Christian Leader Quotes

Mother Teresa

Saint Peter

Ignatius of Loyola

Benedict of Nursia

Anthony of Padua

Athanasius of Alexandria

Vincent de Paul

The true way and the sure way to friendship is through humility-being open to each other, accepting each other just as we are, knowing each other.

Only by being a man or woman for others does one become fully human.

Other books we may read and criticise. To the Scriptures we must bow the entire soul, with all its faculties.

Edward Norris Kirk

We hear from the saints who experienced prayer power that prayer gives wings to humans lifting them up so they can fly.

Matta El Meskeen

Though leadership may be hard to define, the one characteristic common to all leaders is the ability to make things happen.

There are moments in history when a door for massive change opens, and great revolutions for good or evil spring up in the vacuum created by these openings. In these divine moments key men and women and even entire generations risk everything to become the hinge of history, the pivotal point that determines which way the door will swing.

I would like the angels of Heaven to be among us.
I would like an abundance of peace.
I would like full vessels of charity.
I would like rich treasures of mercy.
I would like cheerfulness to preside over all.
I would like Jesus to be present.
I would like the three Marys of illustrious renown to be with us.
I would like the friends of Heaven to be gathered around us from all parts.
I would like myself to be a rent payer to the Lord; that I should suffer distress, that he would bestow a good blessing upon me.
I would like a great lake of beer for the King of Kings.
I would like to be watching Heaven's family drinking it through all eternity.

Brigit of Kildare

Peace is not automatic. It is a gift of the grace of God. It comes when hearts are exposed to the love of Christ. But this always costs something. For the love of Christ was demonstrated through suffering and those who experience that love can never put it into practice without some cost.

Festo Kivengere

In every waking hour a sacred theater is in session, played out before an audience that is largely blind.

If I ask Him to receive me,
Will He say me nay?
Not till earth, and not till heaven
Pass away.

Stephen the Hymnographer

If the eternal King started in Bethlehem, so will anyone who follows Him.

To be a gentleman does not depend upon the tailor or the toilet. Good clothes are not good habits. A gentleman is just a gentle-man, — no more, no less; a diamond polished, that was first a diamond in the rough.

William Croswell Doane

Summa, "the eye hath not seen, the ear hath not heard, neither hath it entered into the heart of man," that they shall then inherit and most surely enjoy; although here they be tormented, prisoned, burned, solicited of Satan, tempted of the flesh, and entangled with the world; wherethrough they are enforced to cry, "Thy kingdom come:" come, Lord.

The time [will] come when a thousand students [will] be assembled on the hill for the purpose of seeing an education.

David Jewett Waller, Sr.

Listen carefully, my child, to your master's precepts, and incline the ear of your heart. Receive willingly and carry out effectively your loving father's advice, that by the labor of obedience you may return to Him from whom you had departed by the sloth of disobedience.

Benedict of Nursia

Acquire a peaceful spirit and then thousands of others around you will be saved.

Seraphim of Sarov

No one can whistle a symphony. It takes an orchestra to play it.

Halford E. Luccock

Whenever, in any century, whether in a single heart or in a company of believers, there has been a fresh effusion of the Spirit, there has followed inevitably a fresh endeavor in the work of evangelizing the world.

Adoniram Judson Gordon

The soul that on Jesus hath leaned for repose,
I will not — I will not desert to his foes;
That soul — though all hell should endeavor to shake,
I'll never — no never — no never forsake.

Only by taking Jesus' example into every part of our lives will we be able to win in life.

Loren Cunningham

There can be no purity whilst the flesh of creatures is partaken of and inhumanity towards the creatures practised.

John Todd Ferrier

Cast thy burden on the Lord,
Only lean upon His word;
Thou wilt soon have cause to bless
His unchanging faithfulness.

For lo! the days are hastening on,
By prophet-bards foretold,
When with the ever-circling years,
Comes round the age of gold;
When Peace shall over all the earth
Its ancient splendors fling
And the whole world send back the song
Which now the angels sing.

In this awfully stupendous manner, at which Reason stands aghast, and Faith herself is half confounded, was the grace of God to man at length manifested.

Nothing is true but Love, nor aught of worth; Love is the incense which doth sweeten earth.

Richard Chenevix Trench