Neal A. Maxwell Zitate

“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.”

“Faith in God includes Faith in God's timing.”

“Empathy during agony is a portion of divinity.”

“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”

“We should certainly count our blessings, but we should also make our blessings count.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Each of us is an innkeeper who decides if there is room for Jesus!”

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

“No love is ever wasted. Its worth does not lie in reciprocity.”

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

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

“Never give up what you want most for what you want today.”

“We cannot improve the world if we are conformed to the world.”

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

“Coming unto the Lord is not a negotiation, but a surrender.”

“Perfect love is perfectly patient.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“Discouragement is not the absence of adequacy but the absence of courage.”

“We, more than others, should carry jumper and tow cables not only in our cars, but also in our hearts, by which means we can send the needed boost or charge of encouragement or the added momentum to mortal neighbors.”

“What we insistently desire, over time, is what we become.”

“Ultimate hope and daily grumpiness are not reconcilable.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Beware not to get caught up in the thick of thin things.”

“We are so busy constantly checking our own temperatures, we fail to notice the burning fevers of others.”

“Truly we work and live on a streetful of splendid people, whom we are to love and serve even if they are uninterested in us!”