"We should always aim to read something different=not……" — J. Oswald Sanders
"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."
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39 Quotes by J. Oswald Sanders
J. Oswald Sanders has 39 quotes on this site.
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To be a leader in the Church has always required strength and faith beyond the merely human.
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God is always at work, though we cannot see it, preparing people he has chosen for leadership. When the crisis…
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I have seen the face of Jesus, Tell me not of aught beside, I have heard the voice of Jesus,…
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Sacrifice is the ecstasy of giving the best we have to the One we love most.
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The secular mind and heart, however gifted and personally charming, has no place in the leadership of the church.
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If a Christian is not willing to rise early and work late, to expend greater effort in diligent study and…
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Eyes that look are common; eyes that see are rare.
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When God lays a burden on our hearts and thus keeps us praying, He obviously intends to grant the answer.
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