Jenni Catron > Quotes

“We need to move forward despite our fear because we are equipped with the truth to confront it.”
― Jenni Catron, Clout: Discover and Unleash Your God-Given Influence

“The fear of not measuring up robs us of seeing the value in our influence, and it keeps us on a perpetual quest to be better than others.”
― Jenni Catron, Clout: Discover and Unleash Your God-Given Influence

“Where pride says you have to prove your worth, confidence says God has determined your worth.”
― Jenni Catron, Clout: Discover and Unleash Your God-Given Influence

“Your heart yearns for influence because it is a part of how he created you.”
― Jenni Catron, Clout: Discover and Unleash Your God-Given Influence

“Knowing God and knowing God’s voice aren’t enough if they aren’t accompanied by obedience.”
― Jenni Catron, Clout: Discover and Unleash Your God-Given Influence

“It seems easier to be God than to love God, easier to control people than to love people. —HENRI NOUWEN1”
― Jenni Catron, Clout: Discover and Unleash Your God-Given Influence

“When we discover and unleash our God-given influence, we position ourselves to lead with passion and purpose that defy our personal limitations.”
― Jenni Catron, Clout: Discover and Unleash Your God-Given Influence

“Pride fools others and us into believing that we’ve got it all together. We become unrecognizable to ourselves.”
― Jenni Catron, Clout: Discover and Unleash Your God-Given Influence

“Your personality brings color to your work. Where spiritual gifts and talents create the outline and structure, personality brings the picture of you to life.”
― Jenni Catron, Clout: Discover and Unleash Your God-Given Influence

“The replacement for comparison isn’t overly profound. In fact, it’s simple: Focus on the work you’ve been given.”
― Jenni Catron, Clout: Discover and Unleash Your God-Given Influence

“Your true self is God’s presence in you.”
― Jenni Catron, Clout: Discover and Unleash Your God-Given Influence

“Our lives are arenas for God’s work to be displayed.”
― Jenni Catron, Clout: Discover and Unleash Your God-Given Influence

“It’s easy to get distracted by what God is doing through us and miss what’s unraveling inside us.”
― Jenni Catron, Clout: Discover and Unleash Your God-Given Influence

“When we haven’t done the work of discovering our God-given influence, we build a false identity.”
― Jenni Catron, Clout: Discover and Unleash Your God-Given Influence

“It is and it isn’t about what we do. Our God-given influence isn’t all about what we do, and yet we do have a purpose to accomplish. We don’t do to earn God’s love or acceptance or approval, but we do as a response to the love and grace God has freely given us. We do out of love rather than out of obligation. Our doing is a response of thankfulness to God’s doing in our lives.”
― Jenni Catron, Clout: Discover and Unleash Your God-Given Influence

“Our experiences really aren’t the issue. It’s what we choose to do with them.”
― Jenni Catron, Clout: Discover and Unleash Your God-Given Influence

“To influence others you have to help move them to new realities and possibilities. You can’t take them where you haven’t led yourself. You must be willing to confront your fears and lead others through theirs.”
― Jenni Catron, Clout: Discover and Unleash Your God-Given Influence

“Every hurdle of fear is an opportunity for our faith to grow.”
― Jenni Catron, Clout: Discover and Unleash Your God-Given Influence

“Fear magnifies our weaknesses and it hides our potential.”
― Jenni Catron, Clout: Discover and Unleash Your God-Given Influence

“Honesty creates humility. Self-deception leads to self-destruction.”
― Jenni Catron, Clout: Discover and Unleash Your God-Given Influence

“God gives us big dreams. It’s how we direct those dreams that makes all the difference.”
― Jenni Catron, Clout: Discover and Unleash Your God-Given Influence

“Every time we make a fear-based decision we lose a bit more influence.”
― Jenni Catron, Clout: Discover and Unleash Your God-Given Influence

“I believe God does his greatest work through us when we are aware of our limitations and have to trust and lean into him for outcomes that are too big for us to tackle on our own.”
― Jenni Catron, Clout: Discover and Unleash Your God-Given Influence

“small spark in the form of a frustrated reaction or an insensitive comment can create a blaze of destruction in the hearts of those we lead.”
― Jenni Catron, Clout: Discover and Unleash Your God-Given Influence

“The journey to the center of who we are begins with discovering more about the one who designed us.”
― Jenni Catron, Clout: Discover and Unleash Your God-Given Influence

“To know yourself you have to know your Creator.”
― Jenni Catron, Clout: Discover and Unleash Your God-Given Influence

“We start squeezing the life out of our God-given influence when we attempt to take over and control.”
― Jenni Catron, Clout: Discover and Unleash Your God-Given Influence

“Our temptation to compare distracts us from being who God has called us to be. Rather than focus on what God has purposefully designed us for, we distract ourselves with this clout killer that robs us of leading from a place of security and confidence.”
― Jenni Catron, Clout: Discover and Unleash Your God-Given Influence

“We starve the world when we withhold our influence.”
― Jenni Catron, Clout: Discover and Unleash Your God-Given Influence

“The drive to significance is a simple extension of the creative impulse of God. . . . It is outwardly directed to the good to be done. We were built to count, as water is made to run downhill. We are placed in a specific context to count in ways no one else does. That is our destiny. —DALLAS WILLARD1”
― Jenni Catron, Clout: Discover and Unleash Your God-Given Influence