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.

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

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.

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.

Each of us is as full of the Spirit as we really want to be.

Faith never knows where it is being led, or it would not be faith. True faith is content to travel under sealed orders.

Pride takes many forms, but spiritual pride is the most grievous. To become proud of spiritual gifts or leadership position is to forget that all we have is from God, all the position we occupy is God's appointment.