There is also a dimension of patience which links it to a special reverence for life. Patience is a willingness, in a sense, to watch the unfolding purposes of God with a sense of wonder and awe, rather than pacing up and down within the cell of our circumstance. Put another way, too much anxious opening of the oven door and the cake falls instead of rising. So it is with us. If we are always selfishly taking our temperature to see if we are happy, we will not be. Neal A. Maxwell
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  1. Each of us is an innkeeper who decides if there is room for Jesus!
  2. God's extraordinary work is most often done by ordinary people in the seeming obscurity of a home and family.
  3. The laughter of the world is merely loneliness pathetically trying to reassure itself.
  4. I testify that He is utterly incomparable in what He is, what He knows, what He has accomplished and what He has experienced. Yet, movingly, He calls us His Friends
  5. There are certain mortal moments and minutes that matter. Certain hingepoints in the history of each human. Some seconds are so decisive they shrink the soul, while others are spent, so as to stretch the soul.
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