The Divine Mentor Quotes

“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

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

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

“Having a Heart to Serve // SCRIPTURE Because you did not serve the Lord your God with joy and a glad heart, for the abundance of all things; therefore you shall serve your enemies whom the Lord shall send against you, in hunger, in thirst . . .(Deuteronomy 28:47–48) // OBSERVATION God doesn’t want us just to serve Him, does He? No, it’s the motives behind my serving that catch His attention.”
― Wayne Cordeiro, The Divine Mentor: Growing Your Faith as You Sit at the Feet of the Savior

“KEEPING WISDOM FRESH”
― Wayne Cordeiro, The Divine Mentor: Growing Your Faith as You Sit at the Feet of the Savior

“• • For twenty minutes, read the portion of God’s Word according to the reading schedule for that day. It will take an average reader about that long to cover the bases. • • For the next twenty minutes, take one Scripture that the Holy Spirit has highlighted for you and journal on it, using the SOAP method. This is not a time to play theologian. From the chapters you’ve read, choose only one Scripture. Even if several catch your attention, select one thing the Spirit is bringing to your attention. Write your thoughts out in manuscript form using standard grammar. No notations or Cliffs Notes. Take the time to explain it clearly. Writing this way will help you to be exact in your thinking and clear in your understanding.  • • During the final twenty minutes, have the group share, one person at a time, what each person has journaled. Everyone takes a turn. No preaching allowed, and no special offerings allowed. Just read the entry. Discuss what you’ve heard in an easygoing and encouraging way. When you listen to others share their journals, you’ll draw from their wisdom and insights.”
― Wayne Cordeiro, The Divine Mentor: Growing Your Faith as You Sit at the Feet of the Savior

“The question is never ‘‘Does God speak?’’ but rather ‘‘Am I listening?’’ To best hear what God has to say to you, you must still your heart. Set aside your pressing demands. Turn off all your electronic distractions. Rarely does God shout to make himself heard!”
― Wayne Cordeiro, The Divine Mentor: Growing Your Faith as You Sit at the Feet of the Savior

“A word aptly spoken is like apples of gold in settings of silver.’’3 Allow God to speak that apt word to you by focusing on one main thought from your daily reading—not five, ten, or a baker’s dozen. One thing.”
― Wayne Cordeiro, The Divine Mentor: Growing Your Faith as You Sit at the Feet of the Savior

“At the heart of journaling is an easy-to-remember acrostic: SOAP. S = Scripture O = Observation A = Application P = Prayer”
― Wayne Cordeiro, The Divine Mentor: Growing Your Faith as You Sit at the Feet of the Savior

“If you can figure out how to learn from the bad as well as from the good, you’ll learn twice as much in life.’’ That’s why God put into the Bible raw, unedited accounts of men and women behaving both wisely and foolishly.”
― Wayne Cordeiro, The Divine Mentor: Growing Your Faith as You Sit at the Feet of the Savior

“Psalm 32:8–9 struck at the core of my error:
I will instruct you and teach you in the way which you should go; I will counsel you with My eye upon you. Do not be as the horse or as the mule which have no understanding, whose trappings include bit and bridle to hold them in check, otherwise they will not come near to you.
I had to admit the ugly truth: I was that horse. I was that mule. It’s no fun making such a confession. It was time for me to take responsibility for my own future.”
― Wayne Cordeiro, The Divine Mentor: Growing Your Faith as You Sit at the Feet of the Savior

“The pain of discipline costs far less than the pain of regret. It isn’t even close. If the pain of discipline can gain for us the wisdom of others—men and women who had to suffer through a great deal of regret—then isn’t the pain of discipline worth it? In 1 Corinthians, Paul recalls the experience of some ancient Hebrews from Moses’ day: ‘‘[Don’t] grumble as some of them did, and were destroyed by the destroyer. Now these things happened to them as an example, and they were written for our instruction, upon whom the ends of the ages have come.’’6”
― Wayne Cordeiro, The Divine Mentor: Growing Your Faith as You Sit at the Feet of the Savior

“Even if I caused you sorrow by my letter, I do not regret it. Though I did regret it—I see that my letter hurt you, but only for a little while—yet now I am happy, not because you were made sorry, but because your sorrow led you to repentance. For you became sorrowful as God intended and so were not harmed in any way by us. Godly sorrow brings repentance that leads to salvation and leaves no regret, but worldly sorrow brings death.5”
― Wayne Cordeiro, The Divine Mentor: Growing Your Faith as You Sit at the Feet of the Savior

