We are at this moment as close to God as we really choose to be. True, there are times when we would like to know a deeper intimacy, but when it comes to the point, we are not prepared to pay the price involved.

The secular mind and heart, however gifted and personally charming, has no place in the leadership of the church.

Sacrifice is the ecstasy of giving the best we have to the One we love most.

The man of leadership caliber will work while others waste time, study while others sleep, pray while others play. There will be no place for loose or lazy habits in word or thought, deed or dress. He will observe a soldierly discipline, diet and deportment, so that he may wage a good warfare.

A great deal more failure is the result of an excess of caution than of bold experimentation with new ideas. The frontiers of the Kingdom of God were never advanced by men and women of caution.

A visionary may see, but a leader must decide.

If you would rather pick a fight than solve a problem, do not consider leading the church