The Conviction to Lead Quotes

“We want character but without unyielding conviction; we want strong morality, but without the emotional burden of guilt or shame; we want virtue but without particular moral justifications that invariably offend; we want good without having to name evil; we want decency without the moral authority to insist upon it; we want moral community without any limitations to personal freedom. In short, we want what we cannot have on the terms that we want it.”
― Albert Mohler, The Conviction to Lead: 25 Principles for Leadership That Matters

“Without apology, the Christian leader is a devoted student and a lifelong learner.”
― R. Albert Mohler Jr., The Conviction to Lead: 25 Principles for Leadership That Matters

“As theologian David F. Wells states so powerfully, We have turned to a God that we can use rather than a God we must obey; we have turned to a God who will fulfill our needs rather than to a God before whom we must surrender our rights to ourselves. He is a God for us and for our satisfaction, and we have come to assume that it must be so in the church as well. And so we transform the God of mercy into a God who is at our mercy. We imagine that he is benign, that he will acquiesce as we toy with his reality and co-opt him in the promotion of our ventures and careers.”
― Albert Mohler, The Conviction to Lead: 25 Principles for Leadership That Matters

“Our spiritual maturity will never exceed our knowledge of the Bible,”
― R. Albert Mohler Jr., The Conviction to Lead: 25 Principles for Leadership That Matters

“Everyone is in a hurry. The persons whom I lead in worship, among whom I counsel, visit, pray, preach, and teach, want shortcuts. They want me to help them fill in the form that will get them instant credit (in eternity). They are impatient for results. They have adopted the lifestyle of a tourist and only want the high points. . . . The Christian life cannot mature under such conditions and in such ways.”
― Albert Mohler, The Conviction to Lead: 25 Principles for Leadership That Matters

“The great aim of leadership is to lead followers continually into a deeper and more comprehensive love for what is most real, most true, most right, and most important.”
― Albert Mohler, The Conviction to Lead: 25 Principles for Leadership That Matters

“If our leaders are not passionately driven by the right beliefs, we are headed for disaster. At the same time, if believers cannot lead, we are headed nowhere.”
― Albert Mohler, The Conviction to Lead: 25 Principles for Leadership That Matters

“Managers can do their work by ordering people to do something, but leaders are never satisfied with people taking orders.”
― R. Albert Mohler Jr., The Conviction to Lead: 25 Principles for Leadership That Matters

“No one who has truly experienced the transforming and redeeming power of the gospel can think of life without passion.”
― R. Albert Mohler Jr., The Conviction to Lead: 25 Principles for Leadership That Matters

“We have turned to a God that we can use rather than a God we must obey; we have turned to a God who will fulfill our needs rather than to a God before whom we must surrender our rights to ourselves. He is a God for us and for our satisfaction, and we have come to assume that it must be so in the church as well. And so we transform the God of mercy into a God who is at our mercy. We imagine that he is benign, that he will acquiesce as we toy with his reality and co-opt him in the promotion of our ventures and careers.”
― R. Albert Mohler Jr., The Conviction to Lead: 25 Principles for Leadership That Matters

“Every great leader is a great teacher, and the greatest leaders seize every opportunity to teach well.”
― Albert Mohler, The Conviction to Lead: 25 Principles for Leadership That Matters

“We cannot lead in a way that is faithful to Christ and effective for Christ’s people if we are not deeply invested in Christian truth. We cannot faithfully lead if we do not first faithfully believe.”
― Albert Mohler, The Conviction to Lead: 25 Principles for Leadership That Matters

“El liderazgo se reduce a proteger la historia, a incluir a otros y a mantener a la organización fiel a ella. El líder narra la historia una y otra vez, la refina, la actualiza e insiste hasta que se entienda.”
― R. Albert Mohler Jr., Un líder de convicciones: 25 principios para un liderazgo relevante

“La vida es demasiado corta como para prestarle mucha atención a los líderes que mantienen poco o nada, los que esperan el siguiente programa o que se suman a la última novedad en materia de liderazgo, los que prueban idea tras idea pero sin estar impulsados por ninguna convicción profunda.”
― R. Albert Mohler Jr., Un líder de convicciones: 25 principios para un liderazgo relevante

