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The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.
- Max De Pree
A man is too insignificant to be preoccupied with his failures. All of the energy he has is required for attending to the loneliness, the pain, the needs of others.
- Michael Novak
Love is a willingness to sacrifice.
- Michael Novak
Love is not a feeling of happiness. Love is a willingness to sacrifice.
- Michael Novak
Far from being a way to achieve success, ease, and comfort, Christianity calls us to live a life that forgets self and focuses on being God's instrument to show his love to others.
- Michael Smith
We serve at the president's displeasure,
- Michael Wolff
We learned about dignity and decency - that how hard you work matters more than how much you make... that helping others means more than just getting ahead yourself.
- Michelle Obama
The Lord wants much more from His people than for them to be His workforce. He longs to have relationship with those who love Him and to partner with them in accomplishing His purposes.
- Mike Bickle
To make intercession for men is the most powerful and practical way in which we can express our love for them.1 —JOHN CALVIN
- Mike Bickle
A look at Simeon and Anna also shows how God significantly uses older people in serving the Lord through continual prayer and fasting. In our day, God is going to use people who are retired. If you are nearing retirement, your strength has been given to you for this hour, and God has freed you from many things. There's not a more powerful force in the earth than that of senior saints who have time and passion for Jesus.
- Mike Bickle
If we can't live the sacred journey with Christ daily and are not actively drawing others into that journey—way outside the worship center or sanctuary and outside our stained-glass or silk-plant ghettos—we can't expect to do it in an hour on Sunday morning or Wednesday night.
- Mike Breen
Friends are those who serve the cause when they can. Followers are those who submit their skills and resources to have Jesus transform them. But family are those who surrender completely, laying down their agenda fully for the agenda of Jesus. This is what the disciples eventually do.
- Mike Breen