Neal A. Maxwell Quotes

God does not want you to become a God; he wants you to become godly - taking on his values, attitudes, and character.

What the purpose of my life is about is I want to become the kind of person that God wants me to become, and through my study of the scriptures, I can articulate the kind of person that God would be happy if I become.

The message of the restored gospel of Jesus Christ is that we can and must expect to become better as long as we live.

The grace thou hast will soon be less, if thou addest not more to it.

If, then, faith widens the connections, it elevates the man.

Can you honestly tell me that your great desire is to be holy? Can you honestly tell me your great desire is to not be like the world, but to be like Jesus Christ? Because if you cannot, you should be afraid. Those who love the world do not have the love of the Father (1 John 2:15).

God's grace turns out men and women with a strong family likeness to Jesus Christ, not milksops.

Rom. 8:29 tells us what our purpose is - to conform to the image of Jesus Christ, and that singularly helps me keep a focus. That's really what I'm called to do, and I should be gradually growing and changing. He should be increasing, and I should be decreasing.

He is the way, the truth, and the light, and no one can come back into the presence of our Father in heaven except through him. Christ is God the Son and possesses every virtue in its perfection. Therefore, the only measure of true greatness is how close a man can become like Jesus. That man is greatest who is most like Christ, and those who love him most will be most like him.

Good men study to spiritualize their bodies; bad men to incarnate their souls.

There is a immense difference between training to do something and trying to do something....Sp iritual transformation is not a matter of trying harder, but of training wisely.... Following Jesus simply means learning from him how to arrange my life around activities that enable me to live in the fruit of the Spirit

Not only does the Atonement of Jesus Christ overcome the effects of the Fall of Adam and make possible the remission of our individual sins and transgressions, but His Atonement also enables us to do good and become better in ways that stretch far beyond our mortal capacities.

Christianity is not so much the advent of a better doctrine as of a perfect character.

It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible Gods and Goddesses. To remember that the dullest, and most uninteresting person you can talk to may one day be a creature which, if you saw it now, you would be strongly tempted to worship.

We help God's children best by providing ways to build faith in Jesus Christ and in His restored gospel when they are young.

Be humble like Mary so that you can be holy like Jesus

At last I saw Christ as my Saviour. I believed in Him and gave myself to Him. The burden rolled from off me, and a great love for Christ filled my soul. That was more than fifty years ago. I loved Jesus Christ then, but I loved Him more the year after, and more the year after that, and more every year since.

The purpose of the church is to make bad men good and good men better.

I put up with this church, in the hope that one day it will become better, just as it is constrained to put up with me in the hope that I will become better.

The call to religion is not a call to be better than your fellows, but to be better than yourself. Religion is relative to the individual.

When I understand that everything happening to me is to make me more Christlike, it resolves a great deal of anxiety.

As sons and daughters of our Heavenly Father, we are capable of so much more. For that, good intentions are not enough. We must do. Even more important, we must become what Heavenly Father wants us to be.

The more we grow in love and virtue and holiness, the more we see love and virtue and holiness outside. All condemnation of others really condemns ourselves. Adjust the microcosm (which is in your power to do) and the macrocosm will adjust itself for you. It is like the hydrostatic paradox, one drop of water can balance the universe.

Christlikeness is a journey, not a destination. The joy is in the journey.

An education capable of saving humanity is no small undertaking; it involves the spiritual development of man, the enhancement of his value as an individual, and the preparation of young people to understand the times in which they live.