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Tim Norman
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Leadership is influence. Spiritual leadership is spiritual influence. I like the way Henry Blackaby defines spiritual leadership as “moving people onto God’s agenda.” Blackaby’s definition seems simple, but it has profound implications for
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“And yet all loneliness, angers, hatreds, envies, and itchings that (Hell) contains, if rolled into one single experience and put into the scale against the least moment of the joy that is felt by the least in Heaven, would have no weight that could be registered at all. Bad cannot succeed even in being bad as truly as good is good.”
― The Great Divorce
― The Great Divorce
“The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between the two, the leader must become a servant and a debtor. That sums up the progress of an artful leader.”
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“Only Socrates knew, after a lifetime of unceasing labor, that he was ignorant. Now every high-school student knows that. How did it become so easy?”
― The Closing of the American Mind
― The Closing of the American Mind
“Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
― The Four Loves
― The Four Loves
“Openness used to be the virtue that permitted us to seek the good by using reason. It now means accepting everything and denying reason’s power.”
― The Closing of the American Mind
― The Closing of the American Mind
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