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Leadership -- Wise Sayings About Leadership
How can we know anything about anythingTo try to explain truth to him who loves it not is but to give him more plentiful material for misinterpretation. George Macdonald Do we have to make a choice between science and the Bible? NO! That is NOT where the problem is, but that is what everyone seems to want to talk about. Take science as an example. How can we know anything about the created material world around us? How can we know anything from what we can see using natural sciences? We all see the same things in the material world, but we don't come to the same answers. Why is that? How can we know anything about the Bible and what it teaches? Every person believes different things about the Bible and how it should be read. Why is that? Same scientific facts. Different answers. Same Bible. Different answers. Why is that? The true question is this: How do we come to our answers that we get from what we can see through science or what we can read in the Bible? How do we think about what we see using science or what we read in the Bible? How do we analyze what we have seen and read? How do we interpret what we have seen and read? We use logic, but logic always has a foundation. Jesus talked about building on the Rock. That Rock is Jesus Christ. He is the true foundation. There are also the false foundations of the ungodly. An example might help. Question: Why do believe in evolution? Answer: Because my science teacher told me that evolution is scientific fact. Question: Why do you believe your science teacher? Answer: because he agrees with the textbook he assigned us to read. Now, we have asked, "Why?" twice. If we continued to ask, "Why?" we would come down to the foundation of this person's thoughts. When we get down to the foundations, there are no more questions that can be answered. So where to the foundations come from? There are three possibilities.
Question: Why do believe in creation? Answer: Because God revealed this to me. He spoke to me through the Bible and gave me His faith so that I could believe Him. See how quickly we got to the foundation. This is a belief that has a foundation that is solid and that cannot be moved. In reality, the things that we make up, that are pulled from the air, are actually from demons and all the lies of demons spring from the prince of demons, Satan. So these are one and the same. Divine revelation comes from the Almighty, Creator, God, Jesus Christ. So there are only two choices, but how do we know there are only two choices? Because God has revealed this truth to us. The question then is how do we tell the difference between the revelation that comes from God and the lies of Satan? The answer is that everyone who sincerely wants to do the will of God will know. Jesus said, "If you really want to obey God, you will know if what I teach comes from God or from me" The rejection of the revelation that comes from God is not an intellectual problem. It is a moral problem. Jesus said, "Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and you shall find; knock, and it shall be opened to you: For everyone who asks receives; and he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks it shall be opened. Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone? Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent? If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to those who ask him? Matthew 7:7-11 You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink. You can set the truth before someone, but you can't make anyone believe those things that they don't want to submit to. They have to want to obey God. How frequently it is brought to our attention that nothing good can be done if the will is wrong! Reason alone fails to justify itself. Richard M. Weaver Jesus said, "You will know the truth, and the truth will set you free" (John 8:32) "If we are not prepared to buy the truth at the cost of our own humbling we shall not receive it" Lies appear to have no price upon them. They seem cheap and they abound everywhere. But for the truth there is always an obvious price to pay. [God] has set a day when He will judge all the world's people with fairness. And He has chosen the man Jesus to do the judging for Him. God has given proof of this to all of us by raising Jesus from death" (Acts 17:31). "There is a judge for the one who rejects Me [Jesus] and does not accept My words; that very word which I spoke will condemn him at the last day" (John 12:48) That also stands for every person who speaks the utterances of Jesus. When we hear them, we hear Jesus Christ, and we either accept or reject. Every person who follows Jesus Christ is commanded to only speak His utterances and not their own. "When we love others, we know that we belong to the truth, and we feel at ease in the presence of God" (1 John 3:19) Ravi Zacharias did two open forums in a university. On the second night, one man told him that he had brought two Atheists in the night before who said that the arguments presented were so strong that they could not contend with them, but they were going to remain Atheists because that is what they prefer to be true. In listening to an unbeliever and drawing out his reasoning, the unbeliever finally came to his foundations. They turned out to be assumptions that were pulled from the air. When asked why he believed his basic assumption, the unbeliever looked startled and blurted out, “I guess I’m making the whole thing up.” It was quite a revelation to him since he hadn't even known that he had any assumptions. However, he decided to remain an Atheist because he didn’t want God to rule over him. Able organizers surround themselves with people who are more able than they are.
Those who cannot lead and will not follow invariable obstruct.
Leadership stems more from personal inspiration than from offering directions.
The real leaders do not always march at the head of the procession.
A good idea that is shared with others will live forever.
Average people have five senses. Successful people have two more--horse and common.
A demagogue is a leader who gains intense loyalty by appealing to negative emotions and by polarizing groups against each other, often using lies and distortion, in order to advance his or her purposes.
If you are contented with what you have done, you will never reach your potential.
Be sure your conversation generates more light than heat.
Be yourself. If that doesn't satisfy you, improve yourself.
Best place for the knocker is right outside the door.
Beware of a half-truth; you may get hold of the wrong half.
Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting.
Better to cause happiness where you go than to cause happiness when you go.
Don't discourage another's plans unless you have better ones to offer.
"It can be done," is good, but, "It's done," is better.
It is better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot.
It is better to wear out than to rust out.
It's better to face up to trouble squarely than to live in fear of it forever.
Keep the old as long as it is good, and take the new as soon as it is better.
Give praise for a job well done, and the next job will be done even better.
Science may never come up with a better office communications system than the coffee break.
Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.
Time spent in getting even would be better spent in getting ahead.
To love your enemies is a good thing, but perhaps you should treat your friends even better.
Every day is Judgment Day. Use a lot of it.
Good and bad luck are often mistaken for good and bad judgment.
Good judgment is sometimes the result of lessons learned from using bad judgment.
Almost invariably a successful man appears simple but is very wise.
Many men are self-made, but only the successful ones will admit it.
No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar. (<"" />
To be successful, learn what you do best, then do it.
Discussion is an exchange of intelligence. Argument is an exchange of ignorance.
Great minds discuss ideas. Good minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.
Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.
Lack of good reason for doing a thing is a good reason for not doing it.
To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you're overdoing it.
You're only young once. After that you need another excuse for doing childish things.
Everyone should keep a mental wastebasket for disposing of what's not worth remembering.
If you can't do extraordinary things, do ordinary things extraordinarily well.
Remember that where you go hereafter may depend on what you go after here.
Speak well of your enemies; remember that you made them.
Holding a strong position often arouses strong opposition.
It isn't your position that makes you happy or unhappy; it's your disposition.
All progress stems from change, but all change is not necessarily progress.
Most people resist change--but without it, progress is impossible.
A person who shows promise has learned how to keep them.
Make promises cautiously, but once you have made them, fulfill them.
A dogmatic person always has concrete opinions thoroughly mixed and permanently set.
Be careful of the theories on which you bias your opinions.
Easy things become difficult when you do them with reluctance.
Success comes in cans. Failure comes in can'ts.
Success is never final and failure is never fatal.
There are many more trap doors to failure than there are short cuts to success.
Excuses are often the confession of failure.
Facts are stubborn things, but properly used, they will work hard for you.
Failure follows the man whose wishbone is where his backbone should be.
Failure is not falling down; it is remaining there when you have fallen.
Failure is the line of least persistence.
Faultfinders are all alike--they demand very much in others, but are satisfied with very little in themselves.
If a man could have half his Wishes, he would double his troubles. (
If you don't aim high, you will never hit high.
It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.
Even the richest soil, if uncultivated, produces only weeds.
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
In every problem there is an opportunity.
Keeping your eye too closely on the future may obscure present opportunities.
The opportunity of a lifetime is seldom labeled so.
Trouble is merely opportunity dressed in work clothes.
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