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Daily Quotes From Neal A. Maxwell

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Sincerely striving to follow Jesus will try our faith and our patience, sometimes sorely. Even with all its travail, it is the trek of treks.
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The key is to have our eyes wide open to our own faults and partially closed to the faults of others not the other way around!
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2,805
The adversary and his helpers will continue to seek to discredit today's undershepherds in order to try to scatter some of the sheep.
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Do not let yesterday hold tomorrow hostage! Walk away from your investment in the penny stock of pride; it never pays dividends.
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995
It is not the flock, the body of the Church and its leaders, who stray, but individuals who stray.
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Recycling regrets [doesn't] change reality. Pawing through the past is not productive.
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967
Unsurprisingly, therefore, we do notice each other's weaknesses. But we should not celebrate them.
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If the choice is between reforming other Church members or ourselves, is there really any question about where we should begin?
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Too much attention to what might have been actually gets in the way of what still can be.
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Ultimately, freedom involves choice between eternal alternatives, but not the altering of the alternatives.
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There appears to be no point, I learned, in God's constantly illuminating the trail beyond where my eyes of faith can now see.
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700
Good friends can give us the gifts of approval and acceptance and of perspective.
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God gives to us the lessons we need most, not the ones we think we need.
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Often that which we resist learning vicariously we must learn the hard way: experientially.
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The Christian receives a customized curriculum in life, which is but one of many signs that we have a loving & knowing Father in heaven.
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997
Reproof is often a last railing before an erring individual goes over the edge of the cliff.
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We discover so many wonders when walking carefully through another's garden, not by crashing into it with a Mack truck.
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919
So often in human affairs I have learned the many depend upon the few to lead, to set the pace, to show the way, to deal with the detail.
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906
Like it or not, society and the state will mirror our homes.
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Random goodness is, by itself, not enough to resist the march of evil, which takes its victims without pity or remorse.
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1,104