Rudeness is a weak man's imitation of strength.
Eric Hoffer
Leadership requires two things: A version of the world that does not yet exist and the ability to communicate it
Simon Sinek
Leadership begins in the moment when someone else's flourishing is as important to you as your own.
Henri Nouwen
The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence; it is to act with yesterday's logic.
Drucker
Personal attachment to the Lord Jesus and to His perspective is the one thing that must not be overlooked. In missionary work the great danger is that God's call will be replaced by the needs of the people, to the point that human sympathy for those needs will absolutely overwhelm the meaning of being sent by Jesus
Oswald Chambers
The key to the missionary's work is the authority of Jesus Christ, not the needs of the lost.
Oswald Chambers
Personal attachment to the Lord Jesus and to His perspective is the one thing that must not be overlooked. In missionary work the great danger is that God's call will be replaced by the needs of the people, to the point that human sympathy for those needs will absolutely overwhelm the meaning of being sent by Jesus
Oswald Chambers
The key to the missionary's work is the authority of Jesus Christ, not the needs of the lost.
Oswald Chambers
For the saint, direction and guidance come from God Himself, not some measure of that saint's usefulness. It is the work that God does through us that counts, not what we do for Him.
Oswald Chambers
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.
Mark Twain
Leadership requires two things: 'A version of the world that does not yet exist and the ability to communicate it.
Simon Sinek
Our tendency today is to put the emphasis on service. Beware of the people who make their request for help on the basis of someone's usefulness. If you make usefulness the test, then Jesus Christ was the greatest failure who ever lived.
Oswald Chambers
Leadership begins in the moment when someone else's flourishing is as important to you as your own.
Henri Nouwen
Personal attachment to the Lord Jesus and to His perspective is the one thing that must not be overlooked. In missionary work the great danger is that God's call will be replaced by the needs of the people, to the point that human sympathy for those needs will absolutely overwhelm the meaning of being sent by Jesus
Oswald Chambers
The key to the missionary's work is the authority of Jesus Christ, not the needs of the lost.
Oswald Chambers
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.
Mark Twain
Leadership requires two things: 'A version of the world that does not yet exist and the ability to communicate it.
Simon Sinek
Leadership begins in the moment when someone else's flourishing is as important to you as your own.
Henri Nouwen
When clarity is needed, nothing else will do.
N Scott McClelland
Leadership is meant to make strength productive.
N Scott McClelland
Leadership is defined by results, not attributes.
Drucker
Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.
Peter F. Drucker
this is not for children or small adults....
N Scott McClelland
Making good decisions is a crucial skill at every level.
Drucker
Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.
Drucker
Refuse to be average. Let your heart soar as high as it will.
AW Tozer
We are not diplomats but prophets, and our message is not a compromise but an ultimatum.
Tozer
To be right with God has often meant to be in trouble with men.
Tozer
Faith, as Paul saw it, was a living, flaming thing leading to surrender and obedience to the commandments of Christ.
Tozer
Approach life with purpose, or (a lesser) one will be provided for you.
Michael Barrett
For the eyes of the LORD move to and fro throughout the earth that He may strongly support those whose heart is completely His.
OT
One of the the main purposes (and results) of getting closer to the Lord is becoming more and more like Him.
Scott McClelland
In our own minds we might be quite mature, but God sees us all as children in need.
N Scott McClelland
There is a widespread conviction that Christianity cannot survive in anything like its present form
Philip Jenkins, The Next Christendom
The institutions of man are temporary, but what God does lasts forever.
Scott McClelland
Feed your mind the light of Heaven! (avoiding the elaborate schemes of this age to make perversity attractive)....
N Scott McClelland
All truth passes thru 3 stages; 1st - ridiculed 2nd - violently opposed 3rd - taken as being self-evident.
Arthur Schopenhauer
If nothing is at stake then all viewpoints have an equal chance of being true.
do not destroy
For God was pleased to live in Christ and through him God reconciled everything to Himself.... by means of Christ's blood on the cross.
NT
How will we escape if we neglect so great a salvation' After it was at the first spoken through the Lord, it was' http://read.ly/Heb2.3.NASB
NT
Man is fascinating, even in a fallen state. How much more as the bearer of the glory of God'!
N Scott McClelland
Spiritual authority is the most dangerous of occupations.
N Scott McClelland
What is it about us that makes us receive the encouragement personally and think the challenges are for someone else'
The responsible always bear the weight of the irresponsible.
N Scott McClelland
Remember that lost time does not return.
Thomas a Kempis
An humble knowledge of thyself is a surer way to God than a deep search after learning.
Thomas a Kempis
At the Day of Judgment, we shall not be asked what we have read, but what we have done.
Thomas a Kempis
How quickly passes away the glory of this world.
Thomas a Kempis
Purity and simplicity are the two wings with which man soars above the earth and all temporary nature.
