"Every time we proclaim our goodness and purity, those who know us see our hypocrisy and those who don't know us think that the Christian faith is only for good and pure people. Frankly, I've never seen anyone come to Christ because of the purity of another Christian. If they did, it was despite that purity. Our witness is always one of beggars pointing to the source of the bread." - Steve Brown

"Always do right, it will gratify some people and astonish the rest." - Mark Twain

"Integrity is keeping my commitment even if the circumstances when I make the commitment have changed." - David Jeremiah

"Integrity is like the weather: everybody talks about it but nobody knows what to do about it... Integrity entails not only a discernment of the right action but a willingness to act on one's conclusions." - Stephen L. Carter in Integrity

"We as a nation too often lack integrity, which might be described, in a loose and colloquial way, as the courage of one's convictions. We, the people of the United States, who a little over 200 years ago ordained and established the Constitution, have a serious problem: too many of us nowadays neither mean what we say nor say what we mean. Moreover, we hardly expect anybody else to mean what they say either." - Stephen L. Carter

Integrity

"Every time we proclaim our goodness and purity, those who know us see our hypocrisy and those who don't know us think that the Christian faith is only for good and pure people. Frankly, I've never seen anyone come to Christ because of the purity of another Christian. If they did, it was despite that purity. Our witness is always one of beggars pointing to the source of the bread." - Steve Brown

"Always do right, it will gratify some people and astonish the rest." - Mark Twain

"Integrity is keeping my commitment even if the circumstances when I make the commitment have changed." - David Jeremiah

"Integrity is like the weather: everybody talks about it but nobody knows what to do about it... Integrity entails not only a discernment of the right action but a willingness to act on one's conclusions." - Stephen L. Carter in Integrity

"We as a nation too often lack integrity, which might be described, in a loose and colloquial way, as the courage of one's convictions. We, the people of the United States, who a little over 200 years ago ordained and established the Constitution, have a serious problem: too many of us nowadays neither mean what we say nor say what we mean. Moreover, we hardly expect anybody else to mean what they say either." - Stephen L. Carter

Integrity

"Are you proving that the Christian life is a joyful, happy thing? Do you look glad that you are a Christian? Does your life radiate joy and enthusiasm? Check yourself carefully on this before you teach it. Make the Christian life contagious." - Henrietta Mears in Dream Big: The Henrietta Mears Story

"The modern world has had far too little understanding of the art of keeping young. Its notion of progress has been to pile one thing on top of another, without caring if each thing was crushed in turn. People forgot that the human soul can enjoy a thing most when there is time to think about it and be thankful for it. And by crowding things together they lost the sense of surprise; and surprise is the secret of joy." - G.K. Chesterton

"The Bible talks plentifully about joy, but it nowhere talks about a 'happy Christian.' Happiness depends on what happens; joy does not. Remember, Jesus Christ had joy, and He prays 'that they might have My joy fulfilled in themselves." - Oswald Chambers in Run Today's Race

"Joy is not the same as pleasure or happiness. A wicked and evil man may have pleasure, while any ordinary mortal is capable of being happy. Pleasure generally comes from things, and always through the senses; happiness comes from humans through fellowship. Joy comes from loving God and neighbor. Pleasure is quick and violent, like a flash of lightning. Joy is steady and abiding, like a fixed star. Pleasure depends on external circumstances, such as money, food, travel, etc. Joy is independent of them, for it comes from a good conscience and love of God." - Fulton J. Sheen in Fulton J. Sheen's Guide to Contentment

"I once shared a platform with the nearly blind theologian Joseph Sittler, a man who really saw, and heard. He was asked, 'If you had to reduce a call for reformation of the church to one sentence, what would it say?' His answer: 'Watch your language.' The rest - including action for justice - follows language, speech, encouragement, judgment, and the like." - Martin Marty in Context, April 15, 1998

Joy

"The Christian who is ambitious to be a star disqualifies himself as a leader." - David Watson

"A leader is a person with a magnet in his heart and a compass in his head." - Vance Havner

"The great illusion of leadership is to think that man can be led out of the desert by someone who has never been there." - Henri Nouwen in The Wounded Healer

"As a leader, you provide for people only what they can't provide for themselves."

"Awkwardness is natural. If people aren't feeling awkward doing something new, they're not doing something new."

"Do not punish a learner. If you do, you'll immobilize him."

"In change, people feel alone, even if everyone is going through it."

"The biggest addiction we have to overcome is to the human ego. Why? Because ego stands for 'Edging God Out.'"

"Everyday, do something in relation to everything that is important to you."

"Change agents aren't loved, so you'd better get centered that you are loved (by God), that you're fabulous." - Willow Creek Leadership Summit (8/95)

"Leadership is character and competence - if you have to be lacking in one, let it be competence, because you can't be a leader without character." - General Norman Schwarzkopf

"And all the time such is the tragic comedy of our situation - we continue to clamor for those very qualities we are rendering impossible. In a sort of ghastly simplicity we remove the organ and demand the function. We make men without chests and expect virtue or enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and bid the gelding be fruitful." - C. S. Lewis in The Abolition of Man

"When I bear the major load of responsibility, I am going to be in the middle of it." - John Maxwell

"Leadership is accepting people where they are, then taking them somewhere." - C. W. Perry

"Consensus is a poor substitute for leadership." - Charlotte Beers, CEO of Ogilvy & Mather worldwide ad agency

"The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality." - Max Depree in Leadership Is an Art

"The nation had the lion's heart. I had the luck to give the roar." - Winston Churchill

"Two army rules: 'When placed in command - take charge. Do what's right, not what you think the high headquarters wants or what you think will make you look good. There is no such thing as a born leader…most great leaders are ordinary people thrust into extraordinary circumstances." - Norman Schwarzkopf

"According to George Barna, only 6% of pastors say they have the gift of leadership. If other terms like 'shepherding, pasturing, and administration' are included the figure rises to 30%. Yet of these pastors only 2 out of 100 could articulate their church's vision. Barna does not assert that the other 98% can't articulate such a vision, but that up to this point they haven't." - Leadership, Summer 1995

"The church's successes of yesterday are killing us today. In times of great success, leaders feel little need to be reflective. Rather, the impetus is to go, go, go. But to go, go, go when the congregation is headed in the wrong direction will only get it there faster." - Norman Shawchuck and Roger Heuser in Leading the Congregation (quoted in Circuit Rider, May 1993)

Leadership

The Revelation of Jesus Christ (Part 2)

series by Michael Catt continued Operational Definitions terms, symbols and methods of interpretation to be familiar with in the study of Revelation Revelation was written to seven churches. These churches were located on the great Circular Road of Asia. Each city mentioned in chapters two and three were 30-50 miles apart. The Revelation lists them in […]

NY Times

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Religion News

online religion news services. NavPress announces the official launch of the TH1NK line of student products. The first six books are available in stores. “TH1NK isn’t your average Christian teen line. We’re about publishing cuttingedge, culturally relevant tools for young people to meet God in a tangible way,” comments Dan Rich, publisher of NavPress Books. […]

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