Neal A. Maxwell Quotes

God, he deals you blows that at sometimes you think you can't handle and in the last year there have been things that we thought we couldn't handle but we've dealt with it up until this point.

Everything's been a struggle for me.

Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.

I don't think one ever stops struggling.

I struggled for so many years.

Nietzsche famously said "Whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger." But what he failed to stress is that it almost kills you.

There are many trials in life which do not seem to come from unwisdom or folly; they are silver arrows shot from the bow of God, and fixed inextricably in the quivering heart - they are meant to be borne - they were not meant, like snow or water, to melt as soon as they strike; but the moment an ill can be patiently borne it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain.

My Brethren if thou endure thy trials well though shalt be exalted.

Each step is more difficult than the last; the heaviness fills me and turns my limbs to stone. You must hurt or be hurt.

He who cannot endure the bad will not live to see the good.

The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.

If thou art willing to suffer no adversity, how wilt thou be the friend of Christ?

In the heroic effort of the handcart pioneers, we learn a great truth. All must pass through a refiner’s fire, and the insignificant and unimportant in our lives can melt away like dross and make our faith bright, intact, and strong. There seems to be a full measure of anguish, sorrow, and often heartbreak for everyone, including those who earnestly seek to do right and be faithful. Yet this is part of the purging to become acquainted with God.

Adversity can strengthen us if it does not go on too long.

We are kept keen on the grindstone of pain and necessity.

Through every trial we grow. All suffering we experience has a meaning. Though it seems very cruel, it is like the fire that smelts the iron ore: the steel that emerges from that furnace is beautifully strong, useful for many purposes.

Life asks not merely what you can do; it asks how much can you endure and not be spoiled.

No matter how many obstacles that are thrown in our path, there are ways to except them and to live through them.

Do you think that you shall enter the Garden of Bliss without such trials as came to those who passed before you?

No cross no crown.

We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.

He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity.

To the stars through thorns.

It is unnatural to deny effort, adversity, and pain.

My faith was tested like Job. That's the message I try to tell other people: just because you believe in God, serve God, feed the hungry, clothe the naked, people gotta realize, it don't mean things not gonna happen to you.