More Quotes by Neal A. Maxwell
A society which permits anything will eventually lose everything.
It is extremely important for you to believe in yourselves, not only for what you are now, but for what you have the power to become.
We can tell much by what we have already willing discarded along the pathway of discipleship. It is the only pathway where littering is permissible, even encouraged. In the early stages, the debris left behind includes the grosser sins of commission. Later debris differs; things begin to be discarded which have caused the misuse or underuse of our time and talent.
If, in the end, you have not chosen Jesus Christ it will not matter what you have chosen.
The soul is like a violin string: it makes music only when it is stretched.
We cannot lead or draw others to Christ unless we stand closer to Him than they do.
Coming unto the Lord is not a negotiation, but a surrender.
During our mortal schooling in submissiveness, we will see the visible crosses that some carry, but other crosses will go unseen. A few individuals may appear to have no trials at all, which, if it were so, would be a trial in itself. Indeed, if, as do trees, our souls had rings to measure the years of greatest personal growth, the wide rings would likely reflect the years of greatest moisture-but from tears, not rainfall.
Time is clearly not our natural dimension. Thus it is that we are never really at home in time. Alternately, we find ourselves wishing to hasten the passage of time or to hold back the dawn. We can do neither, of course, but whereas the fish is at home in water, we are clearly not at home in time--because we belong to eternity.
Satan delights to have us put ourselves down. Self-contempt is of Satan. There is no such thing in heaven.
