79 Quotes by J. Oswald Sanders

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.

The secular mind and heart, however gifted and personally charming, has no place in the leadership of the church.

Jesus drank a cup of wrath without mercy, that we might drink a cup of mercy without wrath.

Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have ofttimes no connection. Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men: Wisdom, in minds attentive to their own. Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much, Wisdom is humble, that he knows no more.

True greatness, true leadership, is achieved not by reducing men to one’s service but in giving oneself in selfless service to them.

A natural leader by any measure, Paul became a great spiritual leader when his heart and mind were captured by Jesus Christ.

Fatigue is the price of leadership. Mediocrity is the price of never getting tired.

The person who is impatient with weakness will be ineffective in his leadership. The evidence of our strength lies not in the distance that separates us from other runners but in our closure with them, our slower pace for their sakes, our helping them pick it up and cross the line.

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.