Neal A. Maxwell Quotes

If you have anything, or if I have anything, it's because it's been given to us by our Creator.

I realize we're not promised tomorrow. Believe me, I realize that. But if God blesses me and lets me stay, I love my life so much, it is such a good life. I am eager to throw myself at His feet, but I don't want to get on the first busload that is going.

Be grateful for who you are and whatever you have. Everything you have is a gift from God.

That's what religion teaches: that life is a temporary thing which is going to dissolve one day.

If the Resurrection is resurrection from the dead, all hope and freedom are in spite of death.

We are the spirit children of a Heavenly Father. He loved us and He taught us before we were born into this world. He told us that He wished to give us all that He had. To qualify for that gift we had to receive mortal bodies and be tested. Because of those mortal bodies, we would face pain, sickness, and death.

No one who strives with full faith and heart for the blessings of eternal life will be denied. And how great will be the joy and how much deeper the appreciation then after enduring in patience and faith now.

If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once.

Every life is precious to God. God created every one of us. He gave us a soul, and that soul will live as long as God lives.

I think the membrane - I say that the membrane between life and death is perilously thin. And I do think the story of Jesus, this great mythical story, can have transforming value in our lives.

We should know that faith is a gift of God, and that it may not be given to men, except it be graciously. Thus, indeed, all the good which we have is of God; and accordingly, when God rewardeth a good work of man, he crowneth his own gift.

I guess on one hand I believe it doesn't matter if there is life after death.

I do not fear death, as I cherish life too much.

God gave me everything I have.

Everything God gives me, I take, and he's given enormously during my career.

I know there are certain gifts that each of us have. The gifts you don't have to worry about so much, because God gave them to us. It's the living, it's the life, it's the now.

I've always felt, it's a gift of God, whatever I have, whatever has made me do what I do for as long as I do it. But I know I can lose that in one second. A stroke. Whatever. One second. Blow the whole thing. So, when you do think about that, you realize how fortunate and how blessed you've been, and that's really how I feel.

There is always death at the end of your plan and life at the end of God's plan.

But fortunately for us and for all men, it has not been given unto us to judge, nor to execute, nor to measure out the days and the years of men. We may be most grateful that such matters belong to the Lord God our Father, who sees things past and things to come. And, we may be grateful for the assurance that there is plan and purpose in this world, and in our own lives.

Everything is a gift from God: it is only by recognizing this crucial dependence on the Creator that we will find freedom and peace.

I am certain in my heart that all that I am, I have received from God.

Every breath we draw is a gift of God's love; every moment of existence is a grace.

I don't think of myself as an author. But simply as a grateful child of God. John 3:27 has long been a life verse: "A man can receive nothing unless it has been given him from heaven." Any more words will only be solely a gift from Him. I can only faithfully wait.

To believe in immortality is one thing, but it is first needful to believe in life.

Why should we give God thanks? Because everything we have comes from God.