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.
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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.
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My God, I don't know anyone who likes to accumulate their wealth more than the Europeans.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.'
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Great God of the Ants, thou hast granted victory to thy servants. I appoint thee honorary Colonel.
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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.
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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.
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I got three letters today telling me that I'm god. Why can't I pay the rent?
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If one has lived long enough, there is danger of succumbing to the word 'God' merely because it was always there.
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Man can be the most affectionate and altruistic of creatures, yet he's potentially more vicious than any other. He is the only one who can be persuaded to hate millions of his own kind whom he has never seen and to kill as many as he can lay his hands on in the name of his tribe or his God.
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No! The other thing, that God brought us together for a reason.
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Why is it when we talk to God we're said to be praying - but when God talks to us, we're said to be schizophrenic?
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Above the pyramid on the great seal of the United States it says, in Latin: 'God has favored our undertaking.' God will not favor everything that we do. It is rather our duty to divine His will. But I cannot help believing that He truly understands and that He really favors the undertaking that we begin here tonight.
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Don't be afraid of who sits in the White House. God can triumph over Trump.
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Sometimes when I'm going to sleep, I think, 'Oh God, my future husband is out there somewhere and I might know him, or I might not, and I wonder what he's doing and I wonder if he knows me.' I just always think that's so fascinating, that even when you were two years old, your future husband was out there somewhere.
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The mission statement of the RSC is to foster a constitutionally bound limited government, it's to have a strong national defense, it's to protect private property rights and it's to support American values. That's what the mission statement is. There's nothing in the mission statement about trying to hold leadership accountable.
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Charity, by which God and neighbor are loved, is the most perfect friendship.
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Strange are the ways of history, where no single thing abides, but all things flow into each other, fragment to fragment clinging.
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I personally think that people should get the book because it is like a blueprint. It shows you the work that needs to be done if we're ever going to get economic equality, health, reproductive health, violence. I mean, it's every category.
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Age, with his eyes in the back of his head, thinks it wisdom to see the bogs through which he has floundered.
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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.
