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

“We should certainly count our blessings, but we should also make our blessings count.”
― Neal A. Maxwell

“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.”
― Neal A. Maxwell

“Faith in God includes Faith in God's timing.”
― Neal A. Maxwell

“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

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

“God's extraordinary work is most often done by ordinary people in the seeming obscurity of a home and family.”
― Neal A. Maxwell

“Let us have integrity and not write checks with our tongues which our conduct cannot cash.”
― Neal A. Maxwell

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

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

“Each of us is an innkeeper who decides if there is room for Jesus!”
― Neal A. Maxwell

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

“If the kingdom of God is not first, it doesn't matter what's second.”
― Neal A. Maxwell

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

“Ultimate hope and daily grumpiness are not reconcilable.”
― Neal A. Maxwell

“Never give up what you want most for what you want today.”
― Neal A. Maxwell

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

“Enthusiasm needs to be effective enthusiasm. We must distinguish between the contribution and enthusiasm of the cheerleader and the enthusiasm of the player. While cheerleaders serve an important purpose, the real contest involves players on the field or on the court of life. We must not go through life acting only as enthusiastic cheerleaders available for hire; we must be anxiously and personally engaged.”
― Neal A. Maxwell, Deposition of a Disciple

“We can be walking witnesses and standing sermons to which objective onlookers can say a quiet amen.”
― Neal A. Maxwell, The Neal A. Maxwell Quote Book

“Patience is...clearly not fatalistic, shoulder-shrugging resignation. It is the acceptance of a divine rhythm to life; it is obedience prolonged. Patience stoutly resists pulling up the daisies to see how the roots are doing. ”
― Neal A. Maxwell

“Thus worshiping, serving, studying, praying, each in its own way squeezes selfishness out of us; pushes aside our preoccupations with the things of the world.”
― Neal A. Maxwell

“True discipleship is for volunteers only. Only volunteers will trust the Guide sufficiently to follow Him in the dangerous ascent which only He can lead.”
― Neal A. Maxwell, Not My Will, but Thine

“Repentance is a rescuing, not a dour, doctrine.”
― 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

“In the economy of Heaven, God does not send thunder if a still, small voice is enough, or a prophet if a priest can do the job.”
― Neal A. Maxwell

“We may never become accustomed to untrue and unjust criticism of us but we ought not to be immobilized by it.”
― Neal A. Maxwell

“The true Christian is a communicator.”
― Neal A. Maxwell, All These Things Shall Give Thee Experience

“As you submit your wills to God, you are giving Him the only thing you can actually give Him that is really yours to give. Don't wait too long to find the altar or to begin to place the gift of your wills upon it! No need to wait for a receipt; the Lord has His own special ways of acknowledging.”
― Neal A. Maxwell

“God will facilitate, but He will not force.”
― Neal A. Maxwell