Better to trust

"It is better to trust and sometimes be disappointed than to be forever mistrusting and be right occasionally."

Neil A. Maxwell ("Insights from my Life" Devotional, October 26, 1976)

Critics must be met by meekness

"Therefore, Brothers and Sisters, quiet goodness must persevere, even when, as prophesied, a few actually rage in their anger against that which is good.  Likewise, the arrogance of critics must be met by the meekness and articulateness of believers."

- Neil A. Maxwell ("Becometh As A Child" April 1996 General Conference)

"They leave the Church, but they cannot leave the Church alone."

"Church members will live in this wheat-and-tares situation until the millennium.  Some real tares even masquerade as wheat, including the few eager individuals who lecture the rest of us about church doctrines in which they no longer believe.  They criticize the use of church resources to which they no longer contribute.  They condescendingly seek to counsel the brethren whom they no longer sustain.  Confrontive, except of themselves, of course, they leave the Church, but they cannot leave the Church alone."

- Neil A. Maxwell ("Becometh As A Child" April 1996 General Conference)