A patient willingness to defer dividends is a hallmark of individual maturity.

— Neal A. Maxwell

Be careful, fathers, when you inordinately desire things to be better for your children than they were for you. Do not, however unintentionally, make things worse by removing the requirement for reasonable work as part of their experience, thereby insulating your children from the very things that helped make you what you are.

— Neal A. Maxwell

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

— Neal A. Maxwell

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

— Neal A. Maxwell

Elder Maxwell on Wintry Doctrines Elder Maxwell said that “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.” This was what he came to call the wintry doctrine at the funeral of a young father in 1996 he put it this way “There are in the gospel warm and cuddly doctrines and then there are some that are just outright wintry doctrines… one of them frankly is that we cannot approach real consecration without passing through appropriate clinical experiences because we don’t achieve consecration in the abstract. … sometimes therefore the best people have the worst experiences… because they are the most ready to learn.” (Bruce C. Haven, The Story of A Disciple’s Life: Preparing the Biography of Neal A. Maxwell, p. 14)

— Neal A. Maxwell

Even the early droplets of selfish decisions suggest a direction. Then the little inflecting rivulets come, merging into small brooks and soon into larger streams; finally one is swept along by a vast river which flows into the “gulf of misery and endless to” (HEL. 5:12).

— Neal A. Maxwell

Faith in God includes Faith in God's timing.

— Neal A. Maxwell

God does not begin by asking our ability, only our availability, and if we prove our dependability, He will increase our capability.

— Neal A. Maxwell

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

— Neal A. Maxwell

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

— Neal A. Maxwell