J. Oswald Sanders Quotes
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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.
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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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Ambition that centers on the glory of God and welfare of the church is a mighty force for good.
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Sacrifice is the ecstasy of giving the best we have to the One we love most.
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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.
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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.
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We can lead others only as far along the road as we ourselves have traveled. merely pointing the way is not enough. If we are not walking, then no one can be following, and ware not leading anyone.
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True leadership is found in giving yourself in service to others, not in coaxing or inducing others to serve you.
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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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True leaders must be willing to suffer for the sake of objectives great enough to demand their wholehearted obedience.
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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.
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An exhausted man easily falls prey to the adversary.
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There is no conceivable situation in which it is not safe to trust God.
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There is no such thing as a self made spiritual leader. He is able to influence others spiritually only because the Spirit is able to work in and through him to a greater degree than in those he leads.
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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.
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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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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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Faith enables the believing soul to treat the future as present and the invisible as seen.
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A visionary may see, but a leader must decide.
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Spiritual leadership is the power to change the atmosphere by one's presence, the unconscious influence that makes Christ and spiritual things real to others.
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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.
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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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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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Fatigue is the price of leadership. Mediocrity is the price of never getting tired.
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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 person who sees the difficulties so clearly that he does not discern the possibilities cannot inspire a vision in others.
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Before we can conquer the world, we must first conquer the self.
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