Wayne Cordeiro > Quotes

“Solitude is a chosen separation for refining your soul. Isolation is what you crave when you neglect the first.”
― Wayne Cordeiro, Leading on Empty: Refilling Your Tank and Renewing Your Passion

“We don't forget that we are Christians. We forget that we are human, and that one oversight alone can debilitate the potential of our future.”
― Wayne Cordeiro, Leading on Empty: Refilling Your Tank and Renewing Your Passion

“We can teach what we know, but ultimately, we will reproduce what we are.”
― Wayne Cordeiro, Sifted: Pursuing Growth through Trials, Challenges, and Disappointments

“[Your] dream will challenge, prod and haunt you until you surrender to its call.”
― Wayne Cordeiro

“Prayer is thinking deeply about something in the presence of God.”
― Wayne Cordeiro, Leading on Empty: Refilling Your Tank and Renewing Your Passion

“there are two pains in life: the pain of discipline, or the pain of regret. You choose.”
― Wayne Cordeiro, Sifted: Pursuing Growth through Trials, Challenges, and Disappointments

“God must first accomplish something in you before he can accomplish something through you.”
― Wayne Cordeiro, Sifted: Pursuing Growth through Trials, Challenges, and Disappointments

“The promise of a dreamer’s future will always remain greater than their present ability. God will always give them dreams that are further along than their current level of maturity.”
― Wayne Cordeiro

“The more you continue to read Scripture, the more you begin to think as He thinks and act as He acts. And that’s how, over time, you gain the wisdom of the ages.”
― Wayne Cordeiro, The Divine Mentor: Growing Your Faith as You Sit at the Feet of the Savior

“[God] deposits a dream of what we can be for Him, a dream that acts as our internal honing device.”
― Wayne Cordeiro

“An entire nation shook under the power of one man’s [MLK’s] dream! Now if one dream can do that for our nation, imagine what a dream can do for the Church.”
― Wayne Cordeiro

“I came across a contemporary version of the twenty-third Psalm entitled “Psalm 23 Revisited.” In it, the author captures perfectly where many of us are today: The clock is my dictator, I shall not rest. It makes me lie down only when exhausted. It leads me into deep depression, it hounds my soul. It leads me in circles of frenzy for activities’ sake. Even though I run frantically from task to task, I will never get it all done, for my “ideal” is with me. Deadlines and my need for approval, they drive me. They demand performance from me, beyond the limits of my schedule. They anoint my head with migraines, my in-basket overflows. Surely fatigue and time pressure shall follow me all the days of my life. And I will dwell in the bonds of frustration forever.1”
― Wayne Cordeiro, Leading on Empty: Refilling Your Tank and Renewing Your Passion

“I used to pray, “I’m gonna live for God!” Now I pray, “God, come live through me.” I used to pray, “I’m gonna work for God!” Now I pray, “God, come do your work through me.” I used to pray, “I’m gonna serve God!” Now I pray, “God, please come and serve through”
― Wayne Cordeiro, Sifted: Pursuing Growth through Trials, Challenges, and Disappointments

“Remember that suffering will change you, but not necessarily for the better. You must choose to grow better not bitter.”
― Wayne Cordeiro, The Divine Mentor: Growing Your Faith as You Sit at the Feet of the Savior

“In the information age in which we live, technology has a way of selling us on convenience. If something can’t be done electronically, we are not interested in doing it. But the bottom line for effective ministry must never be our own convenience. It takes blisters, commitment, and a willingness to go wherever the Lord leads us to get it done. This may be a foreign concept to some leaders;”
― Wayne Cordeiro, Sifted: Pursuing Growth through Trials, Challenges, and Disappointments

“Only you can keep yourself spiritually healthy by feeding yourself. No one can do it for you by proxy.”
― Wayne Cordeiro, The Divine Mentor: Growing Your Faith as You Sit at the Feet of the Savior

“We won’t be held accountable for how much we have done, but for how much we have done of what He has asked us to do.”
― Wayne Cordeiro, Leading on Empty: Refilling Your Tank and Renewing Your Passion

“I drove hard on all cylinders, not realizing that being an entrepreneur means that everything you initiate, by default you must add to your maintenance list.”
― Wayne Cordeiro, Leading on Empty: Refilling Your Tank and Renewing Your Passion

“I’ve heard someone say that faith can be defined as living in advance what you will understand only in reverse.”
― Wayne Cordeiro, Sifted: Pursuing Growth through Trials, Challenges, and Disappointments

“So long as breath remains in our lungs, untapped potential lies inside us, waiting to be released. The reason we are still alive is that we are carrying something inside us that this generation needs. That’s why we’re not yet in heaven.”
― Wayne Cordeiro

“Friendships are not made in the blur of life. They are made in the margins.”
― Wayne Cordeiro, Leading on Empty: Refilling Your Tank and Renewing Your Passion

“Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength." CHARLES H. SPURGEON”
― Wayne Cordeiro, Leading on Empty: Refilling Your Tank and Renewing Your Passion

“Creative affinity means you become increasingly more like that which you love the most.”
― Wayne Cordeiro, The Divine Mentor: Growing Your Faith as You Sit at the Feet of the Savior

“The ultimate measure
of a man is not
where he stands in
moments of comfort
and convenience, but
where he stands at
times of challenge and
controversy.”
MARTIN LUTHER
KING JR.”
― Wayne Cordeiro, Leading on Empty: Refilling Your Tank and Renewing Your Passion

“Loneliness is the
poverty of self; solitude
is the richness of self.”
MAY SARTON”
― Wayne Cordeiro, Leading on Empty: Refilling Your Tank and Renewing Your Passion

“Why meet in a coffee shop? Isn’t that a little distracting?”
― Wayne Cordeiro, The Divine Mentor: Growing Your Faith as You Sit at the Feet of the Savior

“In His grace, God gives you and me a measure of faith to get us going—but it’s not all we’ll need to finish the race, not even close. That we must gather and collect along the way. He designed life like this to keep our hearts teachable and compliant with His heart.”
― Wayne Cordeiro, The Divine Mentor: Growing Your Faith as You Sit at the Feet of the Savior

“It is in the quiet
crucible of your
personal, private
sufferings that your
noblest dreams are
born and God’s greatest
gifts are given in
compensation for what
you have been through.”
WINTLEY PHIPS”
― Wayne Cordeiro, Leading on Empty: Refilling Your Tank and Renewing Your Passion

“Psalm 32:8–9 struck at the core of my error:
I will instruct you and teach you in the way which you should go; I will counsel you with My eye upon you. Do not be as the horse or as the mule which have no understanding, whose trappings include bit and bridle to hold them in check, otherwise they will not come near to you.
I had to admit the ugly truth: I was that horse. I was that mule. It’s no fun making such a confession. It was time for me to take responsibility for my own future.”
― Wayne Cordeiro, The Divine Mentor: Growing Your Faith as You Sit at the Feet of the Savior

“A word aptly spoken is like apples of gold in settings of silver.’’3 Allow God to speak that apt word to you by focusing on one main thought from your daily reading—not five, ten, or a baker’s dozen. One thing.”
― Wayne Cordeiro, The Divine Mentor: Growing Your Faith as You Sit at the Feet of the Savior