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

A visionary may see, but a leader must decide.

A leader is only able to lead others because he disciplines himself. The person who does not know how to bow to discipline imposed from without, who does not know how to obey, will not make a good leader-nor will the one who has not learned to impose discipline within his own life. Those who scorn scripturally or legally constituted authority, or rebel against it, rarely qualify for high leadership positions.

True leadership is found in giving yourself in service to others, not in coaxing or inducing others to serve you.

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.

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

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.