George Barna Quotes

Leadership is the art of serving God by helping His people become more like His Son through the indefatigable pursuit of His vision and values.

George Barna

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• The yogi offers his labyrinthine human longings to a monotheistic bonfire dedicated to the unparalleled God. This is indeed the true yogic fire ceremony, in which all past and present desires are fuel consumed by love divine.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • God
  • True
  • Human

• It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • God
  • Happy
  • Happiness

• My God, I don't know anyone who likes to accumulate their wealth more than the Europeans.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • God
  • Know
  • Wealth

• In the long run, we need to build a leadership force of people. We have a whole strategy around not only providing folks with the foundational experience during their two years with us, but also then accelerating their leadership in ways that is strategic for the broader education reform movement.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • People
  • Long
  • Experience

• Don't look for approval in what everyone else is doing; look for approval from Almighty God.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • God
  • Doing
  • Look

• The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and leadership because of his unbounded faith in the plain people.

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • People
  • Faith
  • Light

• I work in a very tough area of Britain. There is not much hope sociologically where I live and work, they're all sorts of conditions of poverty and deprivation and so on, I really do believe that the message of the kingdom of God is for places like this.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • Work
  • God
  • Believe

• If you're calling yourself a maverick and you're not Dirk Nowitzki, then you are probably not one. In fact, this rule applies to anyone declaring themselves a 'God-fearing Christian' or a 'Man of the people.'

  

  Adam McKay
  • People
  • God
  • Man

• I believe in God and not religion, because I believe religion is the double cross. Because I've been double crossed by three religions, so I think I can safely say that religion - there is maybe something wrong with religion. Every temple that's put up may not be a holy one, so watch out.

  

  Ja Rule
  • Up
  • God
  • Believe

• Great God of the Ants, thou hast granted victory to thy servants. I appoint thee honorary Colonel.

  

  Karel Capek
  • Great
  • God
  • Victory

• I never strike out at any life form. The only things I attack are icons of conspicuous consumption. People put objects in front of their life, in front of anything that has real importance. They make this 'thing' their God.

  

  Wendy O. Williams
  • People
  • Life
  • God

• If you see yourself as God and then you come back from this state and somebody says, 'Hey, Sam, empty the garbage!' it catches you back into the model of 'I'm Sam who empties the garbage.' You can't maintain these new kinds of structures. It takes a while to realize that God can empty garbage.

  

  Ram Dass
  • God
  • Model

• The countryside meant grain and herds, and a river meant fish. And if the sky meant anything, it meant a cruel God who took no notice of their pains and chastised them if they sinned.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • God
  • Sky
  • River

• When Israel, of the Lord belov'd,Out of the land of bondage came,Her fathers' God before her mov'd,An awful guide in smoke and flame.

  

  Walter Scott
  • God

• I've read the books. God is not a moderate. There's no place in the books where God says, 'You know, when you get to the New World and you develop your three branches of government and you have a civil society, you can just jettison all the barbarism I recommended in the first books.'

  

  Sam Harris
  • World
  • God
  • Society

• I got three letters today telling me that I'm god. Why can't I pay the rent?

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • God
  • Why
  • Today

• If one has lived long enough, there is danger of succumbing to the word 'God' merely because it was always there.

  

  Elias Canetti
  • God
  • Long

• Saints do not die. It is their lot, To die while on this earth to all that God is not.

  

  Angelus Silesius
  • God
  • Earth
  • Die

• We are like children, who stand in need of masters to enlighten us and direct us; God has provided for this, by appointing his angels to be our teachers and guides.

  

  Thomas Aquinas
  • God
  • Children
  • Masters

• At Amazon, we were not working with the e-commerce division but with the Web services team. We started Flipkart completely from scrap. Moreover, the whole shopping behaviour and infrastructure challenges in the Indian market were different from that in the U.S. and European markets.

  

  Sachin Bansal
  • Different
  • Team
  • Challenges

• I don't listen to a lot of music; I write more music than I listen to, for sure.

  

  Jason Molina
  • Music

• I remember one day when Juan Gris told me about a bunch of grapes he had seen in a painting by Picasso. The next day these grapes appeared in a painting by Gris, this time in a bowl; and the day after, the bowl appeared in a painting by Picasso.

  

  Jacques Lipchitz
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Painting

• I am of old and young, of the foolish as much as the wise, Regardless of others, ever regardful of others, Maternal as well as paternal, a child as well as a man, Stuffed with the stuff that is course, and stuffed with the stuff that is fine.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Wise
  • Child
  • Young

• Leadership is the art of serving God by helping His people become more like His Son through the indefatigable pursuit of His vision and values.

  

  George Barna
  • God
  • Son
  • Leadership