“When someone stands behind a podium and testifies about his broken marriage or his shattered life or what he did wrong and how God resolved it, learn from that experience. This is why the Bible says, ‘‘The testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple.”
― Wayne Cordeiro, The Divine Mentor: Growing Your Faith as You Sit at the Feet of the Savior

“If Consequences has a back-end price, Wisdom has a front-end price. It requires discipline, obedience, consistency, and above all else, time. Then it gladly pours on you its promised tremendous riches.”
― Wayne Cordeiro, The Divine Mentor: Growing Your Faith as You Sit at the Feet of the Savior

“Wisdom teaches you the lesson before you make the mistake. On the other hand, consequences demand that you make the mistake first. Only then will it teach you the lesson. Wisdom puts up the fence at the top of the cliff; Consequences visits you in the hospital when you’re in traction . . . after they’ve scraped you up from the cliff’s bottom.”
― Wayne Cordeiro, The Divine Mentor: Growing Your Faith as You Sit at the Feet of the Savior

“In His grace, God gives you and me a measure of faith to get us going—but it’s not all we’ll need to finish the race, not even close. That we must gather and collect along the way. He designed life like this to keep our hearts teachable and compliant with His heart.”
― Wayne Cordeiro, The Divine Mentor: Growing Your Faith as You Sit at the Feet of the Savior

“The Dream Releasers
How to Help Others Realize Their
Dreams While Achieving Your Own”
― Wayne Cordeiro, The Divine Mentor: Growing Your Faith as You Sit at the Feet of the Savior

“What sets God’s people apart from everyone else is not our accoutrements or our language. It won’t be our music, our programs, or our bumper stickers. It will be the presence of the Lord . . . His hand being upon us.”
― Wayne Cordeiro, The Divine Mentor: Growing Your Faith as You Sit at the Feet of the Savior

“PRAYER Father, may I be so close to You that I can hear Your musings and be moved to action!”
― Wayne Cordeiro, The Divine Mentor: Growing Your Faith as You Sit at the Feet of the Savior

“Worship begins with my daily times before His throne, listening to His heart. And, when I leave, I expect to live differently because of what I just heard. It is often a whisper you will hear from the King”
― Wayne Cordeiro, The Divine Mentor: Growing Your Faith as You Sit at the Feet of the Savior

“THROUGH-THE-BIBLE READING PLAN5 Your personal reading schedule to take you through
the entire Bible within a year.”
― Wayne Cordeiro, The Divine Mentor: Growing Your Faith as You Sit at the Feet of the Savior

“The last 5 percent . . . it’s something we have to discover and then be responsible for.
• • Only I can be a husband/wife to my spouse. • • Only I can be a father/mother to my children. • • Only I can grow myself spiritually. • • Only I can keep myself healthy. • • Only I can keep myself disciplined.”
― Wayne Cordeiro, The Divine Mentor: Growing Your Faith as You Sit at the Feet of the Savior

“Four days a week at a hundred a day . . . that’s four hundred people, weekly, moseying past our group, noticing open Bibles and eager disciples. In four weeks 1,600 people will amble by our quiet 20/20/20 testimony.”
― Wayne Cordeiro, The Divine Mentor: Growing Your Faith as You Sit at the Feet of the Savior

“But there’s also another reason I like to meet for devotions in public places. Think of how many people pass by us as they wait in line for their morning coffee. Most will definitely notice five or six people with their Bibles open, writing in journals. Our favorite meeting place is busy; approximately a hundred people will saunter by us in an hour.”
― Wayne Cordeiro, The Divine Mentor: Growing Your Faith as You Sit at the Feet of the Savior

“Why meet in a coffee shop? Isn’t that a little distracting?”
― Wayne Cordeiro, The Divine Mentor: Growing Your Faith as You Sit at the Feet of the Savior

“Creative affinity means you become increasingly more like that which you love the most.”
― Wayne Cordeiro, The Divine Mentor: Growing Your Faith as You Sit at the Feet of the Savior

“Why is knowing Him so important to God? Why does He want us to love Him with ever-increasing devotion?”
― Wayne Cordeiro, The Divine Mentor: Growing Your Faith as You Sit at the Feet of the Savior

“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, The Divine Mentor: Growing Your Faith as You Sit at the Feet of the Savior