Danny Silk Quotes & Sayings

Discipline works from the inside out, and punishment tries to work from the outside in. — Danny Silk

In a culture of honor, leaders lead with honor by courageously treating people according to the names God gives them and not according to the aliases they receive from people. — Danny Silk

An old meaning of the word 'restoration' is to find someone with a royal bloodline who has been removed from the throne and then restore the person to that throne - to a position of honor. — Danny Silk

Powerful people are not affected or infected by their environment. They refuse to be victims of others. — Danny Silk

Yes, it's vulnerable and scary to keep your love on toward someone who has become a perceived threat-you cannot guarantee what he or she is going to do. But you can guarantee your own choice. And you can always choose connection. — Danny Silk

Typically, people allow differences and mistakes to lower their respect and value for other people. But you know the pillar of honor is strong in a relationship when you can look at the other person and say, You are really different from me. It makes me sad when I see you making that choice. But I love you. I value you, I believe in you, and I am here for you in this relationship. — Danny Silk

A controlling God, who is usually represented by a controlling church leadership, is just not good news. How can church leadership create freedom and not more rules? How can we bring out the best in human beings and keep it at the surface even as we deal with their problems and shortcomings? Can we empower others and release them to live from their best natures and from the truest reasons they are alive? Will we as Christian leaders, parents, and employers take on the responsibility to learn how to draw out the dreams and destiny in the people we lead? — Danny Silk

Shame is removed through love. — Danny Silk

This is because fear and love are enemies. They come from two opposing kingdoms. Fear comes from the devil, who would like nothing more than to keep you permanently disconnected and isolated. Love comes from God, who is always working to heal and restore your connection with Him and other people and bring you into healthy, life-giving relationships. — Danny Silk

In order to be able to make and keep commitments ... to enduring, intimate relationships ... you need to be a certain kind of person. You need to be a powerful person. Powerful people take responsibility for their lives and choices. Powerful people choose who they want to be with, what they are going to pursue in life, and how they are going to go after it. — Danny Silk

One of the symptoms of being free is you begin to dream. — Danny Silk

Jesus defied all of these rules. He taught in the outer courts of the Temple so women could join the audience. — Danny Silk

No one else can steward the fire inside of you because only you are in charge of it. — Danny Silk

One of the reasons people perish without a vision is that they cannot endure the pain and cost required to achieve any worthwhile purpose. — Danny Silk

Powerful people do not try to control other people. They know it doesn't work, and that it's not their job. Their job is to control themselves. — Danny Silk

Every problem must find it's owner before we can ever offer a solution — Danny Silk

Each believer comes to understand his or her significance in relationship to the whole Body, and the conviction begins to take hold: "I carry something that no one else carries. I must develop and release my gifts into the Church and the world and do my part in bringing Heaven to earth." Honor empowers people. — Danny Silk

In being vulnerable, we reach for our greatest need while risking our greatest pain. — Danny Silk

The more others encounter us honoring the boundaries we have set for our lives, the more they will know that they can trust us with their lives. — Danny Silk

If we don't know how to deal with sin then we don't know how to deal with people. — Danny Silk

It's my job to manage my heart so that I can respond to you in love and cast out fear in our relationship. — Danny Silk

The difference between punishment and discipline is a powerful child. — Danny Silk

You have to embark on your own quest to discover why you are on this planet, what makes you get out of bed in the morning, and what you uniquely contribute to the world. — Danny Silk

In a respectful relationship, each person understands, "I am responsible to know what is going on inside me and communicate it to you. I do not expect you to know it, nor will I allow you to assume that you know it. And I will not make assumptions about what is going on inside you. — Danny Silk

If you were blessed to have parents who taught you to be responsible for your choices, then you should go home and thank them. — Danny Silk

I choose you." This is the foundation of true, lasting relationships. It is the foundation for God's relationship with you. As Jesus declared to His disciples, "You did not choose Me, but I chose you..." 1 Jesus chose you in the most difficult of circumstances. He chose you while you were in sin, while you were His enemy. His side of the relationship with you does not depend upon your choice, but entirely upon His choice. The question is whether or not you will learn to build your relationships with Him and others upon the foundation of your choice. — Danny Silk

Marriage isn't just a choice. It's choosing the same person a million times. — Danny Silk

Powerful people can love without being loved back. — Danny Silk

The key ingredient that is missing is a government that will protect the priorities of Heaven and the presence of God in our land. — Danny Silk

The First Goal of Conversation: Understanding, not Agreement — Danny Silk

In order for us to practice self-control, we must have a goal. We must have something we are saying "yes" to, which necessarily comes with things that we must say "no" to. We use self-control to maneuver ourselves toward this "yes." This goal must be entirely our own. The minute another person is choosing and managing our goals for us, we have left self-control behind. — Danny Silk