Quotes About Followers

Meanwhile there was great activity among the camp followers, those weathered and sinewy women who had seen battle before, even if their position at the rear driving the heavy wagons had usually spared them actual involvement. They fletched arrows, tested bows, put their knives to the whetstone.

He who thinks he leads, but has no followers, is only taking a walk.

What the church most needs is not heroes of faith, but faithful followers of Jesus.

Christianity is the only faith whose founder died for His followers in order to enable them to escape the consequences of their sins.

Don't follow those who can talk a big game about their amazing faith in Christ. Follow people who are actually following Christ.

When we experience unfairness, it is privilege and responsibility as followers of Christ to respond with honesty and integrity, doing what is right, just and fair.

And it had worked; he had looked like a fool when he attempted to call out the general. What I and the general had underestimated were the number of other assembly members who would willingly continue to follow a fool.

Free men cannot start a war, but once it is started, they can fight on in defeat. Herd men, followers of a leader, cannot do that, and so it is always the herd men who win battles and the free men who win wars. You will find that is so, sir.

I don't fear God- I fear His believers.

Don't fear sharing your best ideas online: 1) Competition already knows what you are up to 2) People like leaders not followers.

When Jesus called his followers "the salt of the earth," he was telling them that they were irreplaceable, and that their mission was to give people what makes life worth living.

I find that the earnest followers of Christ have very little rest here. Like our Master, we must be about our Father's business.

La mentira de que instauraría un trono, fantasma inventado por sus enemigos y extrañamente acogido por sus seguidores, había caldeado las pasiones hasta un punto febril.

Scarcely any law of our Redeemer is more openly transgressed, or more industriously evaded, than that by which he commands his followers to forgive injuries. Samuel

Don't compare twitter with reality. You have tons of followers doesn't mean they are many people out there supporting you.

A man is only a leader when a follower stands beside him.

How the church communicates its message, how it tells and lives "the old, old story," and why and how that story matters today is all part of the work the church needs to do. How churches organize themselves and whether they snap, crackle and pop in the way some think they should is not primarily about money, size or technology. The issues are more basic: will the church embody and articulate its only legitimate identity? Will God's people live as followers of Jesus?

When you expect the best, one of the risks is that you will not be grounded in reality. However, optimism is not about ignoring the facts. You still need the facts. You also need people around you to tell you the truth. However, there is greater risk in expecting the worst. Pessimists will have trouble attracting followers. They will be timid and avoid risks. And the opportunity and rewards that go with that risks will forever illude the leader.

not meant to serve the political expedients of a class of governing masterminds and their fanatical followers.

This is why governments all over the world love missionaries—they civilize people and get them into the money system," Suelo observes now, but at the time he was flabbergasted. What of Jesus's teaching his followers to give up possessions? "And suddenly it dawned on me: if you were going to call something Antichrist, this would be it. The people who were promoting this so-called Christianity are really Antichrist.

If you don't want your followers to give up in disgust, your inspiration needs to be in the service of goals that are at least attainable.

Whether you're leading other people or leading the follower in you, the obstacles to achieving your goals are the same.

It means thinking collaboratively, about the power of followers not just of leaders. It means

That means thinking about power differently. It means decoupling it from public prestige. It means thinking collaboratively, about the power of followers not just of leaders. It means, above all, thinking about power as an attribute or even a verb ('to power'), not as a possession.