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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

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