Top 46 Dan B. Allender Quotes

#1. The absence of tumult, more than its presence, is an enemy of the soul. God meets you in your weakness, not in your strength. He comforts those who mourn, not those who live above desperation. He reveals Himself more often in darkness than in the happy moments of life.

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

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#3. To experience brokenness and humiliation all you have to do is lead.

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#4. If we want to create a different future, we must have the courage to look at the past.

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#5. Most people want to grow, but the price of growth is pain.

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#6. Christ never intended to cover up the dark side of life, but rather to illuminate a path through it.

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#7. God's passion is to rig the world so that we are compelled to deal with whatever blocks us from being like His glorious Son.

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#8. Sane, reasonable, play-it-safe people are not sufficiently engaged in life to generate great stories. Instead, they sit back and wait for a leader-storyteller to come along and get them caught up in a life worth living.

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#9. A leader - whether in the home, church, business, community, or government - has authority due to her role, but her positional power will not bring about good for individuals or organizations unless it is backed up by the capital of character.

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#10. Life is war, and marriage provides us with a close and intimate ally with whom we may wage this war. The battle requires bold love, forgiveness, confrontation, and repentance.

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#11. Hope waits but does not sit. It strains with eager anticipation to see what may be coming on the horizon. Hope does not pacify; it does not make us docile and mediocre. Instead, it draws us to greater risk and perseverance

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

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#13. 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.

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#14. The sole reason to serve as a Christian is Jesus, yet He is easily lost in the various activities that consume our days.

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#15. God is continually, literally, second-by-second covering our sin under His Son's blood and forgiving us our sins. God cannot love us unless He forgives us and cannot forgive us without a commitment to love us.

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#16. Love cannot last without a foundation of forgiveness.

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#17. So take seriously the story that God has given you to live. It's time to read your own life, because your story is the one that could set us all ablaze.

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#18. Buzyness, however, is moral laziness because it involves refusing to live with courage and intentionality.

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#19. Stories don't give answers, but they do offer perspective.

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#20. Beginning with the first day of life outside the womb, every child is asking two core questions: 'Am I loved?' and 'Can I get my own way?' These two questions mark us throughout life, and the answers we receive set the course for how we live.

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#21. 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.

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#22. But the part of ourselves we hate the most is our longing to be wanted and enjoyed.

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

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

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#25. Perhaps a better explanation for why it's so difficult to feel our feelings is that ALL emotion, positive or negative, opens the door to the nature of reality. All of us prefer to avoid pain -- but even more, we want to escape reality.

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#26. Healing comes when our story is raw, bone-deep and full of hunger for what only Jesus can offer.

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

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#28. The work of restoration cannot begin until a problem is fully faced.

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#29. Courage never takes away fear; courage simply redistributes fear to get the job done.

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#30. Repentance is an internal shift

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#31. Every addiction is an attempt to slay hope.

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#32. We live in a culture where the acknowledgment of wrong or the ownership of risk and failure is paramount to forfeiting the game.

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#33. The damage done through abuse is awful and heinous, but minor compared to the dynamics that distort the victim's relationship with God and rob her of the joy of loving and being loved by others.

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#34. Bold love is courageously setting aside our personal agenda to move humbly into the world of others with their well-being in view, willing to risk further pain in our souls, in order to be an aroma of life to some and an aroma of death to others.

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#35. The desire for beauty, the hunger for union, the passion to be part of something greater than self, all arise out of our bent to worship.

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

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#37. Strength is found in weakness. Control is found in dependency. Power is found in surrender.

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

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

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#40. A simple person must be encouraged to see the Christian life as a war, not only with the world, the devil, and the flesh, but with God Himself.

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

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#42. 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.

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

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#44. 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.

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#45. Every marriage moves either toward enhancing one another's glory or toward degrading each other.

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#46. 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.

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