Neal A. Maxwell Quotes

The style of the Bible in general is singularly adapted to men of every class and grade of culture, affording the child the simple nourishment for its religious wants, and the profoundest thinker inexhaustible matter of study.

The Bible is the proper book for men. There the truth is distinguished from error far more clearly than anywhere else, and one finds something new in it every day. For twenty-eight years, since I became a doctor, I have now constantly read and preached the Bible; and yet I have not exhausted it but find something new in it every day.

I began to read the Holy Scriptures upon my knees, laying aside all other books, and praying over, if possible, every line and word. This proved meat indeed and drink indeed to my soul. I daily received fresh life, light and power from above.

I read novels but I also read the Bible. And study it, you know? And the more I learn, the more excited I get.

God is shaking me.

I love the Bible. I read it every day. I spend 10 hours a week studying it. It has affected my life in profound ways. I am inspired when I read it.

There is a Mount Sinai for every child of God if he only knows where to find it.

I take my Bible with me, sometimes two of them, when I travel.

Why does the Church grow and flourish? It does so because of divine direction to the leaders and members.

Plenty of people out there think of me as the Antichrist or the devil incarnate because I do not affirm the literal patterns of the Bible. But the fact is I can no more abandon the literal patterns than I could fly to the moon. I just go beyond them.

I testify that inspiration can be the spring for every person's hope, guidance, and strength. It is one of the magnified treasures of life. It involves coming to the infinite knowledge of God.

Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.

God is acting on your soul all the time, whether you have spiritual sensations or not.

As we gain experience with the Holy Ghost, we learn that the intensity with which we feel the Spirit's influence is not always the same.

The Bible is not man's word about God, but God's word about man.

I am blessed to receive a word from God every day in receiving the scriptures and reading the scriptures. And God speaks through the Bible.

I've read the Bible before, a couple of times cover to cover.

The one book necessary to be understood by a divine, is the Bible; any others are to be read, chiefly, in order to understand that.

Often the work of the Lord itself may be a temptation to keep us from that communion with Him which is so essential to the benefit of our own souls.

The soul, cramped among the petty vexations of Earth, needs to keep its windows constantly open to the invigorating air of large and free ideas: and what thought is so grand as that of an ever-present God, in whom all that is vital in humanity breathes and grows?

I read the Bible every day.

I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I've been closer to him for that reason.

The Bible is the book of my life. It's the book I live with, the book I live by, the book I want to die by.

The Scriptures are the truth from God.

The word for knowledge appears in the Koran more often than any other except God.