Pastors

To Quote

Don’t confuse fame with success. Madonna is one, and Helen Keller is the other.

– Erma Bombeck

Worship does not satisfy our hunger for God; it whets our appetite.

– Eugene H. Peterson

My major effort must be devoted to my children. If Caroline and John turn out badly, nothing I could do in the public eye would have any meaning.

– Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

shortly after she entered the White House in 1960.

A man is only as good as what he loves.

– Saul Bellow

winner of the Nobel Prize for literature.

Saving grace makes a man as willing to leave his lusts as a slave is willing to leave his galley, or a prisoner his dungeon, or a thief his bolts, or a beggar his rags.

– Thomas Brooks

These are just speed bumps on the highway of life.

– Andrew Wainrib

Los Angeles restaurant owner who lost a nightclub in the Rodney King verdict riots, who lost a Malibu home in the fires, and who lost a beachside cafe in the earthquake.

To sensible men, every day is a day of reckoning.

– John W. Gardner

The church is the glue that keeps us together when we disagree. It is the gasoline that keeps us going during the tough times. It is the guts that enables us to take risks when we need to.

– Mary Nelson

urban Christian leader

God never gives us discernment in order that we may criticize, but that we may intercede.

– Oswald Chambers

The great thing is to get the true picture, whatever it is.

– Winston Churchill

during World War II.

The church must be reminded that it is not the master or the servant of the state, but rather the conscience of the state.

– Martin Luther King, Jr.

Satan trembles when he sees

The weakest saint upon his knees.

– Hymnwriters William Cowper and John Newton

I define ego as Edging God Out.

– Kenneth Blanchard

co-author of “The One-Minute Manager”

Copyright (c) 1995 Christianity Today, Inc./LEADERSHIP Journal

Copyright © 1995 by the author or Christianity Today/Leadership Journal. Click here for reprint information on Leadership Journal.

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