Mel Lawrenz famous quotes

Grief is not a problem to be fixed but a process to be lived out.
-- Mel Lawrenz

#Grief #Problem #Process

Leadership that is entirely self-directed will always be pathological.  The only thing worse than worshipping an idol is to act like an idol.
-- Mel Lawrenz

#Self #Idols

There is only one line of sight that will bring order to all our life and work: a vision of Christ seated at the right hand of God the Father, ruling with all justice and mercy.  Our influence only means something if it is plotted along that trajectory, and our work ultimately leads people to that same goal.
-- Mel Lawrenz

#Father #Mean #Sight

The only enduring influence we have to offer others is the influence God has in our own lives.
-- Mel Lawrenz

#Influence #Endure #Offers

No one really wants to follow you per se.  They really don’t.  They want to know that, by following you, they are really following a higher principle, a transcendent truth.  In spiritual followership, people want to know whether they are being led and influenced by God.
-- Mel Lawrenz

#Spiritual #People #Want

God uses millions of no-name influencers every day in the simplest selfless acts of service.  They are the teachers whose names will never be in the newspaper, pastors who will never author a book, managers who will never be profiled in a magazine, artists whose work is buried in layers of collaboration, writers whose sphere of influence is a few dozen people who read their blogs.  But they are the army that makes things happen.  To them devotion is its own reward.  For them influence is a continual act of giving, nothing more complicated than that.
-- Mel Lawrenz

#Teacher #Book #Army

Taking delight in random encounters that come our way is a wonderful reminder that God is in control.
-- Mel Lawrenz

#Way #Encounters #Delight

All of us are embarrassed by some of what we are.
-- Mel Lawrenz

#Embarrassed

Give me a land of boughs in leaf A land of trees that stand; Where trees are fallen there is grief; I love no leafless land.

Chorus: Zeus, who guided men to think who laid it down that wisdom comes alone through suffering. Still there drips in sleep against the heart grief of memory; against our pleasure we are temperate.

A dead grief is easier to bear than a live trouble.

I have talked with representatives from the two other parties who said they had no problem with the offer either.

Fear is a killer, when it comes to the creative process.

The struggle for morality never stays won. It's always in process.

The process of innovation is, of course, never ending.

What's interesting about the process of acting is how often you don't know what you're doing.

The democratic process on which this nation was founded should not be restricted to the political process, but should be applied to the industrial operation as well.

I fell in love with the process of taking pictures, with wandering around finding things. To me it feels like a kind of performance. The picture is a document of that performance.