Quotes About Religious Leadership

#1. The Divine Thing that made itself the foundation of the Church does not seem, to judge by his comments on the religious leadership of his day, to have hoped much from officers of a church.

Charles Williams

#2. I think it's fair to say that I don't pick up languages. If anything, I roll around in them gracelessly and pray that something sticks.

Elizabeth Little

#3. Pope Benedict XVI assumes leadership at a critical time in which the world's collective wisdom and leadership including that of the religious community is most important to face up to challenges of deepening poverty and under-development afflicting many people of the world.

Thabo Mbeki

#4. I have not learned a single lesson, been inspired or impacted by another person's life void of negative experiences.

John Paul Warren

#5. The vision of extraordinary achievement is,by definition, a few steps beyond consensus and conventional logic

Scott Belsky

#6. Coming to the END of MYSELF and all SELF effort ... seems to be the very point that God steps in and shows HIMSELF to be more than ENOUGH.

John Paul Warren

#7. The sword of the Spirit has been muffled up and decked out with flowers and ribbons, author writes, conveying the sentiments of a Congregationist minister on men's ceding of moral and religious instruction and correction as women's work.

Nancy Pearcey

#8. The real architect of a life is the hard and almost impossible circumstances one faces.

John Paul Warren

#9. In the founding era of our country, it was not organized religion but personal faith that brought focus and unified the early leadership-maybe an unspoken faith in God, and certain values that came with that faith. So in that sense, we cannot discount, in my judgment, religious faith in politics.

Billy Graham

#10. I once said coaching a first-year team was a religious experience. You do a lot of praying - but most of the time the answer is NO.

Bill Fitch

#11. Are you okay?" I ask.
"You're looking at me in a way nobody has for a while."
"And how's that?"
"Like I matter.

Lisa Swallow

#12. Life of any real value or substance is not formed during good times merely enjoyed.

John Paul Warren

#13. Among the qualities most needed among those who aspire to true leadership in the fostering of peace and goodwill among the nations and in overcoming racial and religious antagonism is the cooperative spirit and objective.

John Mott

#14. I have been called arrogant myself in my time, and hope to earn the title again, but to claim that I am privy to the secrets of the universe and its creator - that's beyond my conceit.

Christopher Hitchens

#15. Joy cannot unfold the deepest truths. Cometh white-robed Sorrow, stooping and wan, and flingeth wide the door she must not enter.

George MacDonald

#16. Leaders in OVER their heads is the mere result of getting ahead of their intended SEASON.

John Paul Warren

#17. The actions of the University in my case make it abundantly clear that the Administration's rhetoric about Harvard's desire to attract and retain the most distinguished women in the world is empty.

Margaret Geller

#18. When you act, it's better not to fake the emotion. It's better to find the emotion within yourself and your experiences, and see if you can bring that back to the surface, so that you can then literally hand it off to the character, and then let him run with it.

Jackie Earle Haley

#19. Living life ONCE is enough ... if you live life RIGHT.

John Paul Warren

#20. Life seems to be fashioned and formed best out of the obstacles that seem unbearable.

John Paul Warren

#21. And the whole world, the whole world that believes in freedom, whether you're talking about personal freedom, economic freedom, religious freedom, they look to the United States for leadership; and you're part of that leadership.

Don Nickles

#22. There has never been a meaningful life built on easy street.

John Paul Warren

#23. In the world of oratory, the cunning atheist declares himself a believer so as to preserve access to the rich fund of tales from religious texts and to powerful concepts like God, fate, angels, the soul, & the afterlife.

Agona Apell

#24. If people want to compete for leadership of a religious group, they can compete in piety. A chilling thought. Or funny.

Mary Douglas

#25. Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight and focused attention.

Deepak Chopra