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Quotes About Faith

Disappointment comes when reality falls short of our expectations. But nothing falls short of God's expectations because He knows everything.
~ John C. Maxwell
All I was responsible to do was share Christ with the person. It's not my job to save him or her. The failure lies in being one who never shares his or her faith with others. Fear of rejection, mistakes, and failure causes people to make the worst mistake of all—that of doing nothing. When you make a mistake, you can resolve never to make another one.
~ John C. Maxwell
St. Francis of Assisi said, "Start doing what is necessary; then do what is possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
~ John C. Maxwell
Don't let your mandate come from the grumbling of the crowd. Get your cues from God and the mission He has given you.
~ John C. Maxwell
Cuando usted hace un compromiso con otra persona, usted genera esperanza. Cuando cumple ese compromiso, genera confianza.
~ John C. Maxwell
There is nothing more tragic than when a Christian leader loses God's anointing on his life by allowing himself to become sidetracked. There is no higher violation of God's trust. For when a leader stumbles, others fall.
~ John C. Maxwell
si hay poca o ninguna confianza, no hay fundamento para el éxito permanente.
~ John C. Maxwell
I feel like one little fellow who knelt at the side of his bed, closed his eyes, and prayed, "God bless Mom. God bless Dad. God bless Grandma." He said it the same way every time. But one night he added, "And please take care of yourself, God. 'Cause if anything happens to you, we're all sunk!
~ John C. Maxwell
General Douglas MacArthur said, "Youth is not entirely a time of life; it is a state of mind. Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old by deserting their ideals.… You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope, as old as your despair.
~ John C. Maxwell
What you believe identifies who you are.
~ John C. Maxwell
A belief is not just an idea that you possess; it is an idea that possesses you.
~ John C. Maxwell
8But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
~ John C. Maxwell
So often we lack desire because our delight is not great enough. God promises us that if we delight in him, we will desire things we need, and he will give them to us.
~ John C. Maxwell
Such sober warnings in the Word of God should impress upon us the importance of keeping our priorities straight: God first, family second, ministry or career third. Only when a leader's relationship to God is right, and only when responsibilities as a family member are being properly met, can the leader be fully faithful in exercising the ministry God has given him or her.
~ John C. Maxwell
Si usted no cree en el mensajero, no creerá en el mensaje». —JAMES M. KOUZES Y BARRY Z. POSNER
~ John C. Maxwell
La experiencia no garantiza la credibilidad, pero motiva a las personas a dar la oportunidad de probar que se es capaz.
~ John C. Maxwell
French writer, poet, and art critic Guillaume Apollinaire wrote, Come to the edge. No, we will fall. Come to the edge. No, we will fall. They came to the edge. He pushed them and they flew.
~ John C. Maxwell
El optimismo es una virtud pasiva; la esperanza es activa. No se necesita valor para ser optimista, pero se necesita mucho valor para tener esperanza».
~ John C. Maxwell
Borrowed beliefs have no passion, therefore no power.
~ John C. Maxwell
John, trust your future to God.
~ John C. Maxwell
Model: Ezra committed himself first to study God's Word, then to practice it, then to communicate it to the rest of Israel.
~ John C. Maxwell
Cuando Dios quiere educar a alguien, no lo envía a la escuela de la gracia sino a la de las necesidades.
~ John C. Maxwell
It's not what you do that matters as much as what God does through you.
~ John C. Maxwell
Sometimes we get to see the miracle. Others times we get to be the miracle.
~ John C. Maxwell