Quotes about Leadership

In the Kingdom of God there are no great men, only humble men God has used greatly.

Killing one person makes you a murderer. Killing a million people makes you a king. Killing them all makes you God.

No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.

War is young men dying and old men talking

Great power involves great responsibility

There should be no bitterness or hate where the sole thought is the welfare of the United States of America. No man can occupy the office of President without realizing that he is President of all the people.

In this dedication of a Nation we humbly ask the blessing of God. May he protect each and every one of us. May He guide me in the days to come.

There seems to be no question that [Mussolini] is really interested in what we are doing and I am much interested and deeply impressed by what he has accomplished and by his evidenced honest purpose of restoring Italy.

Sheer scholarship alone cannot reveal to us the gospel of grace. We must never allow the authority of books, institutions, or leaders to replace the authority of KNOWING Jesus Christ personally and directly. When the religious views of others interpose between us and the primary experience of Jesus as the Christ, we become unconvicted and unpersuasive travel agents handing out brochures to places we have never visited.

The beginning and the end of all Christian leadership is to give your life for others.

The way of the Christian leader is not the way of upward mobility in which our world has invested so much, but the way of downward mobility ending on the cross.

The Christian leader cannot simply be persons who have well informed opinions about the burning issues of our time.