The Heart of a Servant Leader Quotes

“Remember, the only real leader you have is Jesus Christ. Unless you are daily taught of Him you will not be able to make the right decisions. To get to Him you need to pray, but it needs to be prayer of a unique quality. You can pray all night and all day and still not be in touch with His will. Prayer is not full and effective unless it adds up to our learning to wait upon the Lord for Him to make known His will. He needs to break down our tendency to cry out in prayer "Your will be done," and then to get up and still try to impose our will on circumstances.”
― C. John Miller, The Heart of a Servant Leader: Letters from Jack Miller

“A pastor really needs to be broken before God every day, or he will break up the church of God with his willfulness or let it slip into spiritual death through his sloth.”
― C. John Miller, The Heart of a Servant Leader: Letters from Jack Miller

“God-given prayer and praise have as their essence a waiting on God, a willingness to be wrought upon by the hammer and the fire of the Almighty, until the chains of self-centered desires fall away from the personality, and the love of Christ become the deepest hunger of the inner life.”
― C. John Miller, The Heart of a Servant Leader: Letters from Jack Miller

“Recently I was caught up in a spirit of anxiety. Nothing would shake it. But I simply gave myself to thanking and praising God for everything I could think of.”
― C. John Miller, The Heart of a Servant Leader: Letters from Jack Miller

“What I finally came to as I walked and prayed for you is the old, old story of getting the gospel clear in your own hearts and minds, making it clear to others, and doing it with only one motive — the glory of Christ. Getting the glory of Christ before your eyes and keeping it there — is the greatest work of the Spirit that I can imagine. And there is no greater peace, especially in the times of treadmill-like activity, than doing it all for the glory of the Lord Jesus. Think much of the Savior's suffering for you on that dreadful cross, think much of your sin that provoked such suffering, and then enter by faith into the love that took away your sin and guilt, and then give your work your best. Give it your heart out of gratitude for a tender, seeking, and patient Savior. Then every event becomes a shiny glory moment to be cherished — whether you drink tea or try to get the verb forms of the new language.”
― C. John Miller, The Heart of a Servant Leader: Letters from Jack Miller

“Don’t let your emotional life be controlled by the sin you see in others.”
― C. John Miller, The Heart of a Servant Leader: Letters from Jack Miller

“So especially ask yourself: what is my concern for the glory of God in my life? How much am I led by concern for my own comfort and feeling of well-being? Do I witness out of enjoyment of God? Do I love people—not just on the mission field, but people? Am I willing to imitate the Good Shepherd and die for them? Do I really know the power of the Holy Spirit as I daringly witness? Do I really confront the lost with heaven and hell? Am I repenting regularly?”
― C. John Miller, The Heart of a Servant Leader: Letters from Jack Miller

“Dan Herron, WHM missionary, says, “There is no greater problem in the local church and on the mission field today than Christians spreading bad reports about one another.”
― C. John Miller, The Heart of a Servant Leader: Letters from Jack Miller

“There is no power without prayer and there is no power in prayer without a resolve to endure all things for the sake of Jesus. A”
― C. John Miller, The Heart of a Servant Leader: Letters from Jack Miller

“The Grand Privilege—experiencing empowerment through suffering: To seek grace in prayer in order to welcome suffering as the vehicle for realizing”
― C. John Miller, The Heart of a Servant Leader: Letters from Jack Miller

“But, in reality, to speak so plainly to the Father is to begin the move to the Father’s house.”
― C. John Miller, The Heart of a Servant Leader: Letters from Jack Miller

“Blessed are those who dwell in your house; they are ever praising you.”
― C. John Miller, The Heart of a Servant Leader: Letters from Jack Miller

“That new perspective can give us a fulfillment which goes beyond our sweetest dreams. That fulfillment consists in being almost forced to rest in God or perish in despair.”
― C. John Miller, The Heart of a Servant Leader: Letters from Jack Miller

“We do mean to urge you not to take your identity from your suffering and having been made a victim, even a mutilated one.”
― C. John Miller, The Heart of a Servant Leader: Letters from Jack Miller

“The forest path may be dark, but the child puts his hand in his Father’s hand and then fears no evil. Nothing that walks in darkness can match my Father’s strength. Just keep your hand in His. Trust Him.”
― C. John Miller, The Heart of a Servant Leader: Letters from Jack Miller

“Instead, it must come from my understanding God Himself as He is revealed as a Father of all love in the self-giving of His Son.”
― C. John Miller, The Heart of a Servant Leader: Letters from Jack Miller

“Matthew 11:29, “Learn of me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart.”
― C. John Miller, The Heart of a Servant Leader: Letters from Jack Miller

“It was simply that God was still a God of infinite love and compassion, but not according to my ideas, but to His; and I had to see that I was not in any way in the same league with Him.”
― C. John Miller, The Heart of a Servant Leader: Letters from Jack Miller

“Take the person addicted to drugs. He cannot get off them for the simple reason he does not want to get off them. The day he wants to get off them he does. But until he really wants to be changed he always has a secret intention in the heart not to go off the drugs. The rest is all talk.”
― C. John Miller, The Heart of a Servant Leader: Letters from Jack Miller

“Her next point is that people really can’t stand to look closely at themselves and these patterns unless they understand justification by faith and union with Christ.”
― C. John Miller, The Heart of a Servant Leader: Letters from Jack Miller

“In it she makes the point that it is important to know your family roots and the sin patterns you have inherited.”
― C. John Miller, The Heart of a Servant Leader: Letters from Jack Miller

“By faith you need to see how any attempt by us to run our lives without humble submission to God puts us in a position of having to control the uncontrollable”
― C. John Miller, The Heart of a Servant Leader: Letters from Jack Miller

“We all have a frightening tendency to avoid and draw back from people of wisdom who really know us—at least to draw back when they may tell us something that threatens our image of our inner self as righteous.”
― C. John Miller, The Heart of a Servant Leader: Letters from Jack Miller

“I reject this negativistic thinking as unbelief and claim my relationship with God as my Father through faith in Jesus Christ.”
― C. John Miller, The Heart of a Servant Leader: Letters from Jack Miller

“He may have a surface belief that his sins are forgiven, but it doesn’t control the core of his being and supply him with the confidence that his sins really are forgiven.”
― C. John Miller, The Heart of a Servant Leader: Letters from Jack Miller

“Therefore your refusal to forgive is a grievous sin against God, a taking of His work as Judge.”
― C. John Miller, The Heart of a Servant Leader: Letters from Jack Miller

“But it has a hard part too. It is humbling to believe in Him. It is difficult for us to admit we have things in us and problems we cannot solve ourselves.”
― C. John Miller, The Heart of a Servant Leader: Letters from Jack Miller

“Jesus does expect you to see what a forgiveness you have received and then to forgive others and keep on forgiving others. Put on forgiveness as your whole new life.”
― C. John Miller, The Heart of a Servant Leader: Letters from Jack Miller

“Bitterness, condemnation of others, will rob a genuine believer of his or her fellowship with Jesus, and raise questions about assurance.”
― C. John Miller, The Heart of a Servant Leader: Letters from Jack Miller

“Secondly, Christ calls us to abandon trust in our own strength and righteousness.”
― C. John Miller, The Heart of a Servant Leader: Letters from Jack Miller