Thomas a Kempis
If thou wilt receive profit, read with humility, simplicity and faith, and seek not at any time the fame of being learned.
Thomas a Kempis
If, however, you seek Jesus in all things, you will surely find Him
Thomas a Kempis
Where there is no vision, the people perish.
Solomon
In humility, Jesus disguises Himself. How well do we know Him' Sadly, He often passes unnoticed, or as a well intentioned fool.
N Scott McClelland
The gospel of Jesus Christ is the most important enterprise.
N Scott McClelland
How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of them who bring good news.....
Isaiah
We are all missionaries. Wherever we go, we either bring people nearer to Christ, or we repel them from Christ.
Eric Liddell
I believe that God made me for a purpose, but He also made me fast. When I run, I feel His pleasure.
Eric Liddell
Insecurity produces the need to dominate.
John Dawson
If the Master is glorified, the servant should be satisfied.
John Dawson
As for me, may I never boast about anything except the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ. Because of that cross, my interest in this world has been crucified, and the world's interest in me has also died.
Paul
We will never have more affection or passion for God than we understand He has for us.
Mike Bickle
We will never be more committed to God than our understanding of His commitment to us.
Mike Bickle
Our significance, as Christians, does not come from the approval of men, but from the approval of God.
Francis Frangipane
Dare to follow Jesus away from the crowd.
N Scott McClelland
Dear brothers, it is better to listen much, speak little, and don't react.
James
The grace for character transformation is a love relationship.
John Dawson
Time is short, and souls are precious.
Jorge Parrott
Parts exist in contemplation of the whole.
Drucker
In the knowledge economy everyone is a volunteer, but we have trained our managers to manage conscripts.
Drucker
Evangelism is telling people to believe in Jesus; missions is telling people there's a Jesus to believe in.'
George Murray via Vince Corcoran
In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy's country whole and intact; to shatter and destroy it is not so good. Sun Tzu's Art of War
ss. 3.1: Attack by Stratagem
An executive is a person who makes their decisions in contemplation of the effects such decisions will have on the entire organization.
Peter Drucker
The higher the calling, the more difficult the ascent.
N Scott McClelland
In humility, in simplicity, go forward.
Scott McClelland
A good bit of the animation surrounding 'social networking' only reaffirms the fact that we expect our identity, answers, meaning to be found in other people.
Scott McClelland
The path to a supernatural lifestyle is: In private you cry out to God, in public you take risk
Bill Johnson
Most Christians repent enough to be forgiven but not enough to see the Kingdom.
Bill Johnson
You can't release a word that changes history until it has changed you.
Bill Johnson
All great, earth shaking events have been brought about by the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler, 1924
Long-term commitment to new learning and new philosophy is required of any management that seeks transformation. The timid and the fainthearted, and the people that expect quick results, are doomed to disappointment.
W Edwards Deming
Massive training is required to instill the courage to break with tradition.
W Edwards Deming
In so many ways, we are still looking for independent legitimacy, just like our forbears at the tower of Babel.... to make a name for ourselves.
Scott McClelland
Your signature, Jesus, is humility. If we cannot recognize this, we will miss most of what You are doing.
Scott McClelland
How do we continue to walk in humility after we begin to see results and fruit from our obedience'
Scott McClelland
To the defiance of the spirit of the age, we must realize that commerce is not the essence of life.
N Scott McClelland
What if the ministry in our times is like the priesthood was in Martin Luther's time'
Scott McClelland
The time between when we sense or know something and when it takes place is given to us to for preparation.
Scott McClelland
Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and turns into a racket.
Eric Hoffer
It is not your business to succeed, but to do right; when you have done so, the rest lies with God.
CS Lewis
Contrary to everything your TV tells you, products can never deliver joy, no matter how refined. Cast off the gospel of commerce!
N Scott McClelland
Most political sermons teach the congregation nothing, except what newspapers are taken at the rectory.
CS Lewis
For if the bugle produces an indistinct sound, who will prepare himself for battle'
1Cor14:8
To live your life, in God's will, nothing compares. To live out God's will; obscurity, assurances, uncertainties and reward. Few so live.
Scott McClelland
God is displeased when any man thinks he can go it alone.
Tony Hedrick
Empty promises, from empty hearts to empty wallets.
N Scott McClelland
If this century proves one thing, it is the futility of politics
Drucker
Prosperity knits a man to the World. He feels he's finding his place in it, while really it is finding its place in him.
CS Lewis
The kingdoms of this world are unified in opposition, to defy the Lord's influence over them b/c they see it as bondage and imprisonment
Ps2
If we don't find grace in Your sight, then all of our labors will come to nothing.
Scott McClelland
Do the lives we are living reveal that we are prepared for the ultimate times that are approaching us'
Scott McClelland
In this life a cross, and in the next a crown!
N Scott McClelland
Somewhere we have come to believe that good leadership requires a safe distance from those we are called to lead.
