Church Quote by J. Oswald Sanders Download Open image “To be a leader in the Church has always required strength and faith beyond the merely human.” — J. Oswald Sanders ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Church Church Required Faith Humans Leader Leader Church Leadership Religion Strength and faith Strength Faith
“Not every Christian is called to major leadership in the church, but every Christian is a leader, for we all influence others. All of… — J Oswald Sanders Copy Share Image
Most churches make the mistake of selecting as leaders the confident, the competent, and the successful. But what you most need in a leader… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“When people love their church, its leaders can sometimes get complacent and lose touch with how essential their own transformation is to the effectiveness… — Greg L. Hawkins Copy Share Image
“The Christian leader is called not primarily to be effective, but to be faithful and to practice leadership in the way of Jesus no… — Tim Suttle Copy Share Image
“All great leaders are known to have faith. They first develop faith in themselves, which means they connect their body, mind and intellect with… — Awdhesh Singh Copy Share Image
Leadership in church is one of the biggest challenges that the Church is facing because without strong leadership, the church rarely lives out its… — Bill Hybels Copy Share Image
In every growing church you will find leadership that is not afraid to believe God. — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
A true leader must have enough backbone to stand alone - even when the crowd wants to take the easy road home. A true… — Leslie Ludy Copy Share Image
True leadership means to receive power from God and use it under God's rule to serve people in God's way. — Leighton Ford Copy Share Image
“Christ manifests his divine leadership in your sincere followership. Christ's followers become true leaders because Christ is the model of true leadership.” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
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… — J. Oswald Sanders Copy Share Image
The final estimate of men shows that history cares not an iota for the rank or title a man has borne, or the office… — J. Oswald Sanders Copy Share Image
It is conceivable that God might have ordained to preach the Gospel directly to man through dreams, visions and revelations. But as a matter… — J. Oswald Sanders Copy Share Image
Jesus drank a cup of wrath without mercy, that we might drink a cup of mercy without wrath. — J. Oswald Sanders Copy Share Image
True greatness,true leadership,is found in giving yourself in service to others, not in coaxing or inducing others to serve you. True service is never… — J. Oswald Sanders Copy Share Image
The secular mind and heart, however gifted and personally charming, has no place in the leadership of the church. — J. Oswald Sanders Copy Share Image
Vision involves optimism and hope. The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty. The pessimist tends to hold… — J. Oswald Sanders Copy Share Image
God is always at work, though we cannot see it, preparing people he has chosen for leadership. When the crisis comes, God fits His… — J. Oswald Sanders Copy Share Image
If you would rather pick a fight than solve a problem, do not consider leading the church — J. Oswald Sanders Copy Share Image
Ambition that centers on the glory of God and welfare of the church is a mighty force for good. — J. Oswald Sanders Copy Share Image
“When we measure ourselves by the life of Jesus, who humbled Himself on the cross, we are overwhelmed with the shabbiness, even the vileness,… — J. Oswald Sanders Copy Share Image
Sacrifice is the ecstasy of giving the best we have to the One we love most. — J. Oswald Sanders Copy Share Image
While the 1963 Birmingham church bombing is the most historic, there also was a series of church burnings in the 1990s. Recognition of the… — Anthea Butler Copy Share Image
If I had my brothers I think with just a little bit of the correct marketing, I'd like to be almost exclusively in small… — Terry Bozzio Copy Share Image
Turn over the pages of history and read the damning record of the church's opposition to every advance in every field of science. . . . — Upton Sinclair Copy Share Image
Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Jeff Chu's pilgrimage across America to discover his own place as a gay man in the Christian church as well as attitudes about being… — Donna Freitas Copy Share Image
God is not calling us to go to church; he is calling us to be his church, the hope of the world. — Craig Groeschel Copy Share Image
The emerging church movement has come to believe that the ultimate context of the spiritual aspirations of a follower of Jesus Christ is not… — Samir Selmanovic Copy Share Image
T]he church is not a place. It's not a building. It's not a preaching point. It's not a spiritual service provider. It's a people… — Mark Dever Copy Share Image
There could be no more powerful argument against mixing religion and government than the success of independent African American churches in placing racial segregation… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
Worship is not about personality, temperament, personal limitations, church background, or comfort. It is about God. — John Wimber Copy Share Image
Pound St. Paul's Church into atoms, and consider any single atom; it is to be sure, good for nothing; but put all these atoms… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image