Neal A. Maxwell Quotes about Soul

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The soul is like a violin string: it makes music only when it is stretched.

The soul is like a violin string: it makes music only when it is stretched.

Neal A. Maxwell

Soul, Violin, Strings

God, as a loving Father, will stretch our souls at times. The soul is like a violin string: it makes music only when it is stretched. . . . God will tutor us by trying us because He loves us, not because of indifference!

Neal A. Maxwell

Father, Lds, Soul

The cavity which suffering carves into our souls will one day also be the receptacle of joy.

Neal A. Maxwell

Joy, Soul, Suffering

The harrowing of the soul can be like the harrowing of the soil; to increase the yield, things are turned upside down.

Neal A. Maxwell

Yield, Soul, Soil

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

Ultimate hope constitutes the anchor of the soul.

Neal A. Maxwell

Anchors, Soul, Ultimate

Neal A. Maxwell (1999). “One More Strain of Praise”, Deseret Book Company

Occasionally some individuals let the seeming ordinariness of life dampen their spirits. Though actually coping and growning, others lack the quiet, inner-soul satisfaction that can steady them, and are experiencing instead, a lingering sense that there is something more important they should be doing . . .as if what is quietly achieved in righteous individual living or in parenthood are not sufficiently spectacular.

Neal A. Maxwell

Soul, Important, Satisfaction

Endurance involves much more than putting up with a situation; Patient Endurance is more than pacing up and down within the cell of circumstance. True Enduring represents not merely the passage of time, . . . but the Passage of Soul.

Neal A. Maxwell

Cells, Soul, Endurance

There are certain mortal moments and minutes that matter. Certain hingepoints in the history of each human. Some seconds are so decisive they shrink the soul, while others are spent, so as to stretch the soul.

Neal A. Maxwell

Choices, Soul, Matter

We tend to think of consecration only as yielding up, when divinely directed, our material possessions. But ultimate consecration is the yielding up of oneself to God. Heart, soul, and mind were the encompassing words of Christ in describing the first commandment, which is constantly, not periodically, operative (see Matt. 22:37). If kept, then our performances will, in turn, be fully consecrated for the lasting welfare of our souls (see 2 Ne. 32:9).

Neal A. Maxwell

Heart, Thinking, Soul

Mercy can purge the soul of sin, making room for a fresh start. Truth is vital in order that we have an unvarying standard by which to determine what we are to be and to do and what we are to rid ourselves of. All the cardinal virtues, therefore, carry their own intrinsic as well as outward reward. A merciful man does do good to his own soul.

Neal A. Maxwell

Men, Order, Soul

I thank the Savior personally; for bearing all which I added to His hemorrhaging at every pore for all humanity in Gethsemane. I thank Him for bearing what I added to the decibels of His piercing soul cry atop Calvary.

Neal A. Maxwell

Soul, Humanity, Piercings

There are also flat periods in life which may well be the periods during which-before new lessons come- the past lessons of life are allowed to seep, quietly and deeply, into the marrow of the soul. These outwardly flat periods, when enduring well may not seem very purposeful,, are probably the times when needed attitudinal alignments are quietly occurring.

Neal A. Maxwell

Life Lesson, Past, Soul

Spent time-like a spent bullet-tells us much about its "processor." for we see not only the residual slug, but indicators of how spent time is grooved by a man's soul, a reliable indicator of what a man is like.

Neal A. Maxwell

Time, Men, Soul