Attending Catalyst in Atlanta is a little bit like drinking water from a firehose– here is so much coming at you that it is almost overwhelming! Thankfully, I always purchase the audio sessions from the event so that I can listen to each of the messages again.

I tell people that, for me, Catalyst is a slow burn. Other events or conferences send me home with a new technique or a new curriculum or a new trick that will practically benefit my ministry today. Catalyst is different.

Catalyst does something deep inside of me where thoughts and ideas are ruminated on, processed, and developed over time. As I have thought back over all the leadership goodness I was able to feast on last week, there a few thoughts and ideas that have continued to settle deep inside of me. It is these quotes that have been pushing on my heart and it is these quotes that have arrested my imagination in the quiet and still moments of my day. God is using these thoughts to mold me, change me, and to #MAKE me into the leader he desires me to be. It is my hope that one or all of these will hit you where you are today.

You were MADE to #MAKE a difference.

1) “The greatest thing you do as a leader may not be what you do as a leader but who watches you do what you do.” – @AndyStanley

2) “Your response makes all the difference in the world and is the thing that will determine how God will use you.” – @AndyStanley

3) “”Any organization that wants to make a difference in anything it does must be healthy.” – @PatrickLencioni

4) “Don’t be in a Party. Be a party!” – KidPresident.com

5) “‘NO’ simply means ‘Next Opportunity.'” – @MarkBurnettTV

6) “It is better to be MARKED by God than to be MARKETED by men.” – @ChristineCaine

7) “We’re told to go and make disciples, but we often just sit & make excuses.”- Francis Chan

8) “God will never be handcuffed by your failure or unleashed by your successes!” – @JonAcuff

9) “When we realize that only God is good and our real enemy is Satan, we can make history for the glory of God!”- @craiggroeschel

10) “Don’t blame me.” – Geoffrey Canada