Quotes on Leadership

“Leaders are first and foremost models of faith before they are models of ministry. So when you study what God is doing through other great leaders, make sure you look most closely at their faith.” -Steven Furtick

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“The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.” "-Kenneth Blanchard

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“Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.” -Warren B. Bennis
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“I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not followers.” -Ralph Nader

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“The greatest crisis in the world today is a crisis of leadership, and the greatest crisis in leadership is a crisis of character.” -Howard Hendricks
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“If you aren’t delegating, you are robbing someone of that opportunity!” -Mark Patterson

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“Remember that power comes through you, not from you.” -Fred Smith Sr.

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“Everyone has some gifts, therefore all should be encouraged. Nobody has all the gifts, therefore all should be humble. All gifts are from the Lord, therefore all should be contented.” -Arthur T. Pierson
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“Opportunity doesn’t equal obligation.” -Andy Stanley
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“One of the biggest mistakes pastors make is trying to be all things to all people. If you try to be all things to all people, you’ll end up being nothing to nobody.” -Mark Patterson

“A leader is a person with a magnet in his heart and a compass in his head.” -Robert Townsend
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“The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.” -Field Marshal Ferdinand Foch

Quotes on Suffering

“Christian hope does not rest in the denial of hard things, but in their redemption." -Tim Chaddick

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The big question is not, “Why do we suffer?” The question is “How do we suffer?” -Richard Cimino

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"Mountaintops are for views and inspiration, but fruit is grown in the valleys.” -Billy Graham

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”A rebuke is not so much punishment as it is illumination” -William Barclay

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"The best antidote for self-pity is to help someone else who is worse off than you." Corrie ten Boom

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“God's way of answering the Christian's prayer for more patience, experience, hope, and love often is to put him into the furnace of affliction.”  -Richard Cecil

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"I am no longer anxious about anything, as I realize the Lord is able to carry out His will, and His will is mine. It makes no matter where He places me, or how. That is rather for Him to consider than for me; for in the easiest positions He must give me His grace, and in the most difficult, His grace is sufficient.” - Hudson Taylor

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“Hard times are a passport that gives you permission to go places you wouldn’t get to any other way.” -Levi Lusko

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“God's plans for you are better than any plans you have for yourself. So don't be afraid of God's will, even if it's different from yours.” -Greg Laurie

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“Refuse to let your situation determine your attitude.” -Charles R. Swindoll

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“Leadership is pain. When your leadership grows, your tolerance for pain has to grow.” – Dr. Sam Chand

Quotes on Prayer

“Prayer is the vital breath of Christians. Not the thing that makes us alive, but the evidence we are alive.” - Oswald Chambers 

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“As it is the business of tailors to make clothes and of cobblers to mend shoes, so it is the business of Christians to pray.” - Martin Luther”

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“Talking to men for God is a great thing, but talking to God for men is greater still.” - E.M. Bounds

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“Through prayer, our hearts are aligned with God’s heart so that we gain spiritual insight.”  - Bruce Zachary

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“When we depend upon organizations, we get what organizations can do; when we depend upon education, we get what education can do; when we depend upon man, we get what man can do; but when we depend upon prayer, we get what God can do.” -A.C. Dixon

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“Reading a book about prayer, listening to lectures and talking about it is very good, but it won’t teach you to pray. You get nothing without exercise, without practice. I might listen for a year to a professor of music playing the most beautiful music, but that won’t teach me to play an instrument.” -Andrew Murray”

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"If you are strangers to prayer you are strangers to power." - Billy Sunday

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“Most of the great movements of God can be traced to a small group of people He called together to begin praying.” - Donald Whitney

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“Little prayer, little power. Much prayer, much power.” - Rick Warren

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"He who kneels the most, stands the best.” -Dwight L. Moody

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“Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden” -Corrie Ten Boom

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“It is possible to move men, through God, by prayer alone.” -Hudson Taylor

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“Prayer is the way you defeat the devil, reach the lost, restore a backslider, strengthen the saints, send missionaries out, cure the sick, accomplish the impossible, and know the will of God.” -David Jeremiah

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“There are more battles won through prayer than by any other means.” -Chuck Smith

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”Prayer is the great engine to overthrow and rout my spiritual enemies, the great means to procure the graces of which I stand in hourly need.” - John Newton

Quotes on The Bible

“Christians who neglect the Bible simply do not mature.” -John Stott

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"The Bible is the Constitution of Christianity” -Billy Graham

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“The Bible will keep you from sin, or sin will keep you from the Bible”. -Dwight L. Moody

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“Christians cannot live victoriously when disconnected from the Word of God” - Brian Brodersen

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"Nothing less than a whole Bible can make a whole Christian." -A. W. Tozer

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”The bible is a mine that can never be exhausted of all of it's treasures." - Levi Lusko

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“A Bible that’s falling apart usually belongs to someone who isn’t.” -Charles H. Spurgeon

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"The Bible is the book of my life. It's the book I live with, the book I live by, the book I want to die by." -N. T. Wright

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“The Bible is to me the most precious thing in the world just because it tells me the story of Jesus.” -George MacDonald

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"Nobody ever outgrows Scriptures;  the Book widens and deepens with our years” -Charles H Spurgeon

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“Just as you must eat, drink, and breathe to live, you must read the Bible, pray, and be involved in a church to stay spiritually alive and vital. You never will outgrow these things.” -Greg Laurie

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“The Bible is not an end in itself, but a means to bring men to an intimate and satisfying knowledge of God, that they may enter into Him, that they may delight in His Presence, may taste and know the inner sweetness of the very God Himself in the core and center of their hearts.” - A. W. Tozer

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“We must allow the Word of God to confront us, to disturb our security, to undermine our complacency and to overthrow our patterns of thought and behavior.” -John Stott

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“Biblical orthodoxy without compassion is surely the ugliest thing in the world.” -Francis Schaeffer

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“There's no better book with which to defend the Bible than the Bible itself.” -Dwight L. Moody