Leading on Empty 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

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

“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

“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

“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

“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