Leadership starts with understanding responsibility, not ability. Leadership is a Stewardship, not a show.
Rick WarrenFailure isn't a character quality. It's just an event. How you respond to failure is your character.
Rick WarrenThe Bible makes it really clear that if I am not receptive to the grace of God I am headed toward wrath.
Rick WarrenSo when you say who does Christ die for? He died for the church, okay. I don't think God's death on the cross through Christ was a failure, if you are saying that. I do not believe that anybody he intended to die for is failing in that area.
Rick WarrenYou are not an accident. Your birth was no mistake or mishap, and your life is no fluke of nature. Your parents may not have planned you, but God did. ... Long before you were conceived by your parents, you were conceived in the mind of God. He thought of you first. It is not fate, nor chance, nor luck, nor coincidence that you are breathing this very moment. You are alive because God wanted to create you!
Rick Warren