Neal A. Maxwell wrote:
By letting go of the world, we gain the grasp of an outstretched hand that belongs to Him who was once offered the world. Satan now tries to persuade us through his blandishments that what he offered Jesus (and was turned down) is still a bargain. We, too, must spurn Satan, that loser who knows nothing of real success and who wants to mutualize his misery. (Press Forward, p. 2.)
If we ponder just what it is that will rise with us in the resurrection, it seems clear that our intelligence will rise with us, meaning not simply our IQ, but also our capacity to receive and apply truth. Our talents, attributes, and skills will rise with us; certainly also our capacity to learn, our degree of self-discipline, and our capacity to work. Our precise form of work here may have no counterpart there, but the capacity to work will never be obsolete. (Prove, p, 12.)
And when we tear ourselves free from the entanglements of the world, are we promised a religion of repose or an Eden of ease? No we are promised tears and trials and toil! But we are also promised tears and trials and triumph, the mere contemplation of which tingles one’s soul. (Ensign, “Why Not Now?” November 1974, p. 13. . . DELICIOUS talk!!)
From the ‘Neal A. Maxwell Quote Book’ Deseret Book 1997, p.364-65
The last ‘finding truth’ post of Elder Henry B. Eyring’s writings will come in a few days’ – k