Henri Nouwen
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Abraham Lincoln
Expect great things from God; attempt great things for God.
William Carey
Then the Spirit of the Lord took possession of Gideon. He blew a ram's horn as a call to arms...
Judges 6:34
My nourishment comes from doing the will of God, who sent me, and from finishing his work.
Jesus
The bankruptcy of the West is that it judges quality of life in purely natural / commercial terms.
N Scott McClelland
Lord Jesus, help us to see life more in a sense of what it is meant to be!
The height of the conflict between darkness and light rises.
Scott McClelland
Religion is what you are left with when the Spirit leaves the building.
Bono
We are all bit players in a story authored by the Father; & do not write the story, they live, and act, and serve at the direction of the Father; playing different roles, we all have one focus; we are servants.
No one is willing to be led farther than he can see.
Thomas a Kempis
We must meet the uncertainties of this world with the certainties of the world to come.
Tozer
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
Robert Louis Stevenson
For every child of God defeats this evil world, and we achieve this victory through our faith.
1John5:4
The market' has a major role to play on the dark side in the end times.
N Scott McClelland
In life, as in business, making good decisions is a crucial skill at every level of responsibility.
Expanding on Drucker
God weighs the love with which a man acts rather than the deed itself.
Thomas a Kempis
Do you borrow your legitimacy, or do you have your own'
Scott McClelland
Let all things be loved for the sake of Jesus, but Jesus for His own sake.
Thomas a Kempis
They who love Jesus for His own sake, and not for the sake of comfort for themselves, bless Him in every trial and anguish of heart, no less than in the greatest joy.
Thomas a Kempis
You can have a lot to live on and still have nothing to live for.
Rick Warren
God made you so He could love you.
Rick Warren
To give someone a blessing is the most significant affirmation we can offer.
Henri Nouwen
Then I observed that most people are motivated to success because they envy their neighbors.
Solomon
Unless you assume a God, the question of life's purpose is meaningless.
Bertrand Russell, atheist
Jesus is the centerpiece of all that we believe.
Hebrews 3, The Message
To preach the gospel'not with wisdom and eloquence, lest the cross of Christ be emptied of its power.
Paul
Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion.
Jim Rohn
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
Jim Rohn
Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.
Jim Rohn
Don't just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.
Jim Rohn
Make measurable progress in reasonable time.
Jim Rohn
Much of what is being espoused as relationship-based Christianity is referring to a relationship with someone's position or organization. By this we are being robbed.
N Scott McClelland
True spiritual wisdom is imparted in words taught by the Spirit, not by human wisdom.
Paul
Many of those who are called to do something new have become content to fight with what is instead.
N Scott McClelland
If God makes all the decisions for you then you have nothing to give an account for at the end of your days.
Eric Johnson
The time of celebrity Christian leaders is passing away.
N Scott McClelland
Ministry is supposed to come out of who we are, not what we can do through our spiritual gifts.
Bill Johnson
The closer you live to God, the smaller everything else appears.
Rick Warren
Not that we think we're qualified to do anything on our own. Our qualification comes from God. He has enabled us....
Paul
The Christian life is about ascending levels of obedience, with growing levels of risk, so much so that in full maturity, we can say, with Jesus, not my will but Yours be done Father, even to the point of death.
Scott McClelland
I must preach the kingdom of God to the other cities also, for I was sent for this purpose.
Jesus
I have told you all this so that you may have peace in me. Here on earth you will have many trials and sorrows. But take heart, because I have overcome the world
Jesus
Lord, help us to know the simplicity of dependence.
Yuri Nosenko
Wisdom is vindicated by all her children.
Jesus
No learning is complete without a test.
N Scott McClelland
A great quote is the highest form of literature, needing no context to liberate a life, save a soul, or direct a destiny.
Rick Warren
During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
George Orwell
Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes... but no plans.
Peter Drucker
For spiritual nature, like bodily nature, will be served; deny it food and it will gobble poison.
CS Lewis
Friendship with God is reserved for those who reverence Him.
Proverbs
For spiritual nature, like bodily nature, will be served; deny it food and it will gobble poison.
CS Lewis
Avoid comparisons, resist exaggerations, and seek only God's commendation.
Paul
If my life is fruitless, it doesn't matter who praises me, and if my life is fruitful, it doesn't matter who criticizes me.
John Bunyan
Anyone can be a servant. All it requires is character.
Rick Warren
You can tell what they are by what they do.
Jesus
If you wait for perfect conditions, you will never get anything done.
When Christ shows up again on this earth, you'll show up too, the real you, the glorious you. Meanwhile, be content with obscurity.
Paul
You can't truly rest until every area in your life rests in God.
AW Tozer
Fallen man is not simply an imperfect creature who needs improvement: he is a rebel who must lay down his arms.
