If you lead, you will eventually serve with Judas or Peter.

A reluctant leader is highly suspicious of people who work to accumulate and hoard power.

What originally led us to serve others by leading them seldom remains our North Star.

Idealism may get us into the fray, but it is the loss of all we cherish that begins to form in us a heart capable of leading others reluctantly and humbly.

Reconciliation is not to be withheld when repentance—that is, deep, heart‐changing acknowledgement of sin and a radical redirection of life—takes place in the one being rebuked. Nor is reconciliation to be extended to someone who has not repented.

The cost for the recipient of God’s grace is nothing, and no price could be higher for arrogant people to pay.

Every addiction is an attempt to slay hope.