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.

It is to be kept in mind that the generations of men do not wait for the convenience of the church in respect to their evangelization. Men are born and die whether or not Christians are ready to give them the Gospel. And hence, if the church of any generation does not evangelize the heathen of that generation, those heathen will never be evangelized at all. It is always true in the work of evangelization that the present can never anticipate the future, and that the future can never replace the past. What is to be done in soul saving must be done by that generation.

One reason why people are unable to understand great Christian classics is that they are trying to understand without any intention of obeying them.

True leaders must be willing to suffer for the sake of objectives great enough to demand their wholehearted obedience.

An exhausted man easily falls prey to the adversary.

Our sense of humor is a gift from God which should be controlled as well as cultivated.

If a man is known by the company he keeps, so also his character is reflected in the books he reads.