Quotes from Wayne Cordeiro

Solitude is a chosen separation for refining your soul. Isolation is what you crave when you neglect the first.

Your] dream will challenge, prod and haunt you until you surrender to its call.

We can teach what we know, but ultimately, we will reproduce what we are.

there are two pains in life: the pain of discipline, or the pain of regret. You choose.

Prayer is thinking deeply about something in the presence of God.

The promise of a dreamer's future will always remain greater than their present ability. God will always give them dreams that are further along than their current level of maturity.

God must first accomplish something in you before he can accomplish something through you.

The more you continue to read Scripture, the more you begin to think as He thinks and act as He acts. And that's how, over time, you gain the wisdom of the ages.

God] deposits a dream of what we can be for Him, a dream that acts as our internal honing device.

An entire nation shook under the power of one man's [MLK's] dream! Now if one dream can do that for our nation, imagine what a dream can do for the Church.

I used to pray, "I'm gonna live for God!" Now I pray, "God, come live through me." I used to pray, "I'm gonna work for God!" Now I pray, "God, come do your work through me." I used to pray, "I'm gonna serve God!" Now I pray, "God, please come and serve through

Remember that suffering will change you, but not necessarily for the better. You must choose to grow better not bitter.

In the information age in which we live, technology has a way of selling us on convenience. If something can't be done electronically, we are not interested in doing it. But the bottom line for effective ministry must never be our own convenience. It takes blisters, commitment, and a willingness to go wherever the Lord leads us to get it done. This may be a foreign concept to some leaders;

I drove hard on all cylinders, not realizing that being an entrepreneur means that everything you initiate, by default you must add to your maintenance list.

So long as breath remains in our lungs, untapped potential lies inside us, waiting to be released. The reason we are still alive is that we are carrying something inside us that this generation needs. That's why we're not yet in heaven.

We won't be held accountable for how much we have done, but for how much we have done of what He has asked us to do.

I've heard someone say that faith can be defined as living in advance what you will understand only in reverse.

Only you can keep yourself spiritually healthy by feeding yourself. No one can do it for you by proxy.

Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength." CHARLES H. SPURGEON

Friendships are not made in the blur of life. They are made in the margins.

Restore to me the joy of Your salvation and sustain me with a willing spirit. (Psalm 51:12)

Until I began to see my depression as a constant reminder that I needed to stay close to God, it was simply an annoying pain that plagued me daily. My first step toward rehabilitation was to see my depression as a positive challenge that drew me closer to Christ on a daily basis.

A leader's role is not to maintain. It is to gain altitude!

Only I can give myself permission to rest or to overachieve, to pace myself or to run at the pace others expect of me.