"The Christian leader of the future is called to be completely irrelevant and to stand in this world with nothing to offer but his or her own vulnerable self. That is the way Jesus came to reveal God's..."
- Henri J.M. Nouwen
"You must read to lead. Reading feeds. It opens our souls to a long line of counselors."
- Dave Harvey
"My job is not to solve people's problems or make them happy, but to help them see the grace operating in their lives."
- Eugene H. Peterson
"An angry leader is a scared leader or a hurt leader or a frustrated leader but most of all they are a vulnerable leader."
- Gary Rohrmayer
"Great leaders are teachable leaders."
"Solitude is a chosen separation for refining your soul. Isolation is what you crave when you neglect the first."
- Wayne Cordeiro
"Somehow we American pastors, without really noticing what was happening, got our vocations redefined in the terms of American careerism. We quit thinking of the parish as a location for pastoral spiri..."
"There is a long and well-documented tradition of wisdom in the Christian faith that any venture into leadership, whether by laity or clergy, is hazardous. it is necessary that there be leaders, but wo..."
"Deception is nowhere more common than in religion. And the persons most easily and damningly deceived are the leaders. Those who deceive others are first themselves deceived, for not many, I think, be..."
"Pastors enter congregations vocationally in order to embrace the totality of human life in Jesus' name. We are convinced there is no detail, however unpromising, in people's lives in which Christ may ..."