Quotes About Spiritual Leadership

#1. Spiritual leadership ought to be given to those who have proven themselves under stress.

Max Anders

#2. Having a good definition of spiritual leadership is critical to development
of leadership cultural throughout your church. You need to know what you are
shooting for if you are going to hit the target.

Gary Rohrmayer

#3. Until self-effacing men return again to spiritual leadership, we may expect a progressive deterioration in the quality of popular Christianity year after year till we reach the point where the grieved Holy Spirit withdraws - like the Shekinah from the temple.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#4. Only people of proven character should be placed in positions of spiritual leadership.

Max Anders

#5. [The church's] job is to provide permanent solace and spiritual leadership to the people as a whole, whatever their government at the moment, so long as it stays within the bounds of moral decency.

James A. Michener

#6. So the goal of spiritual leadership is to muster people to join God in living for God's glory.

John Piper

#7. From 4 to 6 percent of the presidential office is not in administration but in morals, politics, and spiritual leadership . He has to guide a people in the greatest adventure ever undertaken on the planet.

William Allen White

#8. Spiritual leadership is moving people on to God's agenda.

Henry Blackaby

#9. Spiritual leadership should remain spiritual leadership and the temporal power should not become too important in any church.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#10. Spiritual leadership is the power to change the atmosphere by one's presence, the unconscious influence that makes Christ and spiritual things real to others.

J. Oswald Sanders

#11. Headship is not rulership; it is leadership. As head, the man is to provide spiritual leadership and direction to the family. He is supposed to chart the course. His spiritual temperature should set the climate for his entire house.

Myles Munroe

#12. The Hoffman Process brings forth spiritual leadership in a person. It made my spirituality come alive. Through the Hoffman Process I actually brought my faith into my daily actions.

Ken Blanchard

#13. Spiritual leadership is knowing where God wants people to be and taking the initiative to get them there by God's means in reliance on God's power.

John Piper

#14. Leadership is based on a spiritual quality; the power to inspire, the power to inspire others to follow

Vince Lombardi

#15. If we throw judgments out, that is exactly what will return to us. What we give is exactly what we will receive. It doesn't matter if we throw out good or bad. It all comes back. It is a spiritual law.

Sandra M. Michelle

#16. No pastor, no spiritual leader, is ever able to take his people any further than he himself has gone with God.

W. Phillip Keller

#17. Remember all missional advancement always engages missional resistance.

Gary Rohrmayer

#18. 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

#19. The minister is the parish clock. Many people take their time from him.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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

John Paul Warren

#21. Mankind's history has proved from one era to another that the true criterion of leadership is spiritual. Men are attracted by spirit. By power, men are forced. Love is engendered by spirit. By power, anxieties are created.

Malcolm X

#22. Unchanged hearts are unled spirits.

Trisha Sebastian

#23. To overcome something great you must first learn to overcome your own fears.

Nikki Rowe

#24. Battling busyness is a community response.

Kevin DeYoung

#25. If those who hold influence over others fail to lead toward the spiritual uplands, then surely the path to the lowlands will be well worn.

J. Oswald Sanders

#26. 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

#27. Faithful leadership doesn't always result in being commended, applauded, or appreciated.

Bob Kauflin

#28. How are we tending to the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual sides to the 'vehicle' of our life...our body.

This garden needs constant care and constant growth to stay alive and healthy in all possible senses

Abha Maryada Banerjee

#29. Constant remembrance of the Almighty will bring you everlasting happiness and peace

Radhe Maa

#30. Rethink Your Success Mindset: At the end of your life, the only things that really matter ... are matters of your heart.

Tony Dovale

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

John Paul Warren

#32. Pride takes many forms, but spiritual pride is the most grievous. To become proud of spiritual gifts or leadership position is to forget that all we have is from God, all the position we occupy is God's appointment.

J. Oswald Sanders

#33. In this way, the Gospel of Mary holds up Mary as a model for Christian leadership based on spiritual maturity and prophetic insight. It is because she has achieved spiritual maturity that she is able to teach and care for the others.

