Quotes about Empowerment

spiritual leadership transcends the power or personality and all other natural gifts. The personality of the spiritual leader influences others because it is penetrated, saturated, and empowered by the Holy Spirit. As the leader gives control of his life to the Spirit, the Spirit's power flows through him to others.

True greatness, true leadership, is found in giving yourself in service to others, not in coaxing or inducing others to serve you.

If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

I grew up hearing stories about my grandmother - my mother's mother - who used to go to villages in India in her little VW bug. My grandmother would take a bullhorn and make sure women in these villages knew how to access birth control.

When I was a 12-year-old middle-schooler in Richmond, Virginia, my local newspaper published an op-ed that I wrote all by myself.

The Holy Spirit doesn't need your help.

simply by our proximity to Jesus, we can bring hope and life to people and places trapped in discouragement and despair.

As we will soon discover, admitting we are not God—not in control, not running anything, not responsible for everyone's well-being, not the solution for everything and everyone, not at the center of all things—doesn't belittle us; it frees us.

Now is the time to walk in the freedom that he has won.

You are alive in the Spirit, alive by the Spirit, alive for Christ, alive in Christ, to live the life of Christ so that He might be glorified.

I don't fix problems. I fix my thinking. Then problems fix themselves.

What you choose to think about yourself and about your life becomes true for you.