CONVICTION
If you don’t make up your mind, your unmade mind will unmake you.
—E. Stanley Jones
The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.
—Herbert Agar
It ain’t so much what folks don’t know,
It’s that they know so much that just ain’t so.
—Josh Billings
COURAGE
True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever the cost.
—Tennis star Arthur Ashe
Courage is being scared to death but saddling up anyway.
—John Wayne
Courage! I have shown it for years; think you I shall lose it at the moment when my sufferings are to end?
—Marie Antoinette, moments before her death
HONESTY
The most common lie is the lie one tells to oneself.
—Friedrich Nietzsche
The man who is brutally honest enjoys the brutality quite as much as the honesty. Possibly more.
—Richard J. Needham
LEADERSHIP
The Christian who is ambitious to be a star disqualifies himself as a leader.
—David Watson
A leader is a person with a magnet in his heart and a compass in his head.
—Vance Havner
LIFESTYLE
If God does not enter your kitchen, there is something wrong with your kitchen. If you can’t take God into your recreation, there is something wrong with your play. We all believe in the God of the heroic. What we need most these days is the God of the humdrum, the commonplace, the everyday.
—Peter Marshall, Sr.
Our calling and purpose as followers of Christ is to love God completely, to love self correctly, and to love others compassionately.
—Kenneth Boa
MATERIALISM
Any problem that can be solved with money isn’t a problem. It’s an expense.
—Anonymous
The essence of life today is not having—it is having to have.
—David Hansen
Most of us would be willing to pay as we go if we could just finish paying for where we’ve been.
—Ann Landers
The main emotion of the adult American who has had all the advantages of wealth, education, and culture is disappointment.
—John Cheever
REPENTANCE
One thief on the cross was saved, that none should despair; and only one, that none should presume.
—J.C. Ryle
If there are a thousand steps between us and God, he will take all but one. He will leave the final one for us. The choice is ours.
—Max Lucado
The man who knows his sins is greater than one who raises a dead man by his prayer.
—Isaac the Syrian
1996 Christianity Today/LEADERSHIP Journal
