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Pursuing God's Will Together: A Discernment Practice for Leadership Groups QUOTES

Pursuing God's Will Together: A Discernment Practice for Leadership Groups QUOTES

1 " We bind ourselves to each other in times of strength so that in moments of weakness we do not become unbound. "

― Ruth Haley Barton , Pursuing God's Will Together: A Discernment Practice for Leadership Groups

2 " When it comes to transformation or deformation, organizational cultures are rarely neutral. For the most part cultural norms will support and catalyze or work against the process of spiritual transformation. Cultivating a culture "

― Ruth Haley Barton , Pursuing God's Will Together: A Discernment Practice for Leadership Groups

3 " Heal our inner sight, O God, that we may know the difference between good and evil. Open our eyes that we may see what is true and what is false. Restore us to wisdom that we may be well in our souls, Restore us to wisdom that we and our world may be well.[2] "

― Ruth Haley Barton , Pursuing God's Will Together: A Discernment Practice for Leadership Groups

4 " Intense conflict is an invitation to turn to God, who wants to lead us forward into restored relationships and into new organizational processes. JAN WOOD, LON FENDALL AND BRUCE BISHOP, PRACTICING DISCERNMENT TOGETHER "

― Ruth Haley Barton , Pursuing God's Will Together: A Discernment Practice for Leadership Groups

5 " So—why do we need a covenant? Because a written covenant makes our commitment real on a level that mere conversation does not. It provides a way for the group to claim shared ownership for their behavior because it contains detailed guidelines that help the group function together in agreed-upon ways. "

― Ruth Haley Barton , Pursuing God's Will Together: A Discernment Practice for Leadership Groups

6 " Discernment, in a most general sense, is the capacity to recognize and respond to the presence and the activity of God—both in the ordinary moments and in the larger decisions of our lives. "

― Ruth Haley Barton , Pursuing God's Will Together: A Discernment Practice for Leadership Groups

7 " there is a way of doing life in leadership that is not so complicated and heavy—a way of making decisions that does not have to rely on our own brilliance and ability to think hard, a way of being involved in God’s work that ends up being more about God’s work than our own. "

― Ruth Haley Barton , Pursuing God's Will Together: A Discernment Practice for Leadership Groups

8 " corporate discernment begins with attending to the spiritual formation of each individual leader. "

― Ruth Haley Barton , Pursuing God's Will Together: A Discernment Practice for Leadership Groups

9 " Most people do not see things as they are; rather, they see things as they are. Richard Rohr "

― Ruth Haley Barton , Pursuing God's Will Together: A Discernment Practice for Leadership Groups

10 " Self-knowledge and self-examination. Parker Palmer makes this very sobering statement about leadership: “A leader is a person who must take special responsibility for what’s going on inside him/herself, inside his or her consciousness, lest the act of leadership create more harm than good. "

― Ruth Haley Barton , Pursuing God's Will Together: A Discernment Practice for Leadership Groups

11 " The grass is not greener “over there”: one must work out one’s problems with this person because if one doesn’t, one will have to work it out with that person. This is precisely what is so freeing about the vow of stability . . . to have to work it out is to demand growth, as painful as it is, and that is freeing. Faithfulness is a limit that forces us to stop running and encounter God, self, and other right now, right here.[2] Lord "

― Ruth Haley Barton , Pursuing God's Will Together: A Discernment Practice for Leadership Groups