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Elder Maxwell seldom spoke autobiographically because he did not like to draw attention to himself, but members of his family encouraged him to share some personal experiences and lessons he learned from them.
Elder Maxwell was in the Presidency of the First Quorum of the Seventy when he delivered this devotional address at Brigham Young University on October 26, 1976.
Elder Maxwell was in the Presidency of the First Quorum of the Seventy when he delivered this devotional address at Brigham Young University on October 26, 1976.
The Doctrine and Covenants makes the provocative wager that spiritual vision is a mode of seeing that lights up the whole body so that we feel, sense, and know not just through the eyes. This realization illuminates passages like those that promise readers if their eye is single to God’s glory, then their whole body will be filled with light.
The Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship is seeking original art created by BYU students for the 3rd Annual Book of Mormon Art Contest. Artwork will be featured in the Book of Mormon Art Catalog, in an art display on BYU campus, and winners will receive prize money.
The Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship is seeking original art created by BYU students for the 3rd Annual Book of Mormon Art Contest.
First, my brothers and sisters, my gratitude to the prophet and his counselors for this call. To them, to Elder Richards and the members of the First Quorum of the Seventy, I pledge that my little footnote on the page of the quorum’s history will read clearly that I wore out my life in helping to spread Jesus’ gospel and helping to regulate His church.
The notion that divine inspiration informs the U.S. Constitution is a distinctive teaching of the restored Church and a striking declaration, thrice repeated, of the Doctrine and Covenants. The revelations declare that the Constitution incorporates a “principle of freedom in maintaining rights and privileges” that “belongs to all mankind, and is justifiable before” God (98:5); that God “suffered [it] to be established” and that it “should be maintained for the rights and protection of all flesh, according to just and holy principles,”
My brothers and sisters, I would like to speak of and to a particular group of important individuals. These are they who fully intend, someday, to begin to believe and/or to be active in the Church. But not yet! These are not bad individuals but good individuals who simply do not know how much better they could be.
Thank you for being here. I don't know what to say. It's overwhelming to be here with you and to have Elder Gilbert. Christina. What beautiful, beautiful words of consecration And thank you so much, Rosalynde, for that wonderful introduction. How many of you have an Elder Maxwell story where you remember something that he said or did that indelibly stays with you?
A few years ago, J. Spencer Fluhman, then-director of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship, and Elder Maxwell’s children (Cory Maxwell, Becky Maxwell Ahlander, Nancy Maxwell Anderson, and Jane Maxwell Sanders) collaborated on a volume of talks by Elder Maxwell that would allow Elder Maxwell’s words to echo through future generations. Considering over a hundred talks in a variety of settings, the family chose twenty-four talks they felt were the most incisive and enduring statements of gospel principles and of Elder Maxwell’s testimony.
We teach a single man named Konishi. He's a good-natured, rotund fellow in his forties. He ekes out a living by doing laundry. His home is filled with clothes hanging out to dry. He heats his house with a simple coal-burning stove. At some point in the past, the fire had gotten so hot that the steel had melted, leaving the stove misshapen, pulled down by gravity, a la Oldenburg.