Top 100 Leadership Christian Quotes
#1. Non-profits find the very best Who and put them on their Boards because they don't want to pay them.
Jeff Henderson
#2. Serving God should elevate our level of excellence in every part of our lives.
Brad Lomenick
#3. You cannot control sin. Sin will control you. Do not try to manage sin.
Johnny Hunt
#4. A woman never wrote, "Thou shalt not commit adultery." God wrote that. You sin first and foremost against God.
Johnny Hunt
#5. Predestined to a destiny that only Christ can fulfill, all other leadership assures failure.
Jonah Books
#6. A 100 years from now the consequences for standing for Jesus will be greater than the consequences of not standing for Jesus today.
Mike Huckabee
#7. As a pastor our main ministry is exhortation.
Johnny Hunt
#8. Authentic Christians are persons who stand apart from others. Their character seems deeper, their ideas fresher, their spirit softer, their courage greater, their leadership stronger, their concerns wider, their compassion more genuine and their convictions more concrete.
Bill Hybels
#9. The last thing I want to do is pastor a church Jesus ain't at.
Matthew Carter
#11. Will you ask God to bring you to the place where you're willing to be willing?
Johnny Hunt
#13. In leadership there are always problems to be solved and tensions to be managed. When you try to solve a tension, you create a problem.
Andy Stanley
#14. You don't have to be rich to be generous. You have to be generous to be generous.
Johnny Hunt
#15. We are dealing in a day and time when the courts are defining sin different than the church.
Johnny Hunt
#16. "How" is what kills vision and dreams. Don't ask "How" until we figure out the "What". The "How" can kill the "What".
Andy Stanley
#17. It's very different to live with a mask.
Johnny Hunt
#18. You cannot cast a vision that has not cast a spell over you.
Derwin L. Gray
#19. Asking for money is better over coffee than over a computer.
Jeff Henderson
#21. If God doesn't build the vision, He will tear it down.
Matthew Carter
#22. Leaders make things better and that requires change.
Andy Stanley
#23. Make sure your vision is biblical. You want to make sure you can defend the vision biblically.
Matthew Carter
#24. The beginning of knowledge is to know thyself a sinner.
Johnny Hunt
#25. If a leader goes with their gut, it should be after listening first to people they trust.
Andy Stanley
#26. The call to be an elder is neither a call to mediocrity nor taking a title of honor while sending others on ahead.
Jonah Books
#27. You can't touch the world by giving up a Starbucks ... We've dumbed it down.
Johnny Hunt
#29. The church should train the Ritz Carlton on how to serve people.
Jeff Henderson
#30. T-shirts create a sense of "We". Food says, "We don't mind spending money on you."
Andy Stanley
#31. The godly are not exempt from trouble but are preserved in it.
Johnny Hunt
#32. Forgiven sin is better than accumulated wrath.
Johnny Hunt
#33. Go among the people. Don't assume you know what church looks like.
Alan Hirsch
#35. You can be genuinely forgiven by God and other people but still suffer the consequences from a particular sin in your life.
Johnny Hunt
#36. If you are a local church or non-profit, you live and die with volunteers.
Andy Stanley
#37. If I don't let God deal with my bentness, I will go the way of my bentness. But Jesus can straighten me out.
Johnny Hunt
#38. There's a lot of us who do not accept the culture of the bubbles.
Mike Huckabee
#39. I have to look at our staff and ask the hard question - Would I hire them again?
Jeff Henderson
#41. 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 woe to those who become leaders.
Eugene H. Peterson
#42. If you're not remarkable, you're invisible.
Simon Sinek
#43. If you choose to be obedient to God, God meets you with divine enablement.
Johnny Hunt
#44. If God can save Paul, He can save anybody. If God could use me, God could use anybody.
Johnny Hunt
#45. You're a leader. It's your job to keep your passion hot. Do whatever you have to do, read whatever you have to read, go wherever you have to go to stay fired up. And don't apologize to anybody.
Bill Hybels
#46. Who influenced you? When did they influence you? How have they influenced you? What have you done with their influence?
Johnny Hunt
#47. My own heart has to be under constant check by Jesus.
Johnny Hunt
#49. Attempt something so great for God that it is doomed to fail unless God is in it, and you're in it as well.
Jeff Henderson
#50. If you as a pastor don't have a passion for evangelism then don't be surprised if your people done either.
Aubrey Malphurs
#51. Christ can come back at any time so the one thing you want to have in your life is a focused prayer time.
