Dan B. Allender Quotes - Page 2

If you are a leader, it is not possible to be at peace with all and friends with everyone.

If you lead, you will eventually serve with Judas or Peter.

The more you openly name your struggles, the less people can use your silence as a back door to blackmail you, to sabotage your leadership, or to subvert relationships within the organization.

The cost for the recipient of God’s grace is nothing, and no price could be higher for arrogant people to pay.

One of the best sources of perspective is enemies. If we can learn from them, then we can profit from anyone.

In order to reclaim the joy and passion of leadership, we must walk the valley of the shadow of death and name the cost of leadership.

You may obey a leader who has power and authority, but you will not strive to serve her or the cause of the organization unless you respect and care for her in addition to the ones with whom you serve.

The more we walk the path first while becoming last and least in our organizations, the more we become like the Alpha and Omega whom we long to serve.

Grace. Loss. Fortune. Hardship. Victory. Sometimes the worst seat is best seat in the house and it comes as a result of leading.

For most leaders, humility comes only by wounds suffered from foolish falls.

What originally led us to serve others by leading them seldom remains our North Star.

Idealism may get us into the fray, but it is the loss of all we cherish that begins to form in us a heart capable of leading others reluctantly and humbly.

It is God's design to use reluctant servants to usher in glory.

Elizabeth Turnage is a woman of grit and grace who lives into the stories of those who join her in this odd journey of seeking God. She honors the complexity of life without ever losing sight of the simple glory of the cross. Her grasp of the mundane and miraculous and their interplay gives a depth and honesty to her story that tugs at the heart and gives us hope our story can matter. Her book will be a clarion call to bring our broken, holy, troubled, and glorious life to the author of all stories: Jesus.

To dream alone is fantasy if it doesn't move the heart to act.

A reluctant leader is highly suspicious of people who work to accumulate and hoard power.