Loud & Clear

Leadership Summit favorite quotes

Written by Aron Strong on August 9, 2008 – 3:02 pm -

The Leadership Summit was awesome.  Here’s some of my favorite quotes:

Gary Haugen, CEO & Founder of International Justice Mission
“Just because I am leading, and people are following doesn’t mean I am leading them in things that matter.”

“Are Jesus and I really interested in the same things?”

“What’s God’s plan for making it believable that he is good? We are the plan. There’s no other plan.”

“People will take care for themselves the work that is easy and fun. Leaders must lead in the areas that feel frightening and really difficult.”

“Jesus did not come to make us safe. He came to make us brave.”

Bill George, Harvard Business School professor & former CEO
“People who fail, don’t fail to lead others. They fail to lead themselves.”

Wendy Kopp, Founder of Teach for America
“It’s your personal conviction in this that enables you to ask people to sacrifice to achieve the vision.”

“We channel the greatest future leaders against our greatest social injustice.”

John Burke, Gateway Community Church lead pastor
“The religious leaders didn’t like Jesus’ messy ministry. They wanted it to look clean on the outside.”

“Are we leading others to look at people through the eyes of grace?”

“Spiritual growth is scandalously easy. A child can do it. Are you growing your relationship with God?”

“Seekers aren’t opposed to truth… But what they are opposed to is arrogance.”

Craig Groeschel, LifeChurch.tv lead pastor
“You have everything you need to accomplish what God wants you to. Not having what YOU think you need makes you look for the thing GOD thinks you need to accomplish his will.”

“People say failure is not an option. I agree. Failure is a necessity.”

“You are not what people say of you. You are a child of God, gifted by God and led by God to have everything you need to do what God put you here to do.”

Chuck Colson, Prison Fellowship Ministries Founder & prolific author
“Stop blaming the culture when everything goes wrong.”

“Culture is nothing more than religion incarnate.”

“We don’t impose, we propose.”

Catherine Rohr, Prison Entrepreneurship Program CEO & Founder
“I felt compelled to give them a solution where they had no option to fail when they got out.”

“My prayer was simple. ‘Bring it on, God. Bring it on.’”

“God doesn’t really need me. He just needs me to follow instructions.”

“I sacrifice a lot of privacy for accountability. And it’s worth it.”

“These guys understand what it is to be willing to die for something. And that does something special to our culture.”

“This isn’t about pity. We hope this is about compassion. Suffering with people and taking them to the next level.”

Mother Teresa’s commitments she made to God and never compromised:

• Say yes to God in everything.
• Respond to God promptly.
• Refuse God nothing.
• Seek to love God as he has never been loved before.

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