Letting off steam always produces more heat than light.
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Oh, how great the plan of our God.Neal A. Maxwell
Defectors often cause more difficulty than disinterested disbelievers.
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Patience is, therefore, clearly not fatalistic, shoulder-shrugging resignation it is accepting a divine rhythm to life it is obedience prolonged.
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It is one of the ironies of religious history that many mortals err in their understanding of the nature of God and end up rejecting not the real God but their own erroneous and stereotypical image of God. Frequently this is because they have thought of God solely in terms of thunderings at Sinai without pondering substance....
Neal A. Maxwell
Naive optimism and pervasive pessimism are both to be avoided, therefore. It's not an easy balance to maintain, to be asked to work away in the Ninevehs of our lives without being so conscious of the coming cataclysm that we are not serious citizens of our communities and nations. By living and sharing the gospel of Jesus Christ, we are doing the most relevant thing we can do by way of helping. (There are civic and other chores to be done, of course.) Day in and day out, the gospel is the one thing that is most relevant, and we are to be of good cheer.
Neal A. Maxwell
By seeing lifes experiences through to the end, on our small scale, we can finally say, as Jesus did on the cross, 'It is finished.' We, too, can then have 'finished our preparations,' having done the particular work God has given each of us to do. However, our tiny cup cannot be taken from us either. For this reason have we come unto the world.
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