J. Oswald Sanders

September 4, 2018Written by Rick Shrader

J. Oswald Sanders on Anger

“F. W. Robertson was similarly stirred by righteous anger on one occasion. Describing his reaction he said: ‘My blood was at the moment running fire, and I remembered that once in my life I had felt a terrible might; I knew and rejoiced to know that I was inflicting the sentence of a coward’s and a liar’s hell.’ Martin Luther claimed that he ‘never did anything well until his wrath was excited, and then he could do anything well.’”

J. Oswald Sanders, Spiritual Leadership, p. 62

Source: Spiritual Leadership

This book by Sanders has been a standard textbook on leadership in Bible Colleges and Seminaries. Sanders always gives good, conservative, and sensible directions on leaderhip both personal and ministry related.

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