Top 40 Gary Rohrmayer Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Change leads to growth. Resistance leads to rigidity. Rigidity leads to...”

— Gary Rohrmayer

2. “Great leaders are teachable leaders.”

— Gary Rohrmayer

3. “Leaders are passionate learners. Leaders are always seeking ways to improve themselves by sharpening their skills. They fully embrace the fact that growing leaders lead growing organizations.”

— Gary Rohrmayer

4. “Every leader will hit a series of plateaus in their lives. The key is not to say there, because settling on a plateau can easily lead to an elongated season of comfort. Being comfortable is one of the leader’s worst enemies.”

— Gary Rohrmayer

5. “You cannot control the way people treat you, but you can control how you respond to their treatment.”

— Gary Rohrmayer

6. “Fasting is more about replacing than it is about abstaining – replacing normal activities with focused times of prayer and feeding on the Word of God.”

— Gary Rohrmayer

7. “Coachable leaders are ready and willing to make the needed changes and adjustments in their lives.”

— Gary Rohrmayer

8. “Coachable people seek out those who speak truth to them, even if it is a painful truth, because it protects them and it makes them a better person and leader.”

— Gary Rohrmayer

9. “Fasting is an act of humility that spotlights our weaknesses and reveals dependence on things rather than on God.”

— Gary Rohrmayer

10. “Fasting is more about longing for the power and presence of Jesus than restricting our appetites.”

— Gary Rohrmayer

11. “Honesty and contentment are the pathways that lead to a life of integrity and generosity.”

— Gary Rohrmayer

12. “If a church is good at making disciples it will be good at making leaders because in the end, a good spiritual formation plan will lead to an accelerated spiritual multiplication.”

— Gary Rohrmayer

13. “Forgiveness and restoration are two difference acts. Forgiveness can lead to restoration but restoration is not hinged to forgiveness.”

— Gary Rohrmayer

14. “Sexual temptations are lurking around every corner in our lives today! Resisting the temptation to gratify the flesh is a full-time job.”

— Gary Rohrmayer

15. “Dangerous prayers are risky and life-stretching. Dangerous prayers come out of a spirit of brokenness. Dangerous prayers are filled with boldness and daring faith.”

— Gary Rohrmayer

16. “Even Satan can quote scripture out of context why are we surprised when men do it.”

— Gary Rohrmayer

17. “God is so much bigger than our ‘what ifs’ that he can turn them into ’why nots.”

— Gary Rohrmayer

18. “Suspicion is like a cankerworm that slowly eats away at relationships.”

— Gary Rohrmayer

19. “My most dangerous prayers have come in moments of deep frustration and seasons of brokenness.”

— Gary Rohrmayer

20. “Fasting turns each moment of craving into a prayer of intense dependence.”

— Gary Rohrmayer

21. “Lordship and rapport are the keys to save us from being combative and make us more attractive in spiritual conversations.”

— Gary Rohrmayer

22. “Rest and comfort are two different things. Rest is a planned temporary time to refresh and refocus the leader. Comfort is when you settle into unproductive routines and accept satisfactory or unsatisfactory results.”

— Gary Rohrmayer

23. “The rewards of fasting ultimately lead to a more intimate and satisfying experience with the God who made me.”

— Gary Rohrmayer

24. “Our God is in the soul-shaping business. But transformation will only come through a heart that is surrendered to the Father’s love and the Potter’s touch.”

— Gary Rohrmayer

25. “Missional leaders understand the power of connecting relationally in their community through personal networking.”

— Gary Rohrmayer

26. “Leaders live by reality and not by assumptions!”

— Gary Rohrmayer

27. “Fasting is not an option but an assumed practice for the serious-minded follower of Jesus.”

— Gary Rohrmayer

28. “Missional leaders not only feel the burden of God’s mission but they also act on the burden and act upon it sacrificially. Leading a missional church is not for the faint of heart. It takes courage to push yourself beyond your comfort zone and to lead the church beyond it personal limits. Brokenness, inner turmoil and sacrifice will always be part of the missional leader’s life.”

— Gary Rohrmayer

29. “Intimacy with God is not experienced through monolog prayers but through reflective listening as well as earnest petitioning.”

— Gary Rohrmayer

30. “Missional leaders are comfortable in the own skin.”

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31. “Every time I have fasted I have found my worship experience sweeter, the illumination of God’s Spirit brighter and the hunger for God’s Word stronger.”

— Gary Rohrmayer

32. “If evangelism is really going to be a value that your church embraces, the church will have to embrace the changes that will take place when evangelism is activated in the church.”

— Gary Rohrmayer

33. “God makes his gospel attractive through his people.”

— Gary Rohrmayer

34. “Missional leaders not only feel the burden of God’s mission but they also act on the burden and act upon it sacrificially.”

— Gary Rohrmayer

35. “Greed is the unhealthy preoccupation for money or power. It is when your heart becomes morbidly obsessed with something good, such as a stock, that it produces harmful results. Greed is not a financial issue but it’s an issue of the heart.”

— Gary Rohrmayer

36. “A leaders gentle reaction and sound instruction are their greatest weapons.”

— Gary Rohrmayer

37. “A hardness to change reveals a hardness of heart.”

— Gary Rohrmayer

38. “God’s discipline has nothing to do with rejection but more to do with refinement.”

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39. “Fasting is a discipline that should be a holy habit.”

— Gary Rohrmayer

40. “Remember all missional advancement always engages missional resistance.”

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41. “There is nothing so unattractive as a whiny person. We can have empathy for a person in deep emotional pain. But a whiny person who gets overwhelmed with perceived unfairness and acts like a two-year-old child who did not get his or her way – well, it can be difficult to relate to that person.”

— Gary Rohrmayer

42. “The mission that Jesus invites us to participate in is primarily a relational one in nature. Our ability to sustain our relationship in a meaningful way will have a direct impact on our missional fruitfulness.”

— Gary Rohrmayer