Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become. Your Vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your Ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.

One quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.

Man's only limitation, within reason, lies in his development and use of his imagination.

It's difficult for your mindset when you don't know what you're training for.

History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes.

No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.

Reason is the natural order of truth but imagination is the organ of meaning.

Are you satisfied with the nature of your church today but simply want your church to be bigger?

A visionary pastor is a successful pastor.

You might define vision as foresight with insight based on hindsight.

Although they are good people and have been called to ministry, most senior pastors do not have an understanding of God's vision for the ministries they are trying to lead—and, consequently, most churches have little impact in their community or in the lives of their congregants.

Clara lived in a universe of her own invention, protected from life's inclement weather, where the prosaic truth of material objects mingled with the tumultuous reality of dreams and the laws of physics and logic did not always apply.