84 Quotes by Dan B. Allender

One of the best sources of perspective is enemies. If we can learn from them, then we can profit from anyone.

We live in a day when our sense are so dull that we need extreme sports, bingeing, or dangerous pastimes to give us a sense we are alive. We crave reality – both pain and pleasure – so much that many young people cut themselves, saying, ‘I just wanted to feel something.

A reluctant leader is highly suspicious of people who work to accumulate and hoard power.

We are to free the slaves because we were once slaves. Sabbath is a remembrance of the stale bondage of Egypt and the fresh air of our new garden given to us because of the faithfulness of God’s covenantal love, not due to our capacity to make God happy. Yet God is more than happy with us – he adores us and lavishes us with freedom and joy.

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.

We will never know Sabbath delight unless God delivers us from drowning in the noise and grime of our soiled days.

The absence of tumult, more than its presence, is an enemy of the soul. God meets you in your weakness, not in your strength. He comforts those who mourn, not those who live above desperation. He reveals Himself more often in darkness than in the happy moments of life.

Grace. Loss. Fortune. Hardship. Victory. Sometimes the worst seat is best seat in the house and it comes as a result of leading.

To dream alone is fantasy if it doesn’t move the heart to act.