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“Just as doubt, despair, and desensitization go together, so do faith, hope, and charity. The latter, however, must be carefully and constantly nurtured, whereas despair, like dandelions, needs so little encouragement to sprout and spread. Despair comes so naturally to the natural man!”
― Neal A. Maxwell

“Discouragement is not the absence of adequacy but the absence of courage.”
― Neal A. Maxwell

“The acceptance of the reality that we are in the Lord's loving hands is only a recognition that we have never really been anywhere else.”
― Neal A. Maxwell, The Neal A. Maxwell Quote Book

“Even if work were not an economic necessity, it is a spiritual necessity.”
― Neal A. Maxwell

“When we rejoice in beautiful scenery, great art, and great music, it is but the flexing of instincts acquired in another place and another time.”
― Neal A. Maxwell

“I testify that He is utterly incomparable in what He is, what He knows, what He has accomplished and what He has experienced. Yet, movingly, He calls us His Friends”
― Neal A. Maxwell

“Coming unto the Lord is not a negotiation, but a surrender.”
― Neal A. Maxwell

“Empathy during agony is a portion of divinity.”
― Neal A. Maxwell

“We cannot improve the world if we are conformed to the world.”
― Neal A. Maxwell

“Some mothers in today's world feel "cumbered" by home duties and are thus attracted by other more "romantic" challenges. Such women could make the same error of perspective that Martha made. The woman, for instance, who deserts the cradle in order to help defend civilization against the barbarians may well later meet, among the barbarians, her own neglected child.”
― Neal A. Maxwell, Wherefore Ye Must Press Forward

“No love is ever wasted. Its worth does not lie in reciprocity. ”
― Neal A. Maxwell

“If, in the end, you have not chosen Jesus Christ it will not matter what you have chosen.”
― Neal A. Maxwell

“If we are serious about our discipleship, Jesus will eventually request each of us to do those very things which are most difficult for us to do.”
― Neal A. Maxwell, The Neal A. Maxwell Quote Book

“The submission of one's will is really the only uniquely personal thing we have to place on God's altar. The many other things we 'give' are actually the things He has already given or loaned to us.”
― Neal A. Maxwell

“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.”
― Neal A. Maxwell

“The laughter of the world is merely loneliness pathetically trying to reassure itself.”
― Neal A. Maxwell, The Neal A. Maxwell Quote Book

“The FUTURE of this world has long been DECLARED; the final outcome between GOOD and evil is already KNOWN. There is absolutely no question as to who WINS because the VICTORY has already been posted on the SCOREBOARD. The only really strange thing is all of this is that we are still down here on the FIELD trying to decide which TEAM’S JERSEY we want to wear!”
― Jeffrey R. Holland