CS Lewis
Talent is a real killer.... because there are a lot of forces in the world looking for a voice, and they don't mind destroying their hosts.
Scott McClelland
Sometimes the only people you're going to find on the narrow path are you and God. Keep going anyway.
Joyce Meyer
If you would persevere in seeking perfection, you must consider yourself a pilgrim, an exile on earth.
Thomas a Kempis
Friendship with God is reserved for those who reverence Him. With them alone He shares the secrets of His promises.
Psalms
If you make disciples you always get the church. But if you make a church you rarely get disciples.
Mike Breen
The wisdom of the sensible is to understand his way......
Solomon
You have come to serve, not to rule.
thomas a kempis
Your grace is sustaining our lives / life itself. Surrounded by it, without realizing it, we continue on as if nothing were steadying us.
N Scott McClelland
Fiddling while Rome Burns' - meaning to occupy oneself with unimportant matters and neglect priorities during a crisis.
The God who fits in a box isn't the God & Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
AW Tozer
Every job is a self-portrait of the person who did it.
Unknown
God's promises are invitations, not gaurantees.
Mike Bickle
The first reaction of an organization whose theory is becoming obsolete is almost always a defensive one.
Drucker
When idols have territory in our hearts, we don't see them as idols, but as divine influences.
1voice
We are all weak and broken people, but often we are out of touch with our neediness.
Scott McClelland
If you don't have a system for building people up and sending them out, you're just building a crowd.
Rick Warren
One road leads home, and a thousand roads lead into the wilderness.
CS Lewis
Jesus said that they joined in their father's sins by memorializing the martyred prophets but not living by their example. Let's watch out!
N Scott McClelland
We don't determine whats relevant for others, we discover it (instead) by being present...
Ron Graves
Most of life's 'gifts' come wrapped in struggle paper
Ron Graves
Most of life's 'gifts' come wrapped in struggle paper; relationship is about keeping the aspect of 'celebration' a part of this phenomenon...
Ron Graves
Any cost of selfishness is greatly exaggerated
Ron Graves
When we find folks 'needing' to be right about something, 9 times outta 10 there's a hurt beneath it.
Ron Graves
Grace allows others to come to their own conclusions
Ron Graves
We are by the nature of our calling actually 'agents of change'....
Ron Graves
Do you wish to be great' Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric' Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation.
Augustine
The best leaders are not those with the most followers, but those who leave the best leaders behind them.
Neil Cole
Live in response to the Father, not in reaction to the darkness.
Bill Johnson
You do not have because you do not ask.
James
You do not have because you do not ask.
James
Our vision for tomorrow determines how we will live today.
Dale Rumble
We are living in a time of restoration as Christ is restored to His rightful place in the church.
Dale Rumble
For many individuals professional training means power. But the minister, who disrobes to wash the feet of his friends,is powerless...
Henri Nouwen
One of the ways God measures our spiritual maturity is in the quality of our relationships.
Rick Warren
At some point along the timeline of your life, you'll have to decide to be recorded in earthly history books, or in God's book of life.
Scott McClelland
You never know how strong God's love for yours until it's all you need.
Jeff Gibson
We turn to God for help when our foundations are shaking,only to learn that it is God who is shaking them.
Charles C. West
It is the way we react to circumstances that determines our feelings.
Dale Carnegie
Spiritual gifts are like utensils. Christ is the substance. When eating a meal I don't give 2 much attention to spoons/forks. But the food.
Frank Viola
God took the worst thing that man could do to His Son, and transformed it into the best thing He could do for man.
Anonymous
The essence of surrender is getting out of God's way so that He can do in us what He wants to do through us.
Tozer
The success of love is in the loving.
Mother Teresa
Love is the root of missions. Sacrifice is the fruit of missions.
Roderick Davis
The evidence we are serving the people we lead is the ability to celebrate their leaving as much as we celebrated their arrival
Aaron Walsh
No one is capable of coming to me on his own. You get to me only as a gift from the Father.
Jesus
Apologizing does not always mean that you were wrong, it just means you value your relationships more than your ego.
Fight For Life
If a man does not know to what port he is steering, no wind is favorable to him.
Seneca
For since our friendship with God was restored by the death of his Son while we were still his enemies, we will certainly be saved through the life of his Son.
Paul, from Romans 5
Don't love money; be satisfied with what you have. For God has said, 'I will never fail you. I will never abandon you.'
Hebrews 13:5
The missionary task is not just simply another thing the church should be doing, but rather it's primary and most important task.
John R. Mott
Decide upon your major definite purpose in life and then organize all your activities around it.
Brian Tracy
Humility is the ultimate standard of greatness in the Kingdom of God.
Mike Bickle
The people who had epic faith in history didn't have epic faith as a goal. #obedience
N Scott McClelland
Salvation is free... Discipleship costs everything!
Billy Graham
The only way to grow leaders is to let them lead.
