WISDOM COMES THROUGH WORSHIP

'The best way to guard your heart for wisdom is worship, in which the mouth, the mind, the imagination, and even the body are all orientated to God.'

Timothy Keller with Kathy Keller, The Way of Wisdom, p.85.

SELF-DECEPTION

'Self-deception is not the worst thing you can do, but its the means by which we do the worst things. The sin that is most distorting your life right now is the one you can't see.'

Timothy Keller with Kathy Keller, The Way of Wisdom, p.84.

TRUE LEADERSHIP

'...leadership is, at its purest, concerned with truth. In its highest calling, it's not concerned with pragmatic solutions, with getting the job done: it is a matter of seeing something more truly than others around you.'

Simon P Walker, Leading out of Who You Are, p.124.

LEADER, KNOW THYSELF

'...all of us create worlds in our own image, but the difference for leaders is that they have the positional authority to do so. If I am right in this, then it is vital for leaders to appreciate that they have the mandate and the power to impose their personality on the community around them. Within the environment over which we have authority and for which we have responsibility (be it a family, a classroom, an office, a voluntary society or the boardroom of a global multinational), we impose our own personal strategy on those around us and seek to create a world that meets our own needs. The community becomes an extension of us, and our followers become performers on our stage, using our script to tell our story. There is an identification of the person of the leader with the performance of the organization they lead.

For us, therefore, there is a moral responsibility and ethical imperative to know ourselves, not for our own benefit but for the benefit of our followers. And not only to know ourselves but to be free from ourselves. It is freedom that is the critical factor: freedom to make decisions and choose courses of action that in the end may lead to personal loss rather than personal gain.'

Simon P Walker, Leading out of Who You Are: Discovering the Secret of Undefended Leadership, p.47. 

PREACHING INTO THE RIGHT LIVES

'If you're a church leader...prepare your people for the week they will be having, not the the week you will be having.'

Stephen McAlpine, Being the Bad Guys, p.115.

AN AUTHENTIC APOLOGY

'How can you tell the difference between an apology and a simple concession? An authentic apology, especially when it is offered in response to significant and long-term harm, will be so clearly distinct from every prior experience that it will be unquestionably received. It will appear like a flash of light in a darkened room, like an exploding clap of thunder in the dead of night, like the unveiling of a hidden treasure, like a resurrection from the dead - not because of any of the apologizer's qualities but because of the innate power of truth.'

Wade Mullen, Something's Not Right, p.131.