John C. Maxwell Quotes

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

Could there be a greater proof of our cowardice than fighting amongst ourselves?

Before I had crossed the threshold of my church I was made to realize that I was shepherd of a divided flock.

My eyes are wide open to the conflicts within the Church, but I don't think you can call it schism.

Nations fight against nations, in marriages people fight against each other, children fight against each other. We are in warfare, in a national warfare, and in warfare with each other and with ourselves.

The UFC wants me to fight. The people want me to fight. I don't want me to fight.

I asked myself what Palestinians would do if Israel disappeared-if everything not only went back to the way it was before 1948 but if all the Jewish people abandoned the Holy Land and were scattered again. And for the first time, I knew the answer. We would still fight. Over nothing. Over a girl without a head scarf. Over who was toughest and most important. Over who would make the rules and who would get the best seat.

Every fight is one between different angles of vision illuminating the same truth.

Management and union may be likened to that serpent of the fables who on one body had two heads that fighting each other with poisoned fangs, killed themselves.

What happens in Senate fight club stays in Senate fight club.

There is nothing like the local church when the local church is working right.

I had to fight with myself 'cause he's so good, yet he's so popular.

I think there is tribalism is a big deal inside of the church, that the church thinks of themselves as a tribe and not a mission.

The itch of disputation will prove the scab of the Church.

Vision is something pastors and churches cannot afford to live without.

That was an interesting aspect: to go to war with the Church to fight for the very thing that the Church was meant to give to people.

The man who fights against his own country is never a hero.

I think I have great knowledge of - for military, and I think I have better vision for Syria than a lot of the so-called great military geniuses that are saying how to fight the war with Syria. In my opinion, they're doing just the opposite. Are we going to start World War III over Syria? Are we going to be there for the next 40 years?

Without a vision people and the church become self-centered. People start finding fault with one another and the church self-destructs.

We see that there are two worms that eat the fabric of the Church, weakening Her. Rivalry and vainglory go against this harmony, this agreement.

One side of the street is a Church; across the road is a liquor store. Both of 'em keepin us poor.

Our wills and fates do so contrary run.

In moments of crisis one is never fighting against an external enemy but always against one's own body.

I hope I can settle my internal conflicts without bloodshed.

It was a remarkable relationship. Margaret [Thatcher] and I had a love/hate relationship. She was always defending the South African regime and we had some terrible fights, including an enormous one in Canada.