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Men's and nations' finest hour consist of those moments when extraordinary challenge is met by extraordinary response. Hence in those darkest hours, we must light our individual candles rather than vying with others to call attention to the enveloping darkness. Our indignation about injustice should lead to illumination, for if it does not, we are only adding to the despair-and the moment of gravest danger is when there is so little light that darkness seems normal!
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More Quotes by Neal A. Maxwell
If, in the end, you have not chosen Jesus Christ it will not matter what you have chosen.
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.
Coming unto the Lord is not a negotiation, but a surrender.
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.
We cannot lead or draw others to Christ unless we stand closer to Him than they do.
I fear that, as conditions worsen, many will react to the failures of too much government by calling for even more government. Then there will be more and more lifeboats launched because fewer and fewer citizens know how to swim. Unlike some pendulums, political pendulums to not swing back automatically; they must be pushed. History is full of instances when people have waited in vain for pendulums to swing back.
Never give up what you want most for what you want today.
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.
The winds of tribulation, which blow out some men's candles of commitment, only fan the fires of faith of others.
The more seriously we work on our own imperfections, the less we are judgemental of the imperfections of others.
