Dan B. Allender Quotes

So take seriously the story that God has given you to live. It’s time to read your own life, because your story is the one that could set us all ablaze.

Christ never intended to cover up the dark side of life, but rather to illuminate a path through it.

The work of restoration cannot begin until a problem is fully faced.

Healing comes when our story is raw, bone-deep and full of hunger for what only Jesus can offer.

Strength is found in weakness. Control is found in dependency. Power is found in surrender.

Every addiction is an attempt to slay hope.

If we want to create a different future, we must have the courage to look at the past.

Most people want to grow, but the price of growth is pain.

Every marriage moves either toward enhancing one another’s glory or toward degrading each other.

Stories don't give answers, but they do offer perspective.

The desire for beauty, the hunger for union, the passion to be part of something greater than self, all arise out of our bent to worship.

To experience brokenness and humiliation all you have to do is lead.

The sole reason to serve as a Christian is Jesus, yet He is easily lost in the various activities that consume our days.

Courage never takes away fear; courage simply redistributes fear to get the job done.

Grace. Loss. Fortune. Hardship. Victory. Sometimes the worst seat is best seat in the house and it comes as a result of leading.

Love cannot last without a foundation of forgiveness.

The more you openly name your struggles, the less people can use your silence as a back door to blackmail you, to sabotage your leadership, or to subvert relationships within the organization.

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

Buzyness, however, is moral laziness because it involves refusing to live with courage and intentionality.

If you are a leader, it is not possible to be at peace with all and friends with everyone.

Life is war, and marriage provides us with a close and intimate ally with whom we may wage this war. The battle requires bold love, forgiveness, confrontation, and repentance.

For most leaders, humility comes only by wounds suffered from foolish falls.

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.

It is God's design to use reluctant servants to usher in glory.

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

One of the best sources of perspective is enemies. If we can learn from them, then we can profit from anyone.

In order to reclaim the joy and passion of leadership, we must walk the valley of the shadow of death and name the cost of leadership.

To dream alone is fantasy if it doesn't move the heart to act.

The more we walk the path first while becoming last and least in our organizations, the more we become like the Alpha and Omega whom we long to serve.

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

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

The desert shatters the soul's arrogance and leaves body and soul crying out in thirst and hunger. In the desert we trust God or die.