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.

The spiritual leader should outpace the rest of the church, above all, in prayer.

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

The secular mind and heart, however gifted and personally charming, has no place in the leadership of the church.

A leader is a person who has learned to obey a discipline imposed from without, and has then taken on a more rigorous discipline from within. Those who rebel against authority and scorn self-discipline - who shirk the rigors and turn from the sacrifices - do not qualify to lead.

The frontiers of the kingdom of God were never advanced by men and women of caution.

Spiritual leadership is the power to change the atmosphere by one's presence, the unconscious influence that makes Christ and spiritual things real to others.