L. E. Maxwell Quotes

I want to always be viewed by my readers as a friend and not as an authority or an expert.

I think the hardest thing for a person is to know what those twelve things are that they need to work on that will bring the return of success to their life.

For pastors who have a dream and who are walking in obedience but still don't have the resources they need, don't worry. Keep walking in obedience.

I wrote the book [Today Matters] because I have a passion to help people personally grow. Really what it is, it's a personal growth book.

The rallying call to people is to give them hope. When you have hope, that's huge.

God has never given a dream that could be fulfilled at step one. So start walking, be obedient, and watch God fulfill that dream in your life.

I grew up in the home of a pastor, and my earliest memory is that God really had a plan for my life and that I was special - this is really weird - but I felt that.

Without a vision our community will perish without Christ, but without a vision the church will perish as well.

People are not going to give you a vision, but God can.

Journalism, like democracy, is not something that is achieved. It is a work in progress, and not every day is as good as the last.

Foreign news is one of the most expensive kinds of news and, unlike in colonial days, one of the categories with the lowest levels of audience interest.

Foreign correspondence has a natural element of romanticism - and this could be seen as soon as that class of professional reporter emerged in the last half of the 19th century.

He who does not welcome the Cross does not welcome God.

Words are soldiers of fortune hired by different ideas.

Reality is a formless lure, And only when we know this Do we dare to be unreal.

Time is but a phantom dagger That motion lifts to slay itself.

Thank you for inviting me to your house, but I prefer to dine in the Greek restaurant at Wabash Avenue and 12th Street where I will be limited to finding dead flies in my soup.

Before Grease 2, I was called the next Richard Gere, then after Grease 2, nobody would touch me.

I'm always playing these mendacious characters who end up hoisting themselves by their own petard.

And I make no apology for linking my thinking with computer technology.

See yourself reacting to threats, not by running away or evading them, but by meeting them, dealing with them, grappling with them in an aggressive intelligent manner.

Another cause of confusion, and the resulting feelings of nervousness, hurry, and anxiety, is the absurd habit of trying to do many things at one time.

One's capacity for friendship, which can be developed, is basic to one's capacity for happiness.

As soon as the error has been recognized and corrections made, it's equally important that the error be forgotten and the successful attempt remembered and dwelt upon.

When we consciously and deliberately develop new and better habits, our self image tends to outgrow the old habits and grow into the new pattern.

Life is a series of problems.

Admit your mistakes but don't cry over them. Correct them and go forward.

Faith, courage, optimism, looking forward, bring us new life and more life. Futility, frustration, living in the past are not only characteristic of 'old age'; they contribute to it.

Your present negative beliefs were formed by thought PLUS feelings. Generate enough emotion, or deep feeling and your new thoughts and ideas will cancel them out.

To really 'live,' that is to find life reasonably satisfying, you must have an adequate and realistic self-image that you can life with. You must find yourself acceptable to 'you.'

Do your worrying before you place your bet, not after the wheel stops turning.

If you cannot hate evil, you cannot love good.

The good life is the best preparation for bad times.

The acceptance of the reality that we are in the Lord's loving hands is only a recognition that we have never really been anywhere else.

Every dimension of the gospel is relevant to one or more of our social and political problems of our time.

Oh, how great the plan of our God!

There is no democracy of facts.

When in situations of stress we wonder if there is any more in us to give, we can be comforted to know that God, who knows our capacity perfectly, placed us here to succeed

Satan delights to have us put ourselves down. Self-contempt is of Satan. There is no such thing in heaven.

Ultimate hope and daily grumpiness are not reconcilable.

Blessed is he who will not be offended

Letting off steam always produces more heat than light.

Those few members who desert the cause are abandoning an oasis to search for water in the desert.

Repentance is a rescuing, not a dour, doctrine.

How can we truly understand who we are unless we know who we were and what we have the power to become?

We can't dwell upon another's ingratitude without using up our time and talents unprofitably.

Mother lode of learning.

Patience helps us to view imperfections in others more generously to the end that we may learn to be more wise than they have been.

Our God does not indulge us, but He is merciful toward our weaknesses as He strives to tutor us.

We must endure the contempt of others without reciprocating that contempt.