Leighton Ford famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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God loves us the way we are, but too much to leave us that way.
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True leadership means to receive power from God and use it under God's rule to serve people in God's way.
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There is no detour to holiness, Jesus came to the resurrection through the cross, not around it.
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Often in the morning I will sit in a favorite chair in my study with a cup of coffee, with classical music playing, not trying to form a prayer with words but waiting, listening, until perhaps I sense the Spirit bringing to the surface a word from God. Then I offer just a simple 'Thank you.'
-- Leighton Ford
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The Christian that is bound by his own horizon, the church that lives simply for itself, is bound to die a spiritual death and sink into stagnancy and corruption. We never can thank God enough for giving us not only a whole Gospel to believe, but a whole world to give it to.
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All play aspires to the condition of paradise...through play in all its forms...we hope to achieve a state that our larger Greco-Roman, Judeo- Christian culture has always known was lost. Where it exists, we do not know, although we always have envisioned it as a garden...always as removed, as an enclosed green place...Paradise is an ancient dream...It is a dream of ourselves as better than we are, back to what we were.
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A heathen philosopher once asked a Christian, 'Where is God'? The Christian answered, 'Let me first ask you, Where is He not?'
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You gave too much rein to your imagination. Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master. The simplest explanation is always the most likely.
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I've seen too much in life to give up.
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If you play the theatrics too much, you get in the way of your own cause.
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Those of us with too much invested in the way things are will never embrace the revolutionary cause required for wholesale change.
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It is often wonderful how putting down on paper a clear statement of a case helps one to see, not perhaps the way out, but the way in.
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You just can't let anything or anyone get in the way of who you are.
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There is no way to peace. Peace is the way.
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