Neal A. Maxwell Quotes

However God had it planned, I'm rockin' with how he do it. He took the steering wheel and I'm letting him drive.

Perhaps the greatest discovery of my life, without question the greatest commitment, came when finally I had the confidence in God that I would loan or yield my agency to him-without compulsion or pressure, without any duress, as a single individual alone, by myself, no counterfeiting, nothing expected other than the privilege. In a sense, speaking figuratively, to take one's agency, that precious gift which the scriptures make plain is essential to life itself, and say, "I will do as you direct," is afterward to learn that in so doing you possess it all the more.

God always gives His best to those who leave the choice with him.

Just take one step at a time, trusting that God still has a plan for you, and He will make the best out of your situation.

I think I just learned that God has a plan for all of us, and I work hard and do all the things I can, but at the same time, His will is perfect; and me trying to control it, it's not going to work.

Sometimes I haven't understood why he has done things and why things happened, but I know that God has a plan.

I was afraid that if I surrendered my life over to God, God would tell me not to do those things that I desperately wanted to do.

God will open any doors he wants to open, and if He closes doors, that's fine, too.

Sometimes, the plans in your heart aren't God's plan.

The future belongs to God.

The future belongs to God.

I trust God's timing. I'm a very spiritual person, and a lot of times, we want things on our time, and we come up with our own plans of what we want to do with our lives, but God be like, 'Haha, you're funny. That's cute. Anyways, this is what you're going to do,' and I've learned to just sit back.

I try to say to myself, this is the season that the Lord has you here. Don't hold too tightly to it because you don't know what other adventures or things are coming down the line and I just try to be open to what the Lord may have next.

If we had strength and faith enough to trust ourselves entirely to God; and follow Him simply wherever He should lead us, we should have no need of any great effort of mind to reach perfection.

Spread out your petition before God, and then say, "Thy will, not mine, be done." The sweetest lesson I have learned in God's school is to let the Lord choose for me.

God's guidance is almost always step-by-step; He does not show us our life's plan all at once. Sometimes our anxiousness to know the will of God comes from a desire to peer over God's shoulder to see what His plan is. What we need to do is learn to trust Him to guide us.

Prayer is putting oneself in the hands of God

Place your desires before God. Pray about them and trust God to give them to you if and when they’re right for you.

Put yourself in God’s hands and you can’t go wrong.

Just because we want something so bad does not mean that God wants it for us, too.

I have learned in my life that my plans don't matter. It's God's plan.

I do know this: God does answer your prayers, but it's not always in the way you expect. God knows what's best for us, though, so there's no need to worry when things don't go how we originally wanted them to go.

We must accept all of God's will for us, not just those portions that happen to appeal and bring instant gratification and pleasure to us.

The momentum of freedom in our world is unmistakable - and it is not carried forward by our power alone. We can trust in that greater power Who guides the unfolding of the years. And in all that is to come, we can know that His purposes are just and true.

God may not be there when you want him but he is always on time.