L. E. Maxwell Quotes

Eventually, there will not be enough prisons if there are not enough good homes.

The authority of example and considerations of character, unlike pudding, are not whipped up in an instant.

We can hold to the iron rod even if others slip away and a few end up mocking us from "the great and spacious building."

At the center of our agency is our freedom to form a healthy attitude toward whatever circumstances we are placed in!

The scriptures offer us so many doctrinal diamonds. And when the light of the Spirit plays upon their several facets, they sparkle with celestial sense and illuminate the path we are to follow.

Empathy during agony is a portion of divinity.

We can be walking witnesses and standing sermons to which objective onlookers can say a quiet amen.

So much depends, therefore, upon our maintaining gospel perspective in the midst of ordinariness, the pressures of temptation, tribulation, deprivation, and the cares of the world.

It's service, not status, that counts.

Even the good can become careless without the Lord's being there to chasten.

True discipleship is for volunteers only. Only volunteers will trust the Guide sufficiently to follow Him in the dangerous ascent which only He can lead.

God is very serious about joy in the lives of His children.

Sometimes, if you're like me, [God] will brace or reprove in a highly personal process not understood or appreciated by those outside the context.

Education brightens a darkened world.

The charity of good women is such that their 'love makes no parade'; they are not glad 'when others go wrong'; they are too busy serving to sit statusfully about, waiting to be offended.

The flame of family can warm us and at the same time be a perpetual pilot light to rekindle us.

Selfishness is much more than an ordinary problem because it activates all the cardinal sins! It is the detonator in the breaking of the Ten Commandments.

Regarding trials, including of our faith and patience, there are no exemptions-only variations.

Those of little faith mistake local cloud cover for general darkness. Keeping spiritually intact results in our keeping precious perspective by seeing "things as they really are."

There will be many fine and wonderful men and women of all races and creeds-and of no religious creeds at all-who will lead decent and useful lives.

We are in bondage to that which overcomes us. See also 2 Peter 2:19.

Ultimate hope constitutes the anchor of the soul.

Unproductive worry - like Parkinson's proverbial law - tends to expand to fill the time available.

I know sanctification comes not with any particular calling, but with genuine acts of service, often for which there is no specific calling.

Truly we work and live on a streetful of splendid people, whom we are to love and serve even if they are uninterested in us!

You can't pander to your audience. You might in the short term, but ultimately you can't hoodwink them, either.

I know what I want at least, and the older I get I think I'm better at getting it out of players and singers.

I'm not actually teaching any more, but I am writing pieces for schools all the time, and for kids.

What's perfect now, might not be so 10 years hence. Whatever we're basing our design ideas on is not what we remember in the past. It's something that kind of folds in on itself.

Making work without memory is probably one of my biggest fears. It would be indistinguishable from work that is lazy.

I keep on repeating, I'll say it for the last time-I'm not on some ego trip.

For men love what they cannot have, and hate what they cannot control.

If you find a way to write with open heart to Diary, a friend with Truth, no detail spared, your tome like Petrarch’s works will contain the scattered fragments of your soul.

Am I pretty? I must be, I thought, for all girls in love are pretty.

The country is in an extraordinary ferment.

My father represented authority, which meant—to me—that he could not also represent understanding.

I am the cat that walks alone.

Who knows what oversensitive is, considering all there is to be sensitive to.

It's deprivation that makes people writers, if they have it in them to be a writer.

Success is...knowing your purpose in life, growing to reach your maximum potential, andsowing seeds that benefit others.

Success is more than just power or not violating the rights of others it is the privilege of contributing to the betterment of others.

As you start your day, are you wondering what you will reap, or are you wondering what you will sow?

Leadership isn't about winning. It's about bringing people with you to the finish line.

Life is 10% of what happens to us and 90% of how we react to it

Nothing's work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

Every person has a longing to be significant, to make a contribution, to be a part of something noble and purposeful.

Advice is what we ask for when we already knew the answer but wish we didn't.

Experience alone isn’t a good enough teacher – evaluated experience is.

You never really know something until you teach it to someone else.

The closest to perfection people ever come is when they write their resumes .