Leonard Sweet Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

Stagnation is death. If you don't change, you die. It's that simple. It's that scary.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

One can be a faithful disciple of Jesus Christ without denying the flickers of the sacred in followers of Yahweh, or Kali, or Krishna

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

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

The Chains of conformity click in tiresomely monotonous unison.

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.

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.

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

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

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

Leadership is the art of the future.

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.

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

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.'