Rick Warren
Don't take the Lord's patience as endorsement for your sin. He is giving you time to repent.
Mike Bickle
The Church was a family in Jerusalem, became an institution in Rome, a political tool in Europe & a business in the USA. SAD!
Rick Warren
There is nothing worse than a gift that is not employed.
Matt Peterson
The season when the earth has sorrows like a woman in labor is the season when the church takes child birth classes. Prepare!
Kirk Bennett
Small people, casual remarks, and little things very often shape our lives more powerfully than the deliberate, solemn advice of great people in critical moments.
Winston Churchill
Disaster speaks for itself. Opportunity often requires an advocate.
Alan Axelrod
There are no closed doors for the gospel. You can go anywhere if you are willing to go and never come back.
Brother Andrew
You belong to God. Your life will be different because of this.
N Scott McClelland
Our greatest fear should not be of failure, but of succeeding at things in life that don't really matter.
Francis Chan
All roads lead to the judgment seat of Christ.
Keith Green
The modern organization must be a destabilizer; it must be organized for innovation.
Drucker
The way we do church meetings makes church meetings the point of what we are doing. This isn't what Jesus & His martyrs died to give us.
N Scott McClelland
Go means a change of location!
Loren Cunningham
Allow Him to be the source of all your dreams, joys, and delights, and be careful to go and obey what He has said.
Oswald Chambers
I thought it reasonable that I should seek the work where the work was the most abundant and the workers fewest.
Scottish missionary James Gilmour
Every experience God gives us, every person he puts into our lives, is the perfect preparation for a future only He can see.
Corrie Ten Boom
Spiritual maturity is a gradual, progressive development that will take the rest of your life.
Rick Warren
Self righteous = being irritated with other's weakness.
N Scott McClelland
Impartation is not what we come to give but what we come to participate in...
N Scott McClelland
The first missionaries went out because they were running for their lives.
Bill Johnson
All that we call human history--money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery--[is] the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy.
C.S. Lewis
True religion confronts earth with heaven and brings eternity to bear upon time.
AW Tozer
I feel I shall be buried for a time, hidden away in obscurity; then suddenly I shall flame out, do my work, and be gone.
Oswald Chambers
In a calm sea, every man is a captain.
Hemingway
There must be a beginning of any great matter, but the continuing unto the end until it be thoroughly finished yields the true glory.
Sir Francis Drake
Many might have attained to wisdom, had they not thought they had already attained it.
Seneca
Only the secure are humble.
GK Chesterton
I am motivated by doing a really good job at what ever I am doing, but I prefer to multiply my impact on society through a group of people.
John Thain
The apple seed is an apple orchard in disguise.
TD Jakes
The Church can't be a religious theater where paid men perform for the religious amusement of the people who pay them.
AW Tozer
To make a change, don't lead the masses. Lead the leaders.
Robert Kiyosaki
Without the cross, we're just a pious NGO, not the Church.
Pope Francis
The spirit of Christ is the spirit of missions. The nearer we get to Him, the more intensely missionary we become.
Henry Martyn
Ah, well, I am a great and sublime fool. But then I am God's fool, and all His work must be contemplated with respect.
Mark Twain
Dear children, keep away from anything that might take God's place in your hearts.
1John5
Why do we teach our young people the gospel of fundraising instead of the gospel of Jesus Christ'
N Scott McClelland
There are three essentials to leadership: humility, clarity and courage.
Fuchan Yuan
You have to be vulnerable to create art. Art is difficult if you're defensive.
Donald Miller
The only meaningful definition of a 'generalist' is a specialist who can relate his own small area to the universe of knowledge.
Peter Drucker
If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.
African proverb
Without individuals, nothing happens; without institutions, nothing survives.
Talleyrand
The day a company (or ministry) begins to be run for the benefit of the insiders, and not the benefit of the customers (those outside itself), is the day that the institution begins to die.
Drucker (with paraphrase)
..Christ-centered heroism does not need to be noticed or publicized.
Os Guinness
One repays a teacher badly if one always remains a pupil only.
Nietzsche
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal.
Henry Ford
We actually slander and dishonor God by our very eagerness to serve Him without knowing Him.
Oswald Chambers
The opportunity of a lifetime must be seized within the lifetime of the opportunity.
Leonard Ravenhill
What is to give light must first endure burning.
Viktor Frankl
Instead of desiring to see larger growing churches, we should desire to see larger growing Christians.
Rich Mullins
God is more interested in the size of your heart, than the size of your ministry.
Mike Bickle
Everybody thinks of changing humanity and nobody thinks of changing himself.
Leo Tolstoy
We must place upon our theology the demand that it work.
Francis Frangipane
God is more interested in your future and your relationships than you are.
Billy Graham
Our seeking God will lead us to identify with the work He has given us to do.
Norm Lewis
All leaders are learners. The moment you stop learning, you stop leading.
