Neal A. Maxwell Quotes

He who does not see the kingdom of heaven in this life will never see it in the coming life.

It should be recognized that this Church is not a social club. This is the kingdom of God on the earth. It is the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Its purpose is to bring salvation and exaltation to both the living and the dead.

The purpose and cause of the incarnation was that He might illuminate the world by His wisdom and excite it to the love of Himself.

What we should be after death, we have to attain in life, i.e. holiness and bliss. Here on earth the Kingdom of God begins.

I am apt to think, if we knew what it was to be an angel for one hour, we should return to this world, though it were to sit on the brightest throne in it, with vastly more loathing and reluctance than we would now descend into a loathsome dungeon or sepulchre.

Is it possible that since I hunt, I may be hunting for the life of my Savior and the blood of the Lamb of God? I have fought against many differing sorts of conscience. Is it beyond all possibility and hazard that I have not fought against God, and that I have not persecuted Jesus in some of them?

The main reason God has given us minds is that we might seek out and find all the reasons that exist for treasuring him in all things and above all things.

Heaven is the day of which grace is the dawn; the rich, ripe fruit of which grace is the lovely flower; the inner shrine of that most glorious temple to which grace forms the approach and outer court.

Although I don't believe in God, Bach's music shows me what a love of God must feel like.

I do feel it. And I've felt it my whole life, that the supernatural has a role in the world.

The Kingdom of God is Within You.

Jesus is the hope of the world and the local church is the vehicle of expressing that hope to the world.

The gospel of Jesus Christ is that penetrating light which shines through the darkness of our lives.

One day we will see our animals again in eternity of Christ. Paradise is open to all God’s creatures.

God's highest desire is not to make us rich, successful or popular. His goal is to make us His

We are built to live in the kingdom of God. It is our natural habitat.

Religion consists in a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain of.

We may speak about a place where there are no tears, no death, no fear, no night; but those are just the benefits of heaven. The beauty of heaven is seeing God.

No pen, no words, no image can express to you the loveliness of my only, only Lord Jesus.

God isn't chocolate, he's the encounter between chocolate and the palate capable of appreciating it.

According to the mystics, this search for divine bliss is the entire purpose of a human life. this is why we all chose to be born, and this is why all the suffering and pain of life on earth is worthwhile--just for the chance to experience this infinite love. And once you have found this divinity within, can you hold it? Because if you can...bliss.

To me the gospel is not a great mass of theological jargon. It is a simple and beautiful and logical thing, with one quiet truth following another in orderly sequence. I do not fret over the mysteries. I do not worry whether the heavenly gates swing or slide. I am only concerned that they open.

In this world there is a paradise, whoever does not enter it will not enter the Paradise of the Hereafter.

Maybe God created the desert so that man could appreciate the date trees

Your mind was made to know and love God.