“The leader who intends to grow spiritually and intellectually will be reading constantly.” — J Oswald Sanders Copy Share Image
“The person who is impatient with weakness will be ineffective in his leadership.” — J Oswald Sanders Copy Share Image
“The leader cannot spend time on secondary matters while essential obligations scream for attention. A day needs careful planning.” — J Oswald Sanders Copy Share Image
“Leaders should determine to spend a minimum of half an hour a day reading books that feed the soul and stimulate the… — J Oswald Sanders Copy Share Image
“Lazy and disorganized people never rise to true leadership. Many who aspire to leadership fail because they have never learned to follow.” — J Oswald Sanders Copy Share Image
“The quality of a person’s leadership will be in part measured by time: its use and its passage.” — J Oswald Sanders Copy Share Image
“Surely the spiritual leader must be sincere in promise, faithful in discharge of duty, upright in finances, loyal in service, and honest… — J Oswald Sanders Copy Share Image
“Selecting leaders apart from spiritual qualifications leads always to unspiritual administration.” — J Oswald Sanders Copy Share Image
“When we lead by persuasion rather than command, patience is essential. Leaders rightly cultivate the art of persuasion that allows maximum individual… — J Oswald Sanders Copy Share Image
“The filling of the Spirit is essential for spiritual leadership. And each believer has as much of the Spirit’s presence as he… — J Oswald Sanders Copy Share Image
“To get at the root of problems, a leader must develop into a skillful listener. Too many strong personalities are compulsive talkers.… — J Oswald Sanders Copy Share Image
“To be filled with the Spirit is to be controlled by the Spirit. The Christian leader’s mind, emotions, will, and physical strength… — J Oswald Sanders Copy Share Image
“Every Christian is obliged to be the best for God. Like any other worthwhile activity, if leadership can be improved, we should… — J Oswald Sanders Copy Share Image
“Not every Christian is called to major leadership in the church, but every Christian is a leader, for we all influence others.… — J Oswald Sanders Copy Share Image
“The young man of leadership caliber will work while others waste time, study while others snooze, pray while others daydream. Slothful habits… — J Oswald Sanders Copy Share Image
“A leader shows patience by not running too far ahead of his followers and thus discouraging them. While keeping ahead, he stays… — J Oswald Sanders Copy Share Image
“Romans 12:1 issues this imperative to leaders: “Offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God.” The Greek aorist tense… — J Oswald Sanders Copy Share Image
“Diplomacy is the ability to manage delicate situations, especially involving people from different cultures, and certainly from differing opinions. Leaders need to… — J Oswald Sanders Copy Share Image
“The first steps toward improvement involve recognizing weaknesses, making corrections, and cultivating strengths. Many reasons explain why church leadership is less than… — J Oswald Sanders Copy Share Image
“Spiritual leadership requires Spirit-filled people. Other qualities are important; to be Spirit-filled is indispensable.” — J Oswald Sanders Copy Share Image
“The power of inspiring others to service and sacrifice will mark God’s leader.” — J Oswald Sanders Copy Share Image
“As Jesus dealt with sin’s cause rather than effect, so the spiritual leader should adopt the same method in prayer.” — J Oswald Sanders Copy Share Image
“Can this be right? An angry leader? Indeed, Jesus had this quality, and when we use it rightly, we follow Him.” — J Oswald Sanders Copy Share Image
“I have never met leadership without a sense of humor; this ability to stand outside oneself and one’s circumstances, to see things… — J Oswald Sanders Copy Share Image
“After a half century of ministry, F. J. Hallett claimed that in the actual work of a parish, the most successful leader… — J Oswald Sanders Copy Share Image
“Pursuing the goal, the leader never looks back or calculates escape strategies if plans turn sour. Nor does a true leader cast… — J Oswald Sanders Copy Share Image
“A leader needs a balanced approach to time lest it become his bondage and downfall. Without a grip on time, the leader… — J Oswald Sanders Copy Share Image
“God will not cooperate with prayers of mere self-interest, or prayers that come from impure motives.” — J Oswald Sanders Copy Share Image
“Lazy and disorganized people never rise to true leadership. Many who aspire to leadership fail because they have never learned to follow.” — J Oswald Sanders Copy Share Image
“The young man of leadership caliber will work while others waste time, study while others snooze, pray while others daydream. Slothful habits are overcome,… — J Oswald Sanders Copy Share Image
“To be filled with the Spirit is to be controlled by the Spirit. The Christian leader’s mind, emotions, will, and physical strength all become… — J Oswald Sanders Copy Share Image
“A good test of the appropriateness of a joke is whether the humor controls us or we control it.” — J Oswald Sanders Copy Share Image
“He moved through life with measured steps, never hurried, though always surrounded by demands and crowds.” — J Oswald Sanders Copy Share Image
“The person who is impatient with weakness will be ineffective in his leadership.” — J Oswald Sanders Copy Share Image
“Indeed, if we read merely to stock our head with ideas, to feel superior to others, or to appear learned, then our reading is… — J Oswald Sanders Copy Share Image
“tact is the ability to deal with people sensitively, to avoid giving offense, to have a “feel” for the proper words or responses to… — J Oswald Sanders Copy Share Image
“When we lead by persuasion rather than command, patience is essential. Leaders rightly cultivate the art of persuasion that allows maximum individual decision making… — J Oswald Sanders Copy Share Image
“The quality of a person’s leadership will be in part measured by time: its use and its passage.” — J Oswald Sanders Copy Share Image
“Paul admitted to knowing fear, but it never stopped him. “I came to you in weakness and fear, and with much trembling,” he reported… — J Oswald Sanders Copy Share Image
