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Our Lord never taught against the urge to high achievement, but He did expose and condemn unworthy motivation.
— J. Oswald Sanders
Vision involves optimism and hope. The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty.
— J. Oswald Sanders
Before we can conquer the world, we must first conquer the self.
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Faith enables the believing soul to treat the future as present and the invisible as seen.
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Our consciences are not infallible, and they can become warped or weakened if not kept aligned by the infallible Word of God.
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Serving and suffering are paired in the teaching and life of our Lord. One does not come without the other. And what servant is greater than The Lord?
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True greatness, true leadership, is found in giving yourself in service to others, not in coaxing or inducing others to serve you.
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James and John wanted the glory, but not the cup of shame; the crown, but not the cross; the role of master, but not servant.
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Blunders are the inevitable price of training leaders. At
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When God lays a burden on our hearts and thus keeps us praying, He obviously intends to grant the answer.
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Eyes that look are common; eyes that see are rare.
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If those who hold influence over others fail to lead toward the spiritual uplands, then surely the path to the lowlands will be well worn.
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Often the crowd does not recognize a leader until he has gone, and then they build a monument for him with the stones they threw at him in life.
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Most men are notable for one conspicuous virtue or grace - Moses for meekness, Job for patience, John for love. But, in Jesus you find everything.
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The frontiers of the kingdom of God were never advanced by men and women of caution.
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The secular mind and heart, however gifted and personally charming, has no place in the leadership of the church.
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The spiritual leader will choose the hidden path of sacrificial service and approval of the Lord over the flamboyant self-advertising of the world.
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A visionary may see, but a leader must decide.
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True greatness, true leadership, is achieved not by reducing men to one's service but in giving oneself in selfless service to them.
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God has His own training methods, and it is usually true that His way up first leads down, for the mountain is only as high as the valley is deep.
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To be a leader in the Church has always required strength and faith beyond the merely human.
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Will the leader reflect the ugliness of egotism or the transfigured glory of Christ the Lord?
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The spiritual leader should outpace the rest of the church, above all, in prayer.
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Each of us is as full of the Spirit as we really want to be.
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No leader lives a day without criticism, and humility will never be more on trial than when criticism comes.
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Fatigue is the price of leadership. Mediocrity is the price of never getting tired.
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An exhausted man easily falls prey to the adversary.
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(Exodus 4:14). Let us not pass the buck of leadership because we think ourselves incapable.
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Time lost can never be retrieved. Time cannot be hoarded, only spent well.
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Our problem is not too little time, but making better use of the time we have. Each of us has as much time as anyone else.
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Jesus was the meeting place of eternity and time, the blending of deity and humanity, the junction of heaven and earth.
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Are you responsibly optimistic? Pessimism and leadership do not mix. Leaders are positively visionary.
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Ambition that centers on the glory of God and welfare of the church is a mighty force for good.
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There is no conceivable situation in which it is not safe to trust God.
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The person who sees the difficulties so clearly that he does not discern the possibilities cannot inspire a vision in others.
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Jesus drank a cup of wrath without mercy, that we might drink a cup of mercy without wrath.
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Not every man can carry a full cup. Sudden elevation frequently leads to pride and a fall. The most exacting test of all to survive is prosperity.
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One reason why people are unable to understand great Christian classics is that they are trying to understand without any intention of obeying them.
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Leaders must draw the best out of people, and friendship does that far better than prolonged argument or mere logic.
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The Christian leader who seeks an example to follow does well to turn to the life of Jesus Himself.
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True leaders must be willing to suffer for the sake of objectives great enough to demand their wholehearted obedience.
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We are not responsible for our endowments or natural abilities, but we are responsible for the strategic use of time.
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Prayer is indeed the Christian's vital breath and native air.
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Our sense of humor is a gift from God which should be controlled as well as cultivated.
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If a man is known by the company he keeps, so also his character is reflected in the books he reads.
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If you would rather pick a fight than solve a problem, do not consider leading the church
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People of vision gauge decisions on the future; the story of the past cannot be rewritten.
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Once the joy of intimacy with God has been experienced, life becomes unbearable without it.
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Sacrifice is the ecstasy of giving the best we have to the One we love most.
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