Leading on Empty: Refilling Your Tank and Renewing Your Passion
Wayne Cordeiro
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Solitude is a chosen separation for refining your soul. Isolation is what you crave when you neglect the first.”
“We don't forget that we are Christians. We forget that we are human, and that one oversight alone can debilitate the potential of our future.”
“Prayer is thinking deeply about something in the presence of God.”
“I came across a contemporary version of the twenty-third Psalm entitled “Psalm 23 Revisited.” In it, the author captures perfectly where many of us are today: The clock is my dictator, I shall not rest. It makes me lie down only when exhausted. It leads me into deep depression, it hounds my soul. It leads me in circles of frenzy for activities’ sake. Even though I run frantically from task to task, I will never get it all done, for my “ideal” is with me. Deadlines and my need for approval, they drive me. They demand performance from me, beyond the limits of my schedule. They anoint my head with migraines, my in-basket overflows. Surely fatigue and time pressure shall follow me all the days of my life. And I will dwell in the bonds of frustration forever.1”
“We won’t be held accountable for how much we have done, but for how much we have done of what He has asked us to do.”
“I drove hard on all cylinders, not realizing that being an entrepreneur means that everything you initiate, by default you must add to your maintenance list.”
“Friendships are not made in the blur of life. They are made in the margins.”
“Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength." CHARLES H. SPURGEON”
“We don’t forget that we are Christians. We forget that we are human, and that one oversight alone can debilitate the potential of our future.”
“Until I began to see my depression as a constant reminder that I needed to stay close to God, it was simply an annoying pain that plagued me daily. My first step toward rehabilitation was to see my depression as a positive challenge that drew me closer to Christ on a daily basis.”
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