L. E. Maxwell Quotes
If things were half as bad as some people persist in believing, I'd have retired with a bottle of Scotch and a pistol a long time ago.
I recently did a piece for the Boston Pops and John Williams, and I hope that it's as well a composed piece as I've ever done for any other medium or occasion.
Recently I've been participating in radio and television talk programs doing broadcasts and conferences, and shooting my mouth off and really going to town.
When at length we tire of putting people down, this self-inflicted fatigue can give way to the invigorating calisthenics of lifting people up.
A new calling can beckon us away from comfortable routine and from competencies already acquired.
Conscience warns us not to sink our cleats too deeply in mortal turf, which is so dangerously artificial.
Though we have rightly applauded our ancestors for their spiritual achievements ... those of us who prevail today will have done no small thing.
The mortal experience . . . is not like a college course which we can passively audit. Instead, we are taking life's course for credit and there are no summers off - not even semester breaks.
The dues of discipleship are high indeed, and how much we can take so often determines how much we can then give.
Our challenge is to think right in a wrong world. Our challenge is to think positive in a negative world.
Clearly, when we baptize, our eyes should gaze beyond the baptismal font to the holy temple. The great garner into which the sheaves should be gathered is the holy temple.
The only thing a title can buy is a little time-either to increase your level of influence with others or to undermine it.
Trying to observe the slow shift from self-centeredness to empathy is like trying to watch grass grow.
The issue for us is trusting God enough to trust also His timing. If we can truly believe He has our welfare at heart, may we not let His plans unfold as He thinks best?
We are vulnerable if we can be taken by a wave of emotion, invaded by an invidious impulse, roughed up by resentment, or engulfed by a surge of selfishness.
The gross size of our talent inventories is less important than the net use of our talents?
We may never become accustomed to untrue and unjust criticism of us but we ought not to be immobilized by it.
Any assessment of where we stand in relationship to Him tells us that we do not stand at all. We kneel.
When our minds really catch hold of the significance of Jesus' atonement, the world's hold on us loosens.
God's anger is kindled not because we have harmed him but because we have harmed ourselves.
Let God talk to you and minister to you, where you get honest with Him - here's what I do well and don't do well; here are my shortcomings, my strengths, and my gifts.
A leader is one who sees more than others see, who sees farther than others see, and who sees before others do." (Leroy Eims)
Big-picture thinkers broaden their outlook by striving to learn from every experience. They don't rest on their successes, they learn from them.
It doesn't matter how many times you have failed.... What matters is the successful attempt.
It is well known that when Thomas A. Eddison was stymied by a problem, he would lie down and take a short nap.
Begin to imagine what the desirable outcome would be like. Go over these mental pictures and delineate details and refinements. Play them over and over to yourself.
Values hold the team together, provide stability for the team to grow upon, measure the team's performance, give direction and guidance and attract like-minded people.
Men are failures, not because they are stupid, but because they are not sufficiently impassioned.