Rick Warren
When we pray 'Thy Kingdom come' do we realize that, simultaneously, we are asking for our self-centered kingdoms to go'
Francis Frangipane
There is no sin your not capable of given the right circumstances. Show me your friends, I'll show you your future.
Peter Haas
God cannot give us more than we can ask or imagine if we keep asking and imagining.
Maggie Ross
Action expresses priorities.
Mahatma Gandhi
Life is like a 10-speed bike. Most of us have gears we never use.
Charles Schulz
An obsession with growth has eclipsed our concern for sustainability, justice and human dignity. But people are not disposable ' the value of life lies outside economic development.
Vandana Shiva
Men who refuse to worship the true God [instead] worship themselves with tender devotion.
AW Tozer
A leader must not only manage results but expectations.
Rudy Giuliani
Anonymity is the essence of humility.
Edwin Louis Cole
A person is qualified to be responsible for success to the degree they are willing to be responsible for failure.
Edwin Louis Cole
Men, families and nations are not great by the virtue of their wealth but by the wealth of their virtue.
Edwin Louis Cole
The main reason we're on this earth is to learn to love.
Bob Jones
We grow small trying to be great.
E. Stanley Jones
Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes.
E. Stanley Jones
At the cross God wrapped his heart in flesh and blood and let it be nailed to the cross for our redemption.
E. Stanley Jones
Whatever our creed, we stand with admiration before the sublime character of Jesus.
E. Stanley Jones
You cannot fight hard unless you believe you are fighting to win.
Teddy Roosevelt
The greatest danger for us all is not that our goals are too high and we miss them, but that they are too low and we reach them.
Michelangelo
Faith is the least self-regarding of the virtues. It is by its very nature scarcely conscious of its own existence. Like the eye which sees everything in front of it and never sees itself, faith is occupied with the Object upon which it rests and pays no attention to itself at all.
AW Tozer
You can have a lot to live for no matter how much you have to live on.
Inspired by Rick Warren
You only have authority over the storm you can sleep in.
Bill Johnson
On every level of life, from housework to heights of prayer, in all judgment and efforts to get things done, hurry and impatience are sure marks of the amateur.
Evelyn Underhill
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
Albert Einstein
Jesus revealed a new paradigm for greatness. We are to focus on being great in His sight rather than in the sight of men.
Mike Bickle
Integrity means you have one united life.
N Scott McClelland
Give and it shall be given to you applies to every area of life... and it's not just an encouragement, it's a guarantee!
Scott McClelland
One of the first things that man begins to do when he feels or experiences a little success is to build monuments to himself.
Scott McClelland
Of all the insidious pretenders to the throne, the self life may well be the most determined.
Scott McClelland
Champions are men in whom courage has become visible.
Edwin Louis Cole
No blabbermouth gets to sit next to the throne.
Rick Joyner
Teach us to number our days carefully so that we may develop wisdom in our hearts.
Moses
Often, the first thing a person does with a little success is begin to construct monuments to themselves.
N Scott McClelland
Christianity should be an obsession with the person of Jesus Christ, not an obsession with principles trying to make life work.
David Haines
Vital Christianity has 3 pillars: 'inner life of devotion, outer life of service, intellectual life of clear, rational thinking.
Elton Trueblood (via Gary R. Collins)
If you are serious about becoming like Christ, He is going to put you in circumstances where your only true choice is to become like Him.
Francis Frangipane
Holy living consists in doing God's work with a smile.
Mother Teresa
Once you see the mold, you understand the Jell-O.
Jenna Miller
Just as man cannot live without dreams, he cannot live without hope. If dreams reflect the past, hope summons the future.
Elie Wiesel
The weak can never forgive. 'Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
Gandhi
Jesus was the temple to end all temples, the priest to end all priests, and the sacrifice to end all sacrifices.
Timothy Keller
Every person, religious or not, is worshipping something to get their worth.'
Timothy Keller
God wants me to love real people, not ideal people.
Rick Warren
Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.
Amy Muranko Gahan
The first job of leadership is to love people. Leadership without love is manipulation.
Rick Warren Rick Warren
People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.
Theodore Roosevelt
You can't go back to the ole' swimming hole.
Tony Hedrick's Dad
Ask not 'How can I achieve'' but 'What can I contribute''
Drucker
We are life long students of the ways of God; trouble starts when we think we have graduated.
John Paul Jackson
Faith removes the mountains which unbelief creates.
Reinhard Bonnke
A good leader leads the people from above them. A great leader leads the people from within them.
M.D. Arnold'
The purpose of talk is making decisions not more talking.
Dan Rockwell
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare. It is because we do not dare that things are difficult.
Seneca
If leadership is about people why are you so focused on projects.
Dan Rockwell
Idealism' is the enemy of growth, a source of condemnation and exhaustion.
