Ten Treasures (Part 2) June 27, 2009
Posted by Jayson N. in Quotes.Tags: Change, Charles Spurgeon, Courage, Empowerment, Faith, Grace, Integrity, John C. Maxwell, John Eldredge, Martin Luther, Mentoring, Philip Yancey, Prayer, Steadfast Faith, Stu Weber, Teddy Roosevelt, Wesley Duewel
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Here is part 2 of “Ten Treasures.” I had it on my mind to post it a month after.
Whenever I come across these statements and quotes, my focus sharpens and my convictions strengthen. Sometimes I would glance through their context and chapter once more to refresh my memory.
CHANGE
“To master change, your paradigm must shift
from what you will lose to what you will gain.”
Lance Witt, Purpose Driven Life Small Group, page 4.
“Everyone thinks of changing the world,
but no one thinks of changing himself.”
- Leo Tolstoy
John C. Maxwell, Thinking For a Change, page 24.
EMPOWERMENT
“The act of giving your power to another,
so they can serve effectively.”
Million Leaders Mandate, Book Two, page 34.
FAITH
“Now faith is being sure of what we hope for
and certain of what we do not see.”
Hebrews 11: 1 (NIV)
GRACE
“Grace means there is nothing we can do to make
God love us more—no amount of spiritual calisthenics
and renunciations, no amount of knowledge gained
from seminaries and divinity schools, no amount of
crusading on behalf of righteous causes. And grace means
there is nothing we can do to make God love us less—no
amount of racism or pride or pornography or adultery or
even murder. Grace means that God already loves us as
much as an infinite God can possibly love.”
Philip D. Yancey, What’s so Amazing about Grace, page 70.
INTEGRITY
“Doing what you said you would do,
when you said you would do it,
and how you said you would do it.”
- Byrd Baggett
John C. Maxwell, The 360 Leader, page 31.
MENTORING
“A relational experience where one person empowers
another by sharing God-given resources.”
Million Leaders Mandate, Book Two, page 34.
PRAYER
“He who knows how to overcome with God in prayer
has heaven and earth at his disposal.”
– Charles Spurgeon
Wesley L. Duewel, Mighty Prevailing Prayer, page 19.
STEADFAST FAITH / COURAGE
“If I profess with the loudest voice and clearest exposition every
portion of the truth of God except precisely that…point which the
world and the devil are at that moment of attacking, I am not
confessing Christ. When the battle rages, there the loyalty of the
soldier is proved. And to be steady on all the battlefield,
is merely flight and disgrace if he flinches at that point.”
- By Martin Luther
Stu Weber, Four Pillars of a Man’s Heart, Page 40.
“It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out
how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds
could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man
in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat
and blood, who strives valiantly…who knows the great
enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself
in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the
triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst,
if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his
place shall never be with those cold and timid souls
who have never known neither victory nor defeat.”
– Teddy Roosevelt
John Eldredge, Wild at Heart, page xiii.
Ten Treasures (Part 1) May 18, 2009
Posted by Jayson N. in Quotes.Tags: Attitude, Destiny, Life, Perception, Purpose, Spiritual Leadership, Success, Testing, Vision
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Over the years, I have learned to treasure striking quotes or sayings of influential leaders and brilliant writers coming from different fields. Using a mechanical pencil, I would underline these quotes so that it would be easy for me to locate them in a book. There are times I would jot them on a notebook.
To archive scores of sayings, I encode them in my PDA and computer.
Here are some of my treasured quotes:
ATTITUDE / LIFE
“...Life is 10 percent what happens to me and 90 percent how I react to it.”
– Chuck Swindoll
John C. Maxwell, Developing the Leader Within You, page 98.
DESTINY
“Whoever sows a thought, reaps an action;
whoever sows an action, reaps a habit;
whoever sows a habit, reaps a lifestyle;
whoever sows a lifestyle, reaps a destiny.”
Neil T. Anderson, Robert L. Saucy, God’s Power at Work in You, page 14.
PERCEPTION
“The difference between average people and achieving people
is their perception of and response to failure.”
John C. Maxwell, Failing Forward, page 2.
PURPOSE
“Without God, life has no purpose,
and without purpose, life has no meaning.
Without meaning, life has no significance or hope.”
Rick Warren, The Purpose Driven Life, page 30.
“Living on purpose is the only way to live.
Everything else is just existing.”
Rick Warren, The Purpose Driven Life, page 312.
SPIRITUAL LEADERSHIP
“Spiritual Leadership is moving people on to God’s agenda.”
Henry Blackaby, Richard Blackaby, Spiritual Leadership, page 20.
SUCCESS
“Success is knowing your purpose in life,
growing to reach your maximum potential, and
sowing seeds that benefit others.”
John C. Maxwell, Your Road Map for Success, page 11.
“Success…the progressive realization of a predetermined goal.”
John C. Maxwell, Developing the Leader Within You, page 19.
TESTING
“An opportunity which challenges the leader to demonstrate
his/her potential and maturity.“
Million Leaders Mandate, Book Two, page 4.
VISION
“A clear mental picture of a better tomorrow, given by God,
which moves a person to believe that it not only could be done,
but it should be done.”
Million Leaders Mandate, Book One, page 20.
. September 12, 2008
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