N. T. Wright Quotes

Skepticism has never founded empires, established principals, or changed the world's heart. The great doers in history have always been people of faith.

For me, leadership is making a difference. It's using your agency to bring about change.

Now, a leader must cause things to happen and lives to be affected. Something should move and change. He must see that those under him do not fail. But it should be done in the Lord's way.

Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world.

America is hungry for people who believe in something.

To be a leader is to be awake and dissatisfied at all times. Leadership is action. Leadership is influence

I have a vision of my country, and I cannot sit and watch things pass by.

Vision is a lot more than putting a plaque on the wall. A real vision is lived, not framed.

This is the only leadership life I get, my one and only shot at following God the way I feel him prompting me to do so. This isn't some pre-game warm-up. It's the game, and the clock is ticking!

Our job is not to figure out the 'how'. The 'how' will show up out of the commitment and believe in the 'what

Who am I, that I should go unto Pharaoh, and that I should bring forth the children of Israel out of Egypt?

Jesus modeled a purpose-driven life, and he taught others how to live it, too. That was the "work" that brought glory to God.

It’s not our job to assess the merit of our vision or judge its importance. It is our job to receive the vision and act upon it.

In a world where there is so much to be done, I felt strongly impressed that there must be something for me to do.

I had been looking for leaders, but I realized that leadership is about being the first to act.

You were given that pain and that vision because you have something to do with it.

Vision animates, inspires, transforms purpose into action.

I do believe that the buck stops here, that I cannot rely upon public opinion polls to tell me what is right. I do believe that right makes might and that if I am wrong, 10 angels swearing I was right would make no difference. I do believe, with all my heart and mind and spirit, that I, not as President but as a humble servant of God, will receive justice without mercy if I fail to show mercy.

We can change the course of events if we go to our knees in believing prayer.

Jesus Christ had a sense of destiny.

Leadership is about calling people to do things beyond themselves.

We have a responsibility in our time, as others have had in theirs, not to be prisoners of history but to shape history, a responsibility to fill the role of path-finder, and to build with others a global network of purpose and law.

A fundamental responsibility of leadership is make sure that everybody knows the mission, understands it, lives it.

More often than politicians, but not as often as they should.

Anyone who waits for someone else to make a change automatically becomes the follower.