David Harwood
It is foolish to buy things you don't need, with money you don't have, to impress people you don't like. 'Rick Warren
Rick Warren
The measure of an education is that you acquire some idea of the extent of your ignorance
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Christopher Hitchens
We must face the deficiency of our own love for others rather than being preoccupied with the deficiency of people's love towards us.
Candyce Hogan
If our goals eclipse our 'relationships we have the wrong goals.
David Harwood
There are three effects of nearness to Jesus: humility, happiness, holiness.
Charles Spurgeon
The secret to getting ahead is getting started.
Mark Twain
Education without action is entertainment.
Chris Lytle
True creativity is born out of God's desire to reveal His mysteries.
Ray Hughes
To know and not to do is not to know.
Chris Lytle
Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions.
T.S. Eliot
The easiest and most productive way to encourage others is to lead by example.
Kimberly Kay Foote
The ability to summon positive emotions during periods of intense stress lies at the heart of effective leadership.
Jim Loehr
Make some choices that don't make sense unless you will be raised from the dead.
John Piper
Life is about making an impact, not making an income.
Kevin Kruse
If you scorn the fellowship of the brethren, you reject the call of Jesus Christ, and thus your solitude can only be hurtful to you. (from Life Together)
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
A belief is only as strong as the action it produces.
Eric Smallridge
We don't need meetings that don't meet needs...
Tozer
It is not what a man does that determines whether his work is sacred or secular, it is why he does it.
AW Tozer
If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
If today's church does not recapture the sacrificial spirit of the early church, it will lose its authenticity, forfeit the loyalty of millions, and be dismissed as an irrelevant social club with no meaning for the twentieth century.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Whenever the Lord said He would be with someone, it meant that they had just been given an impossible assignment.
Bill Johnson
Everyone is living a lifestyle of worship....but not everyone knows what they are worshipping.
Jenna Coller
We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing...
Ronald David Laing
Change isn't change unless something changes!
Bill Corum
The height of spiritual wisdom is submission to Jesus Christ. This is a great paradox, "Those who humbles themselves will be exalted..."
Therefore, the less of me and the more of Him, the wiser I am. That is how simpletons are sages in God's kingdom. - Seth Wingate
Seth Wingate
[E]very time you make a choice you are turning the central part of you, the part of you that chooses, into something a little different than it was before... (Full quote here: )
CS Lewis on Decisions
When it comes down to it, the quality of your life is determined by the quality of your relationships.
Danny Silk
Culture is the sum of examples you set, the incentives you create, and the behaviors you reward: it's what nudges people to act in ways you'd be proud of.
Laura Weidman Powers
Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.
A Schopenhauer
In the beginning the church was a fellowship of men and women centering on the living Christ. Then the church moved to Greece, where it became a philosophy. Then it moved to Rome, where it became an institution. Next, it moved to Europe, where it became a culture. And, finally, it moved to America, where it became an enterprise. #clarity
Richard Halverson, former Chaplain of the United States Senate
"True 'holiness' is when you leave every person more alive than when you found them." - Bible in One Year 2019, Day 300
Holiness - via Kate Mc
Action beats intention when intention does not act.
Action
A word fitly spoken and in due season is like apples of gold in settings of silver. - Proverbs 25
A Word Fitly Spoken
We have to stop confusing economic value and human value.
Andrew Yang
The church that can't worship must be entertained. And men who can't lead a church to worship must provide the entertainment - AW Tozer
Tozer
Trust, once broken, will always show cracks
Scott McClelland
If you're not paying, you're the product, not the customer....
Seth Godin
So much of our content in Christianity today is highly polished, but minimally dangerous.
Scott McClelland
Don't talk about your dreams with people who want to protect you from heartache...
Seth Godin
A man can fail many times, but he is not a failure until he begins to blame someone else.
John Burroughs
'The fashion now is to tolerate anything lest we gain the reputation of being intolerant. The tender-minded saints cannot bear to see Agag slain, so they choose rather to sacrifice the health of the Church for years to come by sparing error and evil; and this they do in the name of Christian love.''
' The Life of A.W. Tozer: In Pursuit of God by James L. Snyder
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Tozer (written over 50 years ago)
Everything rises and falls on leadership. - John Maxwell
John Maxwell
We should not be so focused on avoiding what we don't want to do that we fail to do what we should.
Scott McClelland
Your position never gives you the right to command. It only imposes on you the duty of so living your life that others can receive your orders without being humiliated.
Dag Hammarskjold
Like the Party of Circumcision before them, many today take no responsibility for your life but only want to add you to their group so they can brag about their numbers.
Scott McClelland
We have so hopelessly ceded our humanity that for the modest handouts of today we are ready to surrender up all principles, our soul, all the labors of our ancestors, all the prospects of our descendants'anything to avoid disrupting our meager existence.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
If someone offers you an opportunity to humble yourself, or if you find one on your own, take it.
