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.

Vision involves optimism and hope. The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty. The pessimist tends to hold back people of vision from pushing ahead.

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 not change a generation. Fatigue is the price of leadership. Mediocrity is the result of never getting tired.

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

Disciples [deep people] are not manufactured wholesale. They are produced one by one, because someone has taken the pains to discipline, to instruct and enlighten, to nurture and train one that is younger.

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

People of vision gauge decisions on the future; the story of the past cannot be rewritten.