Leonard Sweet Quotes

#1. Truth is both reason and revelation - and both can surprise us.

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#2. The true leader makes each team member twice the person they were before.

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#3. Two opposing gospels are fighting one another for the soul of our nation and, increasingly, the world: the gospel of consumption and the gospel of peace.

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#4. When a Japanese manufacturer was asked by his North American counterpart, What is the best language in which to do business?" the man responded: "My customer's language

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#5. The future is not something we enter. The future is something we create.

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#6. What you do is your history. What you set in motion is your legacy.

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#7. The "hole in the moral ozone" is really what's behind the hole in the ozone.

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#8. Jesus invested everything he had in a team. The Bible knows nothing about solo ministry, only team ministry.

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#9. The strength of the church is not the strength of its institutions but the authenticity of its witness.

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#10. The teachings of Jesus begin in story and end in symbol - they begin in parable and end in us. These are not Bible stories that we learn; these are our stories.

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#11. I only want to write one thing over the doorpost to my heart and life: Jesus Christ lives here.

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#12. The essence of leadership is relationship; influencing people to achieve things together that can't be achieved alone.

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#13. As a cosmion incarnating the cells of a new body, New Lights will function as transitional vessels through which transforming energy can renew the divine image in the world, moving postmoderns from one state of embodiment to another.

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#14. Leadership is the art of the future.

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#15. To imagine things other than they are is the essence of hope. It is also the stuff of revolution.

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#16. What is the difference between a living thing and a dead thing? In the medical world, a clinical definition of death is a body that does not change. Change is life. Stagnation is death. If you don't change, you die. It's that simple. It's that scary.

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#17. People who minister worldwide to protect and conserve the environment are of no lower status than those who minister to plant churches.

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#18. When Jesus got to the point when most people today are thinking of retirement, he goes - 'time to save the world!'

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#19. Hirsch and Ford believe that we've 'demonstrated' enough. It's now time for 'doing.' This book shows how to be missional 'Right Here, Right Now.'

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#20. Sure, theater is tough because you're not home at night a lot and you work on weekends - every job has its downside. But to do something that you love doing for two hours a night, that's a pretty sweet gig.

Robert Sean Leonard

#21. The time to save God's Dream is now. The people to save God's Dream are you.

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#22. God did His most magnificent work while Adam was asleep. This episode contains and important insight: When man rests, God works.

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#23. You came to me this morning
And you handled me like meat
You'd have to be a man to know
How good that feels, how sweet

Leonard Cohen

#24. Can you imagine doing ministry the last five hundred years and getting away with 'Sorry, I don't do books'? Can you imagine doing ministry in the next five years and getting away with 'Sorry, I don't do Facebook'?

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#25. Your life is not your own: it belongs to God. To "be yourself" is to be and do what God wants you to be and do, knowing that God created you for a mission and knows you and your mission better than you do.

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#26. Too many Christians want to change the world not because they love the world but because they hate the world

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#27. If your identity is found in Christ, then it matters less and less what people think of you.

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#28. When I was learned, knowledge was everything. Now that I'm a learner, kindness is everything.

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#29. The greater the amount of knowledge you accumulate, the bigger your island gets, but the greater the shoreline of the unknown becomes. In short, the more you know, the more you know you don't know.

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#30. The Chains of conformity click in tiresomely monotonous unison.

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#31. Followers of Jesus don't so much see different things from anyone else as they see the same things differently.

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#32. Followership starts with Jesus, stays with Jesus, goes with Jesus, and ends with Jesus.

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#33. The church must provide postmoderns with an alternity of rituals by which they can turn and tune to one another and feel connected to the cosmos.

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#34. The real juice of life, whether it be sweet or bitter, is to be found not nearly so much in the products of our efforts as in the process of living itself, in how it feels to be alive.

George Leonard

#35. God is a God of motion, of movement, and of mission ... Mission is not an activity of the church but an attribute of God. God is a missionary God, Jesus is a missionary Messiah, and the Spirit is a missionary Spirit. Missions is the family business.

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#36. In Montreal spring is like an autopsy. Everyone wants to see the inside of the frozen mammoth. Girls rip off their sleeves and the flesh is sweet and white, like wood under green bark. From the streets a sexual manifesto rises like an inflating tire, the winter has not killed us again!

Leonard Cohen