Wayne Cordeiro > Quotes

“Solitude is a chosen separation for refining your soul. Isolation is what you crave when you neglect the first.”
― Wayne Cordeiro, Leading on Empty: Refilling Your Tank and Renewing Your Passion

“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.”
― Wayne Cordeiro, Leading on Empty: Refilling Your Tank and Renewing Your Passion

“[Your] dream will challenge, prod and haunt you until you surrender to its call.”
― Wayne Cordeiro

“The promise of a dreamer’s future will always remain greater than their present ability. God will always give them dreams that are further along than their current level of maturity.”
― Wayne Cordeiro

“We can teach what we know, but ultimately, we will reproduce what we are.”
― Wayne Cordeiro, Sifted: Pursuing Growth through Trials, Challenges, and Disappointments

“there are two pains in life: the pain of discipline, or the pain of regret. You choose.”
― Wayne Cordeiro, Sifted: Pursuing Growth through Trials, Challenges, and Disappointments

“Prayer is thinking deeply about something in the presence of God.”
― Wayne Cordeiro, Leading on Empty: Refilling Your Tank and Renewing Your Passion

“The more you continue to read Scripture, the more you begin to think as He thinks and act as He acts. And that’s how, over time, you gain the wisdom of the ages.”
― Wayne Cordeiro, The Divine Mentor: Growing Your Faith as You Sit at the Feet of the Savior

“[God] deposits a dream of what we can be for Him, a dream that acts as our internal honing device.”
― Wayne Cordeiro

“God must first accomplish something in you before he can accomplish something through you.”
― Wayne Cordeiro, Sifted: Pursuing Growth through Trials, Challenges, and Disappointments

“An entire nation shook under the power of one man’s [MLK’s] dream! Now if one dream can do that for our nation, imagine what a dream can do for the Church.”
― Wayne Cordeiro

“So long as breath remains in our lungs, untapped potential lies inside us, waiting to be released. The reason we are still alive is that we are carrying something inside us that this generation needs. That’s why we’re not yet in heaven.”
― Wayne Cordeiro

“I used to pray, “I’m gonna live for God!” Now I pray, “God, come live through me.” I used to pray, “I’m gonna work for God!” Now I pray, “God, come do your work through me.” I used to pray, “I’m gonna serve God!” Now I pray, “God, please come and serve through”
― Wayne Cordeiro, Sifted: Pursuing Growth through Trials, Challenges, and Disappointments

“Remember that suffering will change you, but not necessarily for the better. You must choose to grow better not bitter.”
― Wayne Cordeiro, Divine Mentor, The: Growing Your Faith as You Sit at the Feet of the Savior

“In the information age in which we live, technology has a way of selling us on convenience. If something can’t be done electronically, we are not interested in doing it. But the bottom line for effective ministry must never be our own convenience. It takes blisters, commitment, and a willingness to go wherever the Lord leads us to get it done. This may be a foreign concept to some leaders;”
― Wayne Cordeiro, Sifted: Pursuing Growth through Trials, Challenges, and Disappointments

“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”
― Wayne Cordeiro, Leading on Empty: Refilling Your Tank and Renewing Your Passion

“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.”
― Wayne Cordeiro, Leading on Empty: Refilling Your Tank and Renewing Your Passion

“But 5 percent of what I do, only I can do! This the most important 5 percent for me. I can’t delegate these initiatives to anyone else. I can’t hire someone else to take my place in any of these activities because they require that I be there! This 5 percent will determine the validity of the other 95 percent. This is what I had to discover and make as the epicenter of my life. My 5 percent may differ from yours, but the principle is transferrable to everyone—married, single, widowed, old, or young. It is true for those with children, empty nesters, or young couples just starting out in life.”
― Wayne Cordeiro, Leading on Empty: Refilling Your Tank and Renewing Your Passion

“But here are a few leadership tips learned from scars: Learn quickly what hills you will die on and which ones you must not. Learn when to build bridges and when to draw lines, and don’t get the two mixed up! Learn when to confront and when to let it die and never bring it up again. Learn that when you become a leader, you can never again get angry in public. You can never defend yourself when a staff person or leader has been hurt by your comments. The best thing to do is to begin with the wash of repentance,”
― Wayne Cordeiro, Sifted: Pursuing Growth through Trials, Challenges, and Disappointments

“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.”
― Wayne Cordeiro, Leading on Empty: Refilling Your Tank and Renewing Your Passion

“Do you want to know the biggest difference between Consequences and Wisdom? Wisdom teaches you the lesson before you make the mistake. On the other hand, consequences demand that you make the mistake first.”
― Wayne Cordeiro, Divine Mentor, The: Growing Your Faith as You Sit at the Feet of the Savior

“But one of the true marks of a veteran is not how he catches a wave, but whether he knows when and how to get off the wave.”
― Wayne Cordeiro, Leading on Empty: Refilling Your Tank and Renewing Your Passion

“I know God will not give me anything I can’t handle. I just wish He didn’t trust me so much.” MOTHER TERESA”
― Wayne Cordeiro, Leading on Empty: Refilling Your Tank and Renewing Your Passion

“Psalm 42:11 (NIV): “Why, my soul, are you downcast? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him.”
― Wayne Cordeiro, Sifted: Pursuing Growth through Trials, Challenges, and Disappointments

“Only you can keep yourself spiritually healthy by feeding yourself. No one can do it for you by proxy.”
― Wayne Cordeiro, Divine Mentor, The: Growing Your Faith as You Sit at the Feet of the Savior

“To be right with God has often meant to be in trouble with men.” A. W. TOZER”
― Wayne Cordeiro, Leading on Empty: Refilling Your Tank and Renewing Your Passion

“Quietude, which some men cannot abide because it reveals their inward poverty, is as a palace of cedar to the wise, for along its hallowed courts the King in His beauty deigns to walk.” CHARLES H. SPURGEON”
― Wayne Cordeiro, Leading on Empty: Refilling Your Tank and Renewing Your Passion

“Suffering will change us, but not necessarily for the better. We have to choose that. And it was the choosing that made all the difference for me.”
― Wayne Cordeiro, Leading on Empty: Refilling Your Tank and Renewing Your Passion

“Friendships are not made in the blur of life. They are made in the margins.”
― Wayne Cordeiro, Leading on Empty: Refilling Your Tank and Renewing Your Passion

“A number of people I talked to had predicted it. He was very detail-oriented”
― Wayne Cordeiro, Leading on Empty: Refilling Your Tank and Renewing Your Passion