A leader’s humility should grow with the passing of years, like other attitudes and qualities.
On one occasion when Samuel Brengle was introduced as “the great Doctor Brengle,” he noted in his diary: If I appear great in their eyes, the Lord is most graciously helping me to see how absolutely nothing I am without Him, and helping me to keep little in my own eyes. He does use me. But I am so concerned that He uses me and that it is not of me the work is done. The axe cannot boast of the trees it has cut down. It could do nothing but for the woodsman. He made it, he sharpened it, and he used it. The moment he throws it aside; it becomes only old iron. O that I may never lose sight of this.”
Robert Morrison of China wrote: “The great fault in our missions is that no one likes to be second.”
All the above quotes are taken from
Spiritual Leadership: Principles of Excellence for Every Believer (J.Oswald Sanders)
