Desiring to excel is not a sin. It is motivation that determines ambition's character. Our Lord never taught against the urge to high achievement, but He did expose and condemn unworthy motivation.

It is obvious that Paul did not regard prayer as supplemental, but as fundamental-not something to be added to his work but the very matrix out of which his work was born. He was a man of action because he was a man of prayer. It was probably his prayer even more than his preaching that produced the kind of leaders we meet in his letters.

Leadership is the ability to recognize the special abilities and limitations of others, combined with the capacity to fit each one into the job where he will do his best.

Once the joy of intimacy with God has been experienced, life becomes unbearable without it.

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

A visionary may see, but a leader must decide.

There is no conceivable situation in which it is not safe to trust God.