Quotes About Spiritual Leaders

#1. God's plan is for parents to be the primary spiritual leaders of their children

Brian Dollar

#2. Spiritual leaders must help their people see beyond God's acts to recognize the way God consistently works with his people, time and time again. To do this, spiritual leaders must develop their own understanding and recognition of God's activity in their midst.

Richard Blackaby

#3. it occurred to me that the modern spiritual leaders of my tradition were always somber, self-important men, thickly coated in others' idea of who they were supposed to be.

Roland Merullo

#4. This generation of little children is the 7th Generation. Not just Indian children but white, black, yellow and red. Our grandfathers said the 7th generation would provide new spiritual leaders, medicine people, doctors, teachers and our great chiefs. There is a spiritual rebirth going on.

Clyde Bellecourt

#5. All the great spiritual leaders in history were people of hope. Abraham, Moses, Ruth, Mary, Jesus, Rumi, Gandhi, and Dorothy Day all lived with a promise in their hearts that guided them toward the future without the need to know exactly what it would look like. Let's live with hope.

Henri Nouwen

#6. Reducing carbon emissions is important, but it is shortsighted if not coupled with reducing the toxic emissions from our heart; and that is something spiritual leaders are supposed to teach and something all thinking people, regardless of their beliefs, should practice.

Radhanath Swami

#7. Spiritual leaders are not made by man, nor any combination of men. Neither conferences, nor synods, nor councils can make them, but only God.

Samuel Logan Brengle

#8. Some spiritual leaders try to be more committed. What they need is to be more submitted.

Henry T. Blackaby

#9. Religious and spiritual leaders should be held accountable for environmental activism, not only because they have access to large communities and can influence votes, but because service is integral to religious and spiritual life.

Radhanath Swami

#10. Only the wounded healer is able to heal. As long as we think that spiritual leaders need to be perfect, we live in poverty. I have a perfect teacher inside; there is no perfect teacher outside.

Angelina Love

#11. All spiritual leaders who live in luxury cannot enter God's Paradise in Heaven. Repent or Perish.

Felix Wantang

#12. Jesus wanted the twelve leaders to remember the example He left just hours before crucifixion. He wanted them to understand that the servant spirit is critical to the development of spiritual leaders.

Teresa Hampton

#13. All revered spiritual leaders, political leaders, and diplomats, captains of industry, intellectuals, and winning generals exhibit genuine humility that empowers them to act with integrity and courage under the most distressing circumstances.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#14. In such societies it is common for ordinary people to seek out celibate spiritual leaders for marriage, love and sometimes sexual guidance. This strikes me as a particularly stupid kind of folly. Nobody ever asks a vegetarian for a recommendation for a steak house

Scott Andrews

#15. What is Spiritual Littering?
Ridiculous teachings given by ignorant, self proclaimed spiritual leaders.

Shon Mehta

#16. It is in your hands to make life miserable or happy. No religion, spiritual leaders or knowledge will ever make you fully satisfied.

Santosh Kalwar

#17. I think where political issues invade moral situations, spiritual leaders have to speak out.

Billy Graham

#18. When spiritual leaders have done their jobs, the people around them have encountered God and obeyed his will.

Richard Blackaby

#19. We choose our leaders, political or spiritual, out of our own confusion, and so they also are confused.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#20. One wonders how far spiritual and political leaders can genuinely lead us without some degree of mystical seeing and action.

Richard Rohr

#21. I always felt that the problems of the world would never ever be solved until people came to terms with the deeper issues [spiritual] - that there would be an aimless reshuffling of world leaders and governments and programs.

Woody Allen

#22. God's discipline has nothing to do with rejection but more to do with refinement.

Gary Rohrmayer

#23. We can serve humanity with passionate commitment to our divine purpose.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#24. This leads us to an important spiritual principle for growth: comeback leaders know that our Lord considers commitment to Him and His desires an indispensable ingredient to growing spiritually and numerically.

Ed Stetzer

#25. The best ever spiritual coach you can ever have is Jesus Christ; our model of true leadership! You can do all things through Christ your and my spiritual coach!

Israelmore Ayivor

#26. To the desert go prophets and hermits; through deserts go pilgrims and exiles. Here the leaders of the great religions have sought the therapeutic and spiritual values of retreat, not to escape but to find reality.

Jon Krakauer

#27. Church must lead all other spheres of influence.We find people from all the mountains there.The church leaders must be able to mentor them

Paul Gitwaza

#28. If a church is good at making disciples it will be good at making leaders because in the end, a good spiritual formation plan will lead to an accelerated spiritual multiplication.

Gary Rohrmayer

#29. A simple way to address hidden curriculum issues is to spend time talking with staff and key leaders about their spiritual lives.

John Ortberg

#30. It is vitally important for local church leaders to keep in touch with the spiritual state of their members, to discuss their level of biblical knowledge, and to teach them how to study God's Word and pray.

Billy Graham

#31. The glorious presence of God is with us. Let us rise in mighty strength to build the nation.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#32. Every great soul had a great mentor.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#33. Leaders have made prayer to look very spiritual; they have made people to think that prayer should LOOK spiritual to get answers.

Paul Silway

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

John Paul Warren

#35. God prepares leaders with a specific place and task in mind. Training methods are adapted to the mission, and natural and spiritual gifts are given with clear purpose.

J. Oswald Sanders

#36. If the world is to hear the church's voice today, leaders are needed who are authoritative, spiritual, and sacrificial. Sacrificial, because this trait follows the model of Jesus, who gave Himself for the whole world and who calls us to follow in His steps.

J. Oswald Sanders

#37. In every walk of life, you must have leaders. An education in the spiritual world, in the labor field, in the agricultural field, we must have leaders.

Narendra Modi

#38. The corruption of religious leaders, who were expected to be the source of spiritual force and regeneration, is the last step in the of decay of a community.

Fazlur Rahman

#39. It is the capacity to develop and improve their skills that distinguishes leaders from followers.

Warren G. Bennis

#40. To be effective as future organizations, we must know our fellow leaders better, deeper.

Holly Duckworth

#41. Often when religious leaders come together, they talk about a particular sexual ethic, or an abstruse doctrine, as though this, rather than compassion, was the test of spiritual life.

Karen Armstrong

#42. when a culture needs wise spiritual guidance the most, all it gets from religious leaders is anxious condemnation and critique, along with a big dose of nostalgia for the lost golden age of the good old days. We

Brian McLaren

#43. Our great privilege as worship leaders is to help people see through the eyes of faith how great God has actually revealed himself to be. He doesn't change. We do.

Bob Kauflin

#44. The problem in the modern spiritual landscape is not only a plethora of genuine, useful material but also a marketplace teeming with questionable ideas, practices, and leaders.

Thomas Moore

#45. Spiritual authority is the direct result of God doing a greater work in the deeper areas of a leader's life.

Gary Rohrmayer

#46. Youth are the leaders of tomorrow. Those who practice the Spiritual Exercises of Eck will know how to lead by the example of love instead of the methods of force and lies, which are the standards of leaders under the spell of the negative force.

Harold Klemp