Scott McClelland
Victory begins with the name of Jesus on our lips; but it will not be consummated until the nature of Jesus is in our hearts.
Francis Frangipane
Leaders are dealers in hope.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Like gravity at a great distance, time's closing in on us is deceptively distant. But close it will.
Scott McClelland
Self promotion is not the yoke of Christ, who made Himself nothing.
Scott McClelland
If we don't remember we are on a mission, our lives turn to dust or idol worship...
A lot of money management is being done, not from a standpoint of 'good stewardship', but for a standpoint of affection.
Scott McClelland
The space between "difficult" and "impossible" is where all greatness lies.
Mark Sidney Frazer III
Nothing discloses real character like the use of power. It's easy for the weak to be gentle. Most people can bear adversity. But if you wish to know what a man really is, give him power. This is the supreme test. It is the glory of Lincoln that, having almost absolute power, he never abused it, except on the side of mercy.
Robert G. Ingresoll
What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us.
Tozer
The major heresy of the Western churches is that they have largely turned the very meaning of faith into its exact opposite. True faith involves not knowing and even not needing to know, but we made faith demanding to know and insisting that we do know!
Richard Rohr
I consider that the chief dangers which confront the coming century will be religion without the Holy Ghost, Christianity without Christ, forgiveness without repentance, salvation without regeneration, politics without God, and heaven without hell.
William Booth
Memory is the mother of all wisdom.
Aeschylus
I've been invited to many places that I wasn't welcome when I got there... #so_true
Bob Goff
Manhood and Christlikeness are synonymous.
Edwin Louis Cole
Grace never seems fair until you need some. '(Everybody Always Book, Page 205)
Bob Goff
We are not building God's kingdom. He is building His kingdom, and we are praying for the privilege of being involved.
Francis Schaeffer
There is a societal push for conformity in all ways.
Allen Francis
The future is already here it's just unevenly distributed
William Gibson
Often change is sold as progress when no progress comes from the change.'#misleaders
N Scott McClelland
Spouting off before listening to the facts is both shameful and foolish.
Proverbs 18:13 NLT
We must meet the uncertainties of this world with the certainty of the world to come...' #ThanksTozer
Tozer
Those who are successful overcome their fears and take action. Those who aren't submit to their fears and live with regrets.
Jay Z
Rudeness is a weak man's imitation of strength.
Eric Hoffer
The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page.
Saint Augustine
The most confident critics are generally those who know the least about the matter criticized.
Ulysses S Grant
Nowhere in our modern world is the radical deterioration of symbols more startlingly seen than in the de-sanctification 'of sexuality. 'People are looking for sex without love, for love without marriage, for marriage without responsibility.
Elisabeth Elliot, The Mark of a Man
It appears that a poet in history is divine, but a poet in the next room is a joke.
Max Eastman
Trust, once broken, will always show cracks.
N Scott McClelland
The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page
Saint Augustine
The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision. - Moses Maimonides, Jewish philosopher, jurist and physician (1135-1204)
Moses Maimonides
A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twain
Seemingly inherent in all deception is the avarice for converts.
N Scott McClelland
Interpreting the past by the present leads to overreactions, deceptions, and self in the name of righteousness (comparative righteousness).' This is a current tool of deceiving spirits which are getting significant results.
N Scott McClelland
When we mistakenly think we know how to be in a team and what we really know is how to be in charge, we do damage to ourselves and others, especially in the area of (potential) collaboration. 'In this place of deception, our leadership grows at the expense of the minimizing of other leaders, especially those who are emerging.
N Scott McClelland
The promise of 'change' when sold as 'progress' is a deception when no progress results from the change, and is often used as a stalling technique, or to postpone the inevitable by those whose credibility is being threatened or is at risk.
Change
Deception offers poison repackaged as nourishment.
Deception
Deception causes us to distrust and not to recognize the Lord's hand in our trouble. You are reaching out to us, trying to help us, but we respond to You as if You are our enemy, a threat.
Deception
No learning is complete without a test.
N Scott McClelland
The law makes hellions of us all.
N Scott McClelland
God will not have His work made manifest by cowards.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Pain is never out of season if you go shopping for it.
Timothy Ferriss
Life, shrinks, or expands in proportion to one's courage.
Anais Nin
Pride is a destroyer; it blinds you from real vision and puts delusion in it's place.'
N Scott McClelland
Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.
Henry Ford
What you seek is seeking you.
Rumi
Education without action is entertainment.
Chris Lytle
If you can dream and not make dreams your master.... You will be a man, my son!'
Rudyard Kipling
The first'reaction of an organization whose theory is becoming obsolete is almost always a defensive one.
Drucker
For the simplicity on this side of complexity, I wouldn't give you a fig. But for the simplicity on the other side of complexity, for that I would give you anything I have.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.
Eleanor Roosevelt
