Dan B. Allender Quotes
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The sole reason to serve as a Christian is Jesus, yet He is easily lost in the various activities that consume our days.
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Idealism may get us into the fray, but it is the loss of all we cherish that begins to form in us a heart capable of leading others reluctantly and humbly.
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Buzyness, however, is moral laziness because it involves refusing to live with courage and intentionality.
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If we want to create a different future, we must have the courage to look at the past.
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Grace. Loss. Fortune. Hardship. Victory. Sometimes the worst seat is best seat in the house and it comes as a result of leading.
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Most people want to grow, but the price of growth is pain.
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Every addiction is an attempt to slay hope.
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A reluctant leader is highly suspicious of people who work to accumulate and hoard power.
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Reconciliation is not to be withheld when repentance—that is, deep, heart‐changing acknowledgement of sin and a radical redirection of life—takes place in the one being rebuked. Nor is reconciliation to be extended to someone who has not repented.
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The more we walk the path first while becoming last and least in our organizations, the more we become like the Alpha and Omega whom we long to serve.
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A leader - whether in the home, church, business, community, or government - has authority due to her role, but her positional power will not bring about good for individuals or organizations unless it is backed up by the capital of character.
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Courage never takes away fear; courage simply redistributes fear to get the job done.
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So take seriously the story that God has given you to live. It’s time to read your own life, because your story is the one that could set us all ablaze.
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The more you openly name your struggles, the less people can use your silence as a back door to blackmail you, to sabotage your leadership, or to subvert relationships within the organization.
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Every marriage moves either toward enhancing one another’s glory or toward degrading each other.
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In order to reclaim the joy and passion of leadership, we must walk the valley of the shadow of death and name the cost of leadership.
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What originally led us to serve others by leading them seldom remains our North Star.
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Elizabeth Turnage is a woman of grit and grace who lives into the stories of those who join her in this odd journey of seeking God. She honors the complexity of life without ever losing sight of the simple glory of the cross. Her grasp of the mundane and miraculous and their interplay gives a depth and honesty to her story that tugs at the heart and gives us hope our story can matter. Her book will be a clarion call to bring our broken, holy, troubled, and glorious life to the author of all stories: Jesus.
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To experience brokenness and humiliation all you have to do is lead.
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It is God's design to use reluctant servants to usher in glory.
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If you are a leader, it is not possible to be at peace with all and friends with everyone.
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The desire for beauty, the hunger for union, the passion to be part of something greater than self, all arise out of our bent to worship.
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Life is war, and marriage provides us with a close and intimate ally with whom we may wage this war. The battle requires bold love, forgiveness, confrontation, and repentance.
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The cost for the recipient of God’s grace is nothing, and no price could be higher for arrogant people to pay.
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Stories don't give answers, but they do offer perspective.
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If you lead, you will eventually serve with Judas or Peter.
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Christ never intended to cover up the dark side of life, but rather to illuminate a path through it.
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One of the best sources of perspective is enemies. If we can learn from them, then we can profit from anyone.
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Bold love is courageously setting aside our personal agenda to move humbly into the world of others with their well-being in view, willing to risk further pain in our souls, in order to be an aroma of life to some and an aroma of death to others.
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The work of restoration cannot begin until a problem is fully faced.
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