Neal A. Maxwell Quotes

Everybody has their demons; everyone has their challenges.

When things hurt us, we're merely on our way to another spiritual environment.

Don't look for a life virtually free from discomfort, pain, pressure, challenge, or grief, for those are the tools a loving Father uses to stimulate our personal growth and understanding.

It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars.

There has already been the karmic work: that what life has transformed in me, this initiation brought on, of necessity, by trials.

I count life just a stuff to try the soul's strength on.

Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.

Adversity is the state in which man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.

Everybody goes through hardships but hardships make you the person you are, and I feel that is important.

If you let tragedies stop you along the way, then you're never going to grow as a person.

Affliction comes to us all, not to make us sad, but sober; not to make us sorry, but to make us wise; not to make us despondent, but by its darkness to refresh us as the night refreshes the day; not to impoverish, but to enrich us

The challenges we face in life are always lessons that serve our soul's growth.

You can't lead a true life without suffering

Conflicts bring experience and experience brings that growth in Grace which is not to be attained by any other means!

When every situation which life can offer is turned to the profit of spiritual growth, no situation can really be a bad one.

Everybody has difficult years, but a lot of times the difficult years end up being the greatest years of your whole entire life, if you survive them.

This is an important lesson to remember when you're having a bad day, a bad month, or a shitty year. Things will change: you won't feel this way forever. And anyway, sometimes the hardest lessons to learn are the ones your soul needs most.

Character - Some day, you will be wrestling with the great temptation, or trembling under the great sorrow of your life. But the real struggle is here, now, in these quiet weeks. Now it is being decided whether, in the day of your supreme sorrow or temptation, you shall miserably fail or gloriously conquer. Character cannot be made except by a steady, long-continued process.

This world and life of ours are filled with inequalities. The worst possible use to make of this fact, however, is to allow resentments to possess us. All of us have imagined limitations, but we have also the privilege of pushing them aside, and spreading our lives out! We never know any of our limitations until we put ourselves to the test. There are always "growing pains" working within us.

The troubles of this world pass, and what we have left is what we have made of our souls.

A life without problems would be a barren existence, without the opportunity for spiritual growth.

Maybe her own tears were the poison that made her grow.

Pain is one of life's great lessons. You need to know how you'll react to the negatives in your life. Only then will you learn from the pain, and the next time it happens, you can speed up your healing process.

Character is constructed amidst the tempests of the World