“Character”
― R. Albert Mohler Jr., The Conviction to Lead: 25 Principles for Leadership That Matters

“Los líderes apasionados atraen y motivan a los seguidores apasionados. Juntos construyen movimientos apasionados. Cuando esto sucede, todo es posible.”
― R. Albert Mohler Jr., Un líder de convicciones: 25 principios para un liderazgo relevante

“Nadie que haya experimentado de verdad el poder transformador y redentor del evangelio puede pensar en la vida sin pasión.”
― Al Mohler, Un líder de convicciones: 25 principios para un liderazgo relevante

“la cosmovisión cristiana rechaza los intentos de nuestra cultura de separar lo hermoso de lo verdadero o lo bueno.”
― Al Mohler, Un líder de convicciones: 25 principios para un liderazgo relevante

“el cristianismo es una cosmovisión integradora y un modo de vida que surge de la reflexión del cristiano frente a la Biblia y al plan de Dios que se desarrolla y se revela en la unidad de la Escritura.”
― Al Mohler, Un líder de convicciones: 25 principios para un liderazgo relevante

“El verdadero liderazgo comienza con un propósito, no con un plan”
― Al Mohler, Un líder de convicciones: 25 principios para un liderazgo relevante

“Hunter’s insight should serve as a lesson in why moral confusion will not work: We want character but without unyielding conviction; we want strong morality, but without the emotional burden of guilt or shame; we want virtue but without particular moral justifications that invariably offend; we want good without having to name evil; we want decency without the moral authority to insist upon it; we want moral community without any limitations to personal freedom. In short, we want what we cannot have on the terms that we want it.”
― R. Albert Mohler Jr., The Conviction to Lead: 25 Principles for Leadership That Matters

“Think about this: Most Americans consider the president of the United States to be the highest office of secular leadership imaginable. But how many Americans can name even twenty or thirty of the forty-four men who have held that office? When was the last time you heard someone mention Chester A. Arthur or William Henry Harrison?”
― R. Albert Mohler Jr., The Conviction to Lead: 25 Principles for Leadership That Matters

“As one proverbial deacon said of his pastor, “Oh, he knows a lot, but he can’t lead a decent two-car funeral procession.”
― R. Albert Mohler Jr., The Conviction to Lead: 25 Principles for Leadership That Matters

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― R. Albert Mohler Jr., The Conviction to Lead: 25 Principles for Leadership That Matters

“management is not the same thing as leadership.”
― R. Albert Mohler Jr., The Conviction to Lead: 25 Principles for Leadership That Matters

“True Leadership Starts With a Purpose, Not a Plan”
― R. Albert Mohler Jr., The Conviction to Lead: 25 Principles for Leadership That Matters

“Organizations thrive when leaders make the right decisions, and they fail when leaders make the wrong ones. What is often less obvious is the fact that organizations can suffer worse when leaders refuse to make any decision at all. Indecisiveness is one of history’s greatest leadership killers.”
― R. Albert Mohler Jr., The Conviction to Lead: 25 Principles for Leadership That Matters

“As Drucker explains, the fundamental task of management is “to make people capable of joint performance by giving them common goals, common values, the right structure, and the ongoing training and development they need to perform and to respond to change.” You”
― R. Albert Mohler Jr., The Conviction to Lead: 25 Principles for Leadership That Matters

“The leaders who make the biggest difference are those with long tenure. Great impact requires a lengthy term of leadership, and the leader who wants to make a difference had better make a public commitment to stay. Organizations”
― R. Albert Mohler Jr., The Conviction to Lead: 25 Principles for Leadership That Matters

“We have turned to a God that we can use rather than a God we must obey; we have turned to a God who will fulfill our needs rather than to a God before whom we must surrender our rights to ourselves. He is a God for us and for our satisfaction, and we have come to assume that it must be so in the church as well. And so we transform the God of mercy into a God who is at our mercy. We imagine that he is benign, that he will acquiesce as we toy with his reality and co-opt him in the promotion of our ventures and careers. In”
― R. Albert Mohler Jr., The Conviction to Lead: 25 Principles for Leadership That Matters