds. Exciting exploration is preferred to plodding implementation; speculation seems more fun than consecration, and so is trying to soften the hard doctrines instead of submitting to them. Worse still, by not obeying, these . . . lack real knowing. Lacking real knowing, they cannot defend their faith and may become critics instead of defenders!

Neal A. Maxwell
Faith, Fun, Real

The submissive will make it through to that final scene, for the word of God will lead the man and woman of Christ "in a straight and narrow course across that everlasting gulf of misery . . . and land their souls . . . at the right hand of God in the kingdom, to sit down with Abraham, and Isaac, and with Jacob, and with all our holy fathers" (Helaman 3:30) "who have been ever since the world began . . . to go no more out."

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Father, Men, Hands

The authority of example and considerations of character, unlike pudding, are not whipped up in an instant.

Neal A. Maxwell
Character, Example, Pudding

The doctrine of foreordination is not a doctrine of repose; instead, it is a doctrine for second- and third-milers, and it will draw out of them the last full measure of devotion. It is a doctrine for the deep believer but it will bring only scorn from the skeptic.

Neal A. Maxwell
Doctrine, Lasts, Devotion

The enlarging of the soul requires not only some remodeling, but some excavating.

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Adversity, Soul, Remodeling
Neal A. Maxwell (1991). “Men and Women of Christ”, Bookcraft Pubs

Those who believe for a while make only a brief tour in the kingdom, though thereafter they often feel qualified to inform those who know even less about the Church; but the fact is they were really only tourists - not natives who really knew the kingdom's countryside.

Neal A. Maxwell
Believe, Church, Tourists

The cumulative weight of all mortal sins--past, present, and future--pressed upon that perfect, sinless, and sensitive Soul! All our infirmities and sicknesses were somehow, too, a part of the awful arithmetic of the Atonement. (See Alma 7:11-12; Isa. 53:3-5; Matt. 8:17.) The anguished Jesus not only pled with the Father that the hour and cup might pass from Him, but with this relevant citation. 'And he said, Abba, Father, all things are possible unto thee; take away this cup from me.' (Mark 14:35-36.)

Neal A. Maxwell
Jesus, Father, Past

Pray for me to learn quickly what I need to learn.

Neal A. Maxwell
Needs, Praying, Pray For Me

One simply cannot come to a cause like the kingdom of God, with its celestial concepts, and not appreciate and identify with what Ammon said: "Behold, I say unto you, I cannot say the smallest part which I feel."

Neal A. Maxwell
Appreciation, Appreciate, Causes

Even the good can become careless without the Lord's being there to chasten.

Neal A. Maxwell
Being There, Lord, Careless

It's service, not status, that counts.

Neal A. Maxwell

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