J. Oswald Sanders Quotes

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• If we are meticulously careful with the use of the days, the years will take care of themselves.
• There is no such thing as a self made spiritual leader. He is able to influence others spiritually only because the Spirit is able to…
• 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…
• To be a leader in the Church has always required strength and faith beyond the merely human.
• God is always at work, though we cannot see it, preparing people he has chosen for leadership. When the crisis comes, God fits His appointee…
• I have seen the face of Jesus, Â Â Â Â Â Tell me not of aught beside, I have heard the voice of Jesus,…
• Sacrifice is the ecstasy of giving the best we have to the One we love most.
• The secular mind and heart, however gifted and personally charming, has no place in the leadership of the church.
• If a Christian is not willing to rise early and work late, to expend greater effort in diligent study and faithful work, that person will…
• Eyes that look are common; eyes that see are rare.
• When God lays a burden on our hearts and thus keeps us praying, He obviously intends to grant the answer.
• Before we can conquer the world, we must first conquer the self.
• We are at this moment as close to God as we really choose to be. True, there are times when we would like to know…
• Fatigue is the price of leadership. Mediocrity is the price of never getting tired.
• Each of us is as full of the Spirit as we really want to be.
• True leaders must be willing to suffer for the sake of objectives great enough to demand their wholehearted obedience.
• There is no conceivable situation in which it is not safe to trust God.
• 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…
• It is to be kept in mind that the generations of men do not wait for the convenience of the church in respect to their…

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