Elder Maxwell Quotes

This wonderful post has been lost in my drafts folder. . .wonder why I never hit publish!

During some of the harder times of my life I became a student of Elder Maxwell. Recently I've turned back to him finding much needed strength in his thoughts.  Maybe you will enjoy them as well.

"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. We can grow in faith only if we are willing to wait patiently for God's purposes and patterns to unfold in our lives, on His timetable."

"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, in the end, you have not chosen Jesus Christ it will not matter what you have chosen."

"Faith in God includes Faith in God's timing."

"Just as doubt, despair, and desensitization go together, so do faith, hope, and charity. The latter, however, must be carefully and constantly nurtured, whereas despair, like dandelions, needs so little encouragement to sprout and spread. Despair comes so naturally to the natural man!"

"Patient endurance permits us to cling to our faith in the Lord and our faith in His timing when we are being tossed about by the surf of circumstance. Even when a seeming undertow grasps us, somehow, in the tumbling, we are being carried forward, though battered and bruised."

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"

"Ultimate hope and daily grumpiness are not reconcilable."

"Within what is allotted to us, we can have spiritual contentment."

"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. "


So much food for thought.  So much inspiration to improve.  I'll keep trying.