Quotes from J. Oswald Sanders

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

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

Jesus was the meeting place of eternity and time, the blending of deity and humanity, the junction of heaven and earth.

Sacrifice is the ecstasy of giving the best we have to the One we love most.

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

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

Each of us is as full of the Spirit as we really want to be.

Tact is the ability to deal with people sensitively, to avoid giving offense, to have a "feel" for the proper words or responses to a delicate situation.

If a man is known by the company he keeps, so also his character is reflected in the books he reads.

We should always aim to read something different=not only the writers with whom we agree, but those with whom we are ready to do battle. Their point of view challenges us to examine the truth and to test their views...and let us not comment on nor criticize writers of whom we have heard only second-hand, or third-hand without troubling to read their works for ourselves...Don't be afraid of new ideas.

The person who sees the difficulties so clearly that he does not discern the possibilities cannot inspire a vision in others.

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.