Global Leadership Summit Live Blog – 37 Leadership Quotes From Lysa TerKeurst on Forgiveness

For the next two days I will be live blogging the Global Leadership Summit.  This is a special moment as the Summit will be celebrating its 25th year of investing in leaders.

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Day 2’s next speaker was Lysa TerKeurst.  Reaching millions of people through her writing and teaching, Lysa is the President of Proverbs 31 Ministries and founder of COMPEL Writer Training. TerKeurst has been published in many publications, featured on Fox News, Oprah and The Today Show and has been awarded the Champions of Faith Author Award. She is the best-selling author of more than 20 books, including It’s Not Supposed to Be This Way: Finding Unexpected Strength When Disappointments Leave You Shattered.

The following are 37 Leadership Quotes From Lysa’s session on Forgiveness:

1. The most surprising hindrance to your innovation. Innovation is no longer a good idea.  It is a matter of survival.
2. Innovation is the mystery that someone on your team is dying to solve, if only you’ll make them feel safe enough to do so.
3. When people feel safe, they are much more likely to take a risk.
4. Most don’t think about forgiveness as a business tool.
5. “Truly transformational leaders are acutely aware of the cost of animosity.” – Forbes
6. Holding grudges is a form of arrested development. It holds people back.
7. People who don’t make any mistakes don’t do anything…. They’re not going to try anything new.
8. “Modern organizations cannot survive without people who yearn to take risks.” – Forbes
9. The non-forgiving boss is always creating an environment that suppresses of innovation.
10. Forgiveness is not a message I ever wanted to give. It’s not a message I ever wanted to learn to have to live.  Forgiveness, we all need it.  But even more, we have to give it.
11. The real payoff of forgiveness is you deserve to stop suffering because of what other people have done to you.
12. You traded your pain for perspective. You exchanged that wounding for wisdom.
13. The message of forgiveness came hunting for me.
14. We need to get into God’s Word because He sees what’s coming and He wants to prepare us for the good and not so good.
15. God said, “Trust my timing and love your husband.”
16. Art being unfaithful didn’t just break my heart. It shattered my world.
17. I said, “I know how to run a company and meet goals but I don’t know how to survive this.”
18. There never seems to be a perfect day for forgiveness.
19. Forgiveness does not always require reconciliation or is it always safe.
20. Reconciliation is conditional.
21. Forgiveness is a decision and a process.
22. Forgiveness is not for the other person. It is the only way to sever the suffering.  There’s been enough suffering.
23. You may tie your healing to a decision that other person may never make.
24. Forgiveness is my decision that I can make and it’s not tied to another person.
25. My counselor gave witness to the pain I was in.
26. Your feelings will likely be the last thing that sign on to forgiveness.
27. Forgiveness is God’s forgiveness to me and cooperating with Him will flow through me.
28. Forgiveness is made possible by my cooperation with what Jesus has already done.
29. We deserve to stop suffering because of what other people have done to us.
30. Jesus knows the human heart was not created to carry the weight of unforgiveness.
31. The heavy weight of unforgiveness is the weight of anxiety and chaos.
32. Confession quiets the chaos in me. Forgiveness quiets the chaos between us.
33. Getting off the blank page is worthy work. Every idea is worthy work.  You’re safe to be innovative.
34. We give grace because we desperately need it.
35. This is a safe place for imperfect progress.
36. I love Art. He’s an amazing man.  He’s a transformed human being.  Everything I learned about leadership I learned from him.
37. The best to forgive is before we’re ever offended.  The second best time is right now.

What an incredible morning it has been!  Get ready!!!  Next up is Lysa TerKeurst.  Make sure you check back regularly for live blog updates.

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