R.S. Sugirtharajah

#34. Fatigue is the price of leadership. Mediocrity is the price of never getting tired.

J. Oswald Sanders

#35. One should measure their life by the faith they embrace and the relationships they cherish

John Paul Warren

#36. Churches need to figure out how they will address the spiritual lives of their staffs and leadership teams.

John Ortberg

#37. 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

#38. When poor people get involved in a long conflict, such as a strike or a civil rights drive, and the pressure increases each day, there is a deep need for spiritual advice. Without it, we see families crumble, leadership weaken, and hard workers grow tired.

Cesar Chavez

#39. 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

#40. When the house is on fire, don't tell me what your spiritual gift is. Just grab a hose and put out the fire.

Andy Stanley

#41. irony is that, while secular leadership has become blatantly spiritual, Christian leadership has become blatantly (and blandly) secular.

Erwin Raphael McManus

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

John Paul Warren

#43. Even Satan can quote scripture out of context why are we surprised when men do it.

Gary Rohrmayer

#44. Every place is now God's temple, and His people can as truly serve Him in their daily employments as in His house. They are to be always "ministering," offering the spiritual sacrifice of prayer and praise, and presenting themselves a "living sacrifice.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#45. The knowledge of the Spirit is the true secret of creativity, leadership and happiness. It is spiritual intelligence that makes an ordinary person a genius. When a genius loses his spiritual intelligence, he becomes quite ordinary.

Awdhesh Singh

#46. My own spirit, soul, and body are my nearest machinery for sacred service.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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

Gary Rohrmayer

#48. Ultimately, the fruit of faithful leadership is knowing we've pleased the audience of One.

Bob Kauflin

#49. 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

#50. Plan from your internal or spiritual view of things. The external view always has a way of distorting, discouraging and limiting your dream.

Archibald Marwizi

#51. The pulpit is never to be the ladder by which ambition is to climb

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#52. The focus of pastoral leadership is so consistently on the people, in fact, that the spiritual condition of the flock is the only real measure of a leader's success.

Christopher A. Beeley

#53. We must help men and women see the epic in the ordinary details of life.

Matt Chandler

#54. Every great movement needs an agitator. Every leader of spiritual ideals need a John the Baptist.

William Allen White

#55. The spiritual leader should outpace the rest of the church, above all, in prayer.

J. Oswald Sanders

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

John Paul Warren

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

Warren G. Bennis

#58. The real spiritual leader is focused on the service he and she can render to God and other people, not on the residuals and perks of high office or holy title. We must aim to put more into life than we take out.

J. Oswald Sanders

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

John Paul Warren

#60. Every cult of personality that emphasizes the distinguished qualities, virtues, and talents of another person, even though these be of an altogether spiritual nature, is worldly and has no place in the Christian community; indeed, it poisons the Christianity community.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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

John Paul Warren

#62. 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

#63. May we be thunder in our doctrine and lighten in out conversations.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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

John Paul Warren

#65. You can unlock spiritual things only from within.

Richard Rohr

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

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#67. Better abolish pulpits then to appoint men who have no experiential knowledge of what they teach.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#68. Multiple Spiritual Choices towards Light will accumulate your positive karma, upgrade your vision, develop your leadership skills

Jacklyn A. Lo

#69. The spiritual leader will choose the hidden path of sacrificial service and approval of the Lord over the flamboyant self-advertising of the world.

J. Oswald Sanders

#70. It is estimated over 80% of all illnesses today are spiritual in nature.

Johnny Hunt

#71. What are most people hungry for? I believe it is spiritual and moral leadership. Increases in technology, scientific inventions, and medical miracles have been marvelous and incredible. But we must use them properly to bring us joy, and that requires spiritual and moral leadership.

James E. Faust

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

Gary Rohrmayer

#73. Soothing assumptions about the good faith and shared interests of antagonists are natural to democracy, as is the desire to spend money on things other than defense. Getting a democracy to do what does not come naturally requires leadership.

George F. Will

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

Lailah Gifty Akita