Jesus drank a cup of wrath without mercy, that we might drink a cup of mercy without wrath.

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

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

When God lays a burden on our hearts and thus keeps us praying, He obviously intends to grant the answer.

It is very possible to be proud of the spiritual gifts God has entrusted to us and to strut about ostentatiously, forgetting that we have nothing which we have not received, that grace is a gift, an undeserved favor. We can actually be filled with pride at the eloquence and brilliance of our sermon on humility.

The final estimate of men shows that history cares not an iota for the rank or title a man has borne, or the office he has held, but only the quality of his deeds and the character of his mind and heart.

Leaders who want to show sensitivity should listen often and long and talk short and seldom. Many so-called leaders are too busy to listen. True leaders know that time spent listening is well invested.