LEADERSHIP WORD OF THE WEEK:

TIME

LEADERSHIP QUOTES

“The difference between wise men and fools, rich men and poor men, saints and sinners, saved men and damned men, does not usually result so much from difference of circumstances, and the start they had in life, as in the difference in their use of time.”  Samuel Logan Brengle

“Make haste slowly.”  Old proverb

“Believe me when I tell you that thrift of time will repay you in life with a usury of profit beyond your most sanguine dreams, and that the waste of it will make you dwindle, alike in intellectual and moral stature, beyond your darkest reckonings.” William Ewart  Gladstone

 “Whether it’s the best of times or the worst of times, it’s the only time we’ve got.”

Journalist Art Buchwald

“The future is nothing but a coming present, and the present which thou despisest was once a future which thou desiredst.  Jean Paul Richter

 “Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.”

Henry Miller

 

HISTORICAL PROFILE

  • It was said that when Philipp Melancthon (friend of Luther) made an appointment, he expected not only the hour, but the minute, to be fixed, that the day might not run out in the idleness of suspense.
  • One morning, about five o’clock, John Wesley lost ten minutes through the tardiness of his coachman, and he mourned for them more than over lost treasure.
  • James Brainerd Taylor stopped at a watering trough one day.  There he met a fellow traveler.  During the five minutes that their horses were drinking Taylor preached Jesus to the stranger.  He gave his life to Christ there at the trough and later became a missionary to Africa.  They never met again and the stranger always wondered who had led him to the Lord.  Years later in Africa, the missionary received a box of books.  Thumbing through them he opened a small volume of memoirs and on the inside he spied the picture of the traveling evangelist who utilized five minutes at a horse trough to preach Jesus to a stranger rather than waste time talking about the weather or the crop conditions.

 

SCRIPTURE

Ephesians 5:16 Redeeming the time, because the days are evil.

Colossians 4:5 Walk in wisdom toward them that are without, redeeming the time.

 

“What might we accomplish this week if we stay time conscious?”  JAS

 

 
     

Copyright ©2002-2007 Abundant Life Tabernacle 9440 Eby Road, Germantown, Ohio 45327. - (937)855-7334