J. Oswald Sanders
It is impossible for a believer, no matter what his experience, to keep right with God if he will not take the trouble to spend time with God. Spend plenty of time with him; let other things go, but don't neglect Him.Collection: God
Jesus drank a cup of wrath without mercy, that we might drink a cup of mercy without wrath.Collection: Jesus
Faith never knows where it is being led, or it would not be faith. True faith is content to travel under sealed orders.Collection: Order
Once the joy of intimacy with God has been experienced, life becomes unbearable without it.Collection: Joy
The man of leadership caliber will work while others waste time, study while others sleep, pray while others play. There will be no place for loose or lazy habits in word or thought, deed or dress. He will observe a soldierly discipline, diet and deportment, so that he may wage a good warfare.Collection: Sleep
When God lays a burden on our hearts and thus keeps us praying, He obviously intends to grant the answer.Collection: Heart
True greatness,true leadership,is found in giving yourself in service to others, not in coaxing or inducing others to serve you. True service is never without cost. Often it comes with a painful baptism of suffering. But the true spiritual leader is focused on the service he and she can render to God and other people, not on the residuals and perks of high office or holy title. We must aim to put more into life than we take out.Collection: Spiritual
The frontiers of the kingdom of God were never advanced by men and women of caution.Collection: Courage
Faith enables the believing soul to treat the future as present and the invisible as seen.Collection: Christian
We are at this moment as close to God as we really choose to be. True, there are times when we would like to know a deeper intimacy, but when it comes to the point, we are not prepared to pay the price involved.Collection: Pay The Price
It is obvious that Paul did not regard prayer as supplemental, but as fundamental-not something to be added to his work but the very matrix out of which his work was born. He was a man of action because he was a man of prayer. It was probably his prayer even more than his preaching that produced the kind of leaders we meet in his letters.Collection: Prayer
True leadership is found in giving yourself in service to others, not in coaxing or inducing others to serve you.Collection: Leadership
Eyes that look are common; eyes that see are rare.Collection: Eye
There is no conceivable situation in which it is not safe to trust God.Collection: Safe
If a Christian is not willing to rise early and work late, to expend greater effort in diligent study and faithful work, that person will not change a generation. Fatigue is the price of leadership. Mediocrity is the result of never getting tired.Collection: Leadership
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.Collection: Leadership
Pride takes many forms, but spiritual pride is the most grievous. To become proud of spiritual gifts or leadership position is to forget that all we have is from God, all the position we occupy is God's appointment.Collection: Leadership
Disciples [deep people] are not manufactured wholesale. They are produced one by one, because someone has taken the pains to discipline, to instruct and enlighten, to nurture and train one that is younger.Collection: Pain
Before we can conquer the world, we must first conquer the self.Collection: Self
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.Collection: Christian
If we are meticulously careful with the use of the days, the years will take care of themselves.Collection: Inspiration
Vision involves optimism and hope. The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty. The pessimist tends to hold back people of vision from pushing ahead.Collection: Leadership
Desiring to excel is not a sin. It is motivation that determines ambition's character. Our Lord never taught against the urge to high achievement, but He did expose and condemn unworthy motivation.Collection: Leadership
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.Collection: Leadership
If you would rather pick a fight than solve a problem, do not consider leading the churchCollection: Fighting
One reason why people are unable to understand great Christian classics is that they are trying to understand without any intention of obeying them.Collection: Leadership
Leaders who want to show sensitivity should listen often and long and talk short and seldom. Many so-called leaders are too busy to listen. True leaders know that time spent listening is well invested.Collection: Leadership
Fatigue is the price of leadership. Mediocrity is the price of never getting tired.Collection: Tired
The secular mind and heart, however gifted and personally charming, has no place in the leadership of the church.Collection: Heart
Jesus was the meeting place of eternity and time, the blending of deity and humanity, the junction of heaven and earth.Collection: Jesus
We are not responsible for our endowments or natural abilities, but we are responsible for the strategic use of time.Collection: Leadership
If Jesus is not God, then there is no Christianity, and we who worship Him are nothing more than idolaters. Conversely, if He is God, those who say He was merely a good man, or even the best of men, are blasphemers. More serious still, if He is not God, then He is a blasphemer in the fullest sense of the word. If He is not God, He is not even good.Collection: Jesus
Are you responsibly optimistic? Pessimism and leadership do not mix. Leaders are positively visionary.Collection: Optimistic
A visionary may see, but a leader must decide.Collection: Leader
It is very possible to be proud of the spiritual gifts God has entrusted to us and to strut about ostentatiously, forgetting that we have nothing which we have not received, that grace is a gift, an undeserved favor. We can actually be filled with pride at the eloquence and brilliance of our sermon on humility.Collection: Spiritual
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.Collection: Leadership
An exhausted man easily falls prey to the adversary.Collection: Fall
Will the leader reflect the ugliness of egotism or the transfigured glory of Christ the Lord?Collection: Leadership
The original meaning of the word tact referred to the sense of touch (as in 'tactile'), and came to mean skill in dealing with persons or sensitive situations. Tact is defined as: 'intuitive perception, especially a quick and fine perception of what is fit and proper and right.' It alludes to one's ability to conduct delicate negotiations and personal matters in a way that recognizes mutual rights, and yet leads to a harmonious solution.Collection: Mean
I have seen the face of Jesus, Tell me not of aught beside, I have heard the voice of Jesus, All my soul is satisfied. All around is earthly splendour Earthly scenes lie fair and bright. But mine eyes no longer see them, For the glory of that light. Light that knows no cloud, no waning, Light wherein I see His face, All His love’s uncounted treasures, All the riches of His grace.Collection: Jesus
God prepares leaders with a specific place and task in mind. Training methods are adapted to the mission, and natural and spiritual gifts are given with clear purpose.Collection: Leadership
People of vision gauge decisions on the future; the story of the past cannot be rewritten.Collection: Leadership
Often truly authoritative leadership falls on someone who years earlier dedicated themselves to practice the discipline of seeking first the kingdom of God. Then, as that person matures, God confers a leadership role, and the Spirit of God goes to work through him.Collection: Fall
A leader is a person who has learned to obey a discipline imposed from without, and has then taken on a more rigorous discipline from within. Those who rebel against authority and scorn self-discipline - who shirk the rigors and turn from the sacrifices - do not qualify to lead.Collection: Leadership
Our sense of humor is a gift from God which should be controlled as well as cultivated.Collection: Sense Of Humor
The kings of terrors, the last enemy, will never be able to breach the pearly gates and disturb the bliss of heaven! No more deathbed vigils or funerals. The hearse will have made its last journey.Collection: Kings
It is conceivable that God might have ordained to preach the Gospel directly to man through dreams, visions and revelations. But as a matter of fact, He has not done this; but rather has committed the preaching to man, telling them to go and disciple all nations. The responsibility lies squarely on our shoulders.Collection: Dream
Spirituality is not easy to define, but you can tell when it is present. It is the fragrance of the garden of the Lord, the power to change the atmosphere around you, the influence that makes Christ real to others.Collection: Real
True greatness, true leadership, is achieved not by reducing men to one's service but in giving oneself in selfless service to them.Collection: Greatness
Ambition that centers on the glory of God and welfare of the church is a mighty force for good.Collection: Ambition