79 Quotes by J. Oswald Sanders

Time lost can never be retrieved. Time cannot be hoarded, only spent well.

Surely Paul’s moral and spiritual greatness is all the more evident the more he is studied and analyzed. It is sheer irony and miracle that God would select one of the most aggressive opponents of the early Christian movement and make him into its most outstanding leader.

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.

We are not responsible for our endowments or natural abilities, but we are responsible for the strategic use of time.

Faith never knows where it is being led, or it would not be faith. True faith is content to travel under sealed orders.

When God lays a burden on our hearts and thus keeps us praying, He obviously intends to grant the answer.

To be a leader in the Church has always required strength and faith beyond the merely human.

There is no conceivable situation in which it is not safe to trust God.

Our sense of humor is a gift from God that should be controlled as well as cultivated. Clean, wholesome humor will relax tension and relieve difficult situations. Leaders can use it to displace tension with a sense of normal.