343 Quotes by Neal A. Maxwell

Giving up on God and on oneself constitutes simultaneous surrender to the natural man.

Without making a fetish of goal setting, and without letting “lists” of tasks we desire to do dominate us, some recording of goals is wise not only for the self-reminder these constitute, but also for the satisfaction of crossing things off.

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.

The winds of tribulation, which blow out some men’s candles of commitment, only fan the fires of faith of others.

You rock a sobbing child without wondering if today’s world is passing you by, because you know you hold tomorrow tightly in your arms.

I am as I am, And so is a stone; Them that don’t like me, Must leave me alone.

When in situations of stress we wonder if there is any more in us to give, we can be comforted to know that God, who knows our capacity perfectly, placed us here to succeed.

Do not let the future be held hostage by the past.

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