“[E]ven
after [a big bell] is silent you can put your hands on the metal and feel the
last tingle of vibrations, as though it were still singing to itself, private
music of its own which we can't hear “
(Peter
Dickinson, English author, Time and the
Clock Mice)
(Anonymous)
(Neal A
Maxwell, The Inexhaustible Gospel,
BYU Devotional, August 18,1982)
“Our
eyes capture thousands of beautiful pictures every day.”
(Pradeepa Pandiyan, amateur photographer, India)
“Sometimes, in the mutual climb along the straight and narrow path, brothers and sisters, we need friends to shout warnings to us or to give us instructions, but we also need those moments when warm whispers can help us to keep putting one foot in front of the other.”
(Neal A
Maxwell, Insights from my Life, BYU
Devotional, October 26,1976)
“But
the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness,
goodness, faith, meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.”
(Galatians
5:22-23)
“You
may be exhausted, but don’t ever give up.”
(Neil L
Anderson, Wounded, October Conference
2018)
“Because
any life you take is not just one life. There will always be a family connected
to that life.”
(Rukiye
Abdul-Mutakallim, spoken to the boy (Javon Coulter) who murdered her son,
Suliman Ahmed Abdul-Mutakallim, November 2, 2017 in South Cumminsville, OH,
offering her family to help Javon live a better life then and when he is
eventually released from prison)
“A calm
and modest life brings more happiness than the pursuit of success combined with
constant restlessness that comes it.”
(Albert
Einstein, written in 1922, in German on hotel stationery, and given to a
messenger who refused a tip. In 2017 the note sold at auction for $1.56m)
“Neal
[Maxwell] said his testimony came in three ways. Early in his home life, he
experienced the witness of the Spirit, followed afterward by intellectual and
experiential conversions. He found that the witness of the Spirit is more sure
but that the other witnesses would increasingly corroborate his spiritual
impressions.”
(Bruce
C Hafen, A Disciple's Life, the
Autobiography of Neal A Maxwell, Deseret Book 2002, 67)
“What
was the object of gathering the … people of God in any age of the world? … The
main object was to build unto the Lord a house whereby He could reveal unto His
people the ordinances of His house and the glories of His kingdom, and teach
the people the way of salvation”
(Joseph
Smith, Teachings of the President's out e
the Church: Joseph Smith (2007), 415-19)
“Never
has anyone offered so much to so many in so few words as when Jesus said, “Here
am I, send me.” (Abr. 3:27.)
(Neal A
Maxwell, Jesus of Nazareth, Savior and
King, April Conference 1976)
“In
these days of uncertainty and unrest, liberty-loving peoples’ greatest
responsibility and paramount duty is to preserve and proclaim the freedom of
the individual, his relationship to Deity, and the necessity of obedience to
the principles of the gospel of Jesus Christ. Only, thus will mankind find
peace and happiness.”
(David
O McKay, Improvement Era, December 1962, p. 903.)
“Just
as a flood-lighted temple is more beautiful in a severe storm or in a heavy
fog, so the gospel of Jesus Christ is more glorious in times of inward storm
and of personal sorrow and tormenting conflict.”
(Harold
B Lee, Conference Report, Apr. 1965,
p. 16).
“Money
may be the husk of many things, but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not
appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends; servants,
but not faithfulness; days of joy, but not peace or happiness”
(In The Forbes Scrapbook of Thoughts on the
Business of Life, New York: Forbes, Inc., 1968, p. 88).
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