Francis Chan
#52. You must emulate the truth you exhort.
Johnny Hunt
#53. There's all kind of vision in this Book. Just open it up and your people will follow.
Matthew Carter
#55. Fundraising requires looking someone eye-to-eye and say, "Will you help me" and don't say another thing. Just listen to them.
Jeff Henderson
#57. I don't want to lose the awe we get to help another human being.
Francis Chan
#58. Jesus was always on the front-lines washing dirty feet. Humility soon is shelved in ministry and we start thinking to much of ourselves. It is hard to effectively minister in Christ name when we look down on someone, but if we are washing their feet we look up to them giving them value and worth.
Jonah Books
#59. I hire talented, creative, passionate learners who have a history of turning intention into reality.
Jeff Henderson
#60. Who was Vardan Mamikonian, and how did he come to play this most crucial role in Armenian history? It may justifiably be said that without his committed leadership, the term "Armenian" today might have referred to no more than an obscure, one-time, Christian people of long past.
Arra Avakian
#61. The end product of the successful preacher's input is transformation.
Christian Michael
#63. Talent matters. Systems matter. Strategies matter. We can't just bring nice people together and think we're going to solve the world's problems.
Jeff Henderson
#64. I've never seen so much suicide ... The Bible is full of hope.
Johnny Hunt
#65. Leaders need 5 core competences: soul, head, hand, heart, body. Where do you need to grow?
Aubrey Malphurs
#66. There is a difference between people who are educated and people who are smart.
Mike Huckabee
#67. We've lost the wow of God because we've lost the woe of God. His perfect holiness helps us truly appreciate His amazing grace.
Mark Batterson
#68. Preacher's kids need another consistent voice in their lives over the years.
Andy Stanley
#69. God received from me something He didn't have on His own. My sin. I received something from God I didn't have on my own. His righteousness.
Johnny Hunt
#71. All the good you've ever done does not make it permissible to sin now.
Johnny Hunt
#72. That's what wrong. We've got people whose wallets have not been baptized.
Johnny Hunt
#73. Influence is the key word in any definition of leadership.
Aubrey Malphurs
#75. Would you like me to teach you how to trust God? Start with your money.
Johnny Hunt
#76. Stop praying that God should make you a leader if you are not ready to do hard work.
Bidemi Mark-Mordi
#77. It's not just a song I sing with my hand raised but also with a billfold I've laid.
Johnny Hunt
#78. The question is not what was different about Bathsheba. The difference was what had become different about David.
Johnny Hunt
#79. You have no idea what hangs in the balance of your decision on what to do with the burden God put in your heart.
Andy Stanley
#82. When Nehemiah's heart was broken he paid attention to his broken heart.
Andy Stanley
#84. We are not responsible for our endowments or natural abilities, but we are responsible for the strategic use of time.
J. Oswald Sanders
#85. Don't try to transport something you don't possess ... I want this truth to be incarnational.
Johnny Hunt
#86. God is the leader of your team. As you follow Him with all your heart, you will be leading your team in Jesus' steps.
Jim George
#87. It is interesting to note that an overwhelming majority of citizens in the world's three largest democracies have different religions: India (81 percent Hindu), the United States (76 percent Christian), and Indonesia (87 percent Muslim). Two of them have elected women as leaders of their government.
Jimmy Carter
#88. Leaders are like point guards, we set people up to score.
Derwin L. Gray
#89. Who aspires to remain leader must keep in advance of his column. His fear must not play traitor to his occasions. The instant he falls into line with his followers, a bolder spirit may throw himself at the head of the movement initiated, and in that moment his leadership is gone.
Christian Nestell Bovee
#90. There's a special place in hell for what some people have done but there's also a special place in God's heart for their forgiveness.
Johnny Hunt
#91. When you get honest with God, you can exchange the fig leaves you used to cover your sin with the righteousness of Jesus Christ.
Johnny Hunt
#93. When you go before God, you can only confess one person's sins.
Johnny Hunt
#94. In a volunteer organization there has to be time for community.
Andy Stanley
#95. The way of the Christian leader is not the way of upward mobility in which our world has invested so much, but the way of downward mobility ending on the cross.
Henri J.M. Nouwen
#96. What blame did Jesus have when He took the full blame for your sin?
Johnny Hunt
#98. Substance and content over style and hype any day.
Derwin L. Gray
#99. God has been preparing me for what God had prepared for me.
Johnny Hunt
#100. I'm more concerned about who you're becoming than what you're doing.
John Ortberg
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