Top 180 Neal A. Maxwell Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “Patience helps us to view imperfections in others more generously to the end that we may learn to be more wise than they have been.”

— Neal A. Maxwell

102. “Patience stoutly resists pulling up the daisies to see how the roots are doing!”

— Neal A. Maxwell

103. “Clearly, when we baptize, our eyes should gaze beyond the baptismal font to the holy temple. The great garner into which the sheaves should be gathered is the holy temple.”

— Neal A. Maxwell

104. “Letting off steam always produces more heat than light.”

— Neal A. Maxwell

105. “The laughter of the world is merely loneliness pathetically trying to reassure itself.”

— Neal A. Maxwell

106. “Those of little faith mistake local cloud cover for general darkness. Keeping spiritually intact results in our keeping precious perspective by seeing “things as they really are.””

— Neal A. Maxwell

107. “If another person only had in his storehouse of deserved self-esteem what you had put there, what would he have to draw upon and to sustain him?”

— Neal A. Maxwell

108. “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.”

— Neal A. Maxwell

109. “Personal, spiritual symmetry emerges only from the shaping of prolonged obedience. Twigs are bent, not snapped into shape.”

— Neal A. Maxwell

110. “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

111. “I thank the Father that His Only Begotten Son did not say in defiant protest at Calvary, “My body is my own!” I stand in admiration of women today who resist the “fashion of abortion, by refusing to make the sacred womb a tomb!””

— Neal A. Maxwell

112. “We can be walking witnesses and standing sermons to which objective onlookers can say a quiet amen.”

— Neal A. Maxwell

113. “The hardest work you and I will ever do is to put off our selfishness. It is heavy lifting!”

— Neal A. Maxwell

114. “Within what is allotted to us, we can have spiritual contentment.”

— Neal A. Maxwell

115. “The true Christian is a communicator.”

— Neal A. Maxwell

116. “If we entertain temptations, soon they begin entertaining us!”

— Neal A. Maxwell

117. “Conscience warns us not to sink our cleats too deeply in mortal turf, which is so dangerously artificial.”

— Neal A. Maxwell

118. “Of all the errors one could make, God’s gospel plan is the wrong thing to be wrong about.”

— Neal A. Maxwell

119. “The gross size of our talent inventories is less important than the net use of our talents?”

— Neal A. Maxwell

120. “Our goals should stretch us bit by bit. So often when we think we have encountered a ceiling, it is really a psychological or experiential barrier that we have built ourselves. We built it and we can remove it.”

— Neal A. Maxwell

121. “Daily hope is vital, since the ‘Winter Quarters’ of our lives are not immediately adjacent to our promised land either. An arduous trek still awaits, but hope spurs weary disciples on.”

— Neal A. Maxwell

122. “He did not let yesterday hold tomorrow hostage. There was a willingness on his part to forget. Forgetting facilitates the generosity that springs from Christlike charity.”

— Neal A. Maxwell

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

— Neal A. Maxwell

124. “Ironically, brothers and sisters, the natural man who is so very selfish in so many ordinary ways is strangely unselfish in that he reaches for too few of the things that bring real joy. He settles for a mess of pottage instead of eternal joy.”

— Neal A. Maxwell

125. “Obviously, family values mirror our personal priorities. Given the gravity of current conditions, would parents be willing to give up just one outside thing, giving that time and talent instead to the family.”

— Neal A. Maxwell

126. “Spent time-like a spent bullet-tells us much about its “processor.” for we see not only the residual slug, but indicators of how spent time is grooved by a man’s soul, a reliable indicator of what a man is like.”

— Neal A. Maxwell

127. “Trying to observe the slow shift from self-centeredness to empathy is like trying to watch grass grow.”

— Neal A. Maxwell

128. “The flame of family can warm us and at the same time be a perpetual pilot light to rekindle us.”

— Neal A. Maxwell

129. “Patience is a willingness, in a sense, to watch the unfolding purposes of God with a sense of wonder and awe, rather than pacing up and down within the cell of our circumstance.”

— Neal A. Maxwell

130. “There are certain mortal moments and minutes that matter. Certain hingepoints in the history of each human. Some seconds are so decisive they shrink the soul, while others are spent, so as to stretch the soul.”

— Neal A. Maxwell

131. “The imperfections of others never release us from the need to work on our own shortcomings.”

— Neal A. Maxwell

132. “Good homes are still the best source of good humans.”

— Neal A. Maxwell

133. “Ultimate hope and daily grumpiness are not reconcilable.”

— Neal A. Maxwell

134. “Why is it that for many persons changing others is so exciting and so relevant, while changing oneself is so boring and irrelevant?”

— Neal A. Maxwell

135. “A new calling can beckon us away from comfortable routine and from competencies already acquired.”

— Neal A. Maxwell

136. “Most of our suffering comes from sin and stupidity; it is, nevertheless, very real, and growth can occur with real repentance. But the highest source of suffering appears to be reserved for the innocent who undergo divine tutorial training.”

— Neal A. Maxwell

137. “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.”

— Neal A. Maxwell

138. “God will facilitate, but He will not force.”

— Neal A. Maxwell

139. “Therefore, as we strive to become as the Father is and as Jesus is, we are to become more gracious and merciful, more kind and considerate. Even more, we are to do this in a world which does little to encourage such qualities of character.”

— Neal A. Maxwell

140. “The issue for us is trusting God enough to trust also His timing. If we can truly believe He has our welfare at heart, may we not let His plans unfold as He thinks best? The same is true with the second coming and with all those matters wherein our faith needs to include faith in the Lord’s timing for us personally, not just in His overall plans and purposes.”

— Neal A. Maxwell

141. “One day the faithful will have it all!”

— Neal A. Maxwell

142. “Those who turn against the Church do so to play to their own private gallery, but when, one day, the applause has died down and the cheering has stopped, they will face a smaller audience, the judgment bar of God.”

— Neal A. Maxwell

143. “Men and Women of Christ magnify their callings without magnifying themselves.”

— Neal A. Maxwell

144. “Listening is one of the forms of love.”

— Neal A. Maxwell

145. “If we are not serving Jesus, and if he is not in our thoughts and hearts, then the things of the world will draw us instead to them! Moreover, the things of the world need not be sinister in order to be diverting and consuming.”

— Neal A. Maxwell

146. “If we spent as much time lifting our children as we do criticizing them, how effectively we could help them to see themselves in a more positive light!”

— Neal A. Maxwell

147. “As we come closer to Him, we not only “stand all amazed”-we even kneel all amazed!”

— Neal A. Maxwell

148. “When at length we tire of putting people down, this self-inflicted fatigue can give way to the invigorating calisthenics of lifting people up.”

— Neal A. Maxwell

149. “One simply cannot come to a cause like the kingdom of God, with its celestial concepts, and not appreciate and identify with what Ammon said: “Behold, I say unto you, I cannot say the smallest part which I feel.””

— Neal A. Maxwell

150. “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.”

— Neal A. Maxwell