79 Quotes by J. Oswald Sanders

Faith enables the believing soul to treat the future as present and the invisible as seen.

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.

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.

People of vision gauge decisions on the future; the story of the past cannot be rewritten.

A great deal more failure is the result of an excess of caution than of bold experimentation with new ideas. The frontiers of the Kingdom of God were never advanced by men and women of caution.

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.

The spiritual leader will not procrastinate when faced with a decision, nor vacillate after making it. A sincere but faulty decision is better than weak-willed “trial balloons” or indecisive overtures. To postpone decision is really to decide for the status quo. In most decisions the key element is not so much knowing what to do but in living with the results.

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.

The frontiers of the kingdom of God were never advanced by men and women of caution.