Leonard Sweet famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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

#Thinking #People #Identity
What you do is your history. What you set in motion is your legacy.
-- Leonard Sweet

#Legacy
The future is not something we enter. The future is something we create.
-- Leonard Sweet

#Positive Thinking #Thinking
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.
-- Leonard Sweet

#Being Yourself #Knowing #Coaching
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.
-- Leonard Sweet

#Jesus #Church #Missionary
The essence of leadership is relationship; influencing people to achieve things together that can't be achieved alone.
-- Leonard Sweet

#Leadership #Essence #People
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.
-- Leonard Sweet

#Simple #Differences #Scary
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
-- Leonard Sweet

#Men #Language #He Man
The strength of the church is not the strength of its institutions but the authenticity of its witness.
-- Leonard Sweet

#Church #Authenticity #Institutions
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 donâ€™t know.
-- Leonard Sweet

#Islands #Bigger #Shoreline
The true leader makes each team member twice the person they were before.
-- Leonard Sweet

#Leadership #Team #Members
When Jesus got to the point when most people today are thinking of retirement, he goes - 'time to save the world!'
-- Leonard Sweet

#Jesus #Retirement #Thinking
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.'
-- Leonard Sweet

#Believe #Book #Enough
Too many Christians want to change the world not because they love the world but because they hate the world
-- Leonard Sweet

#Christian #Hate #World
Can you imagine doing ministry the last five hundred years and getting away with â€˜Sorry, I donâ€™t do booksâ€™? Can you imagine doing ministry in the next five years and getting away with â€˜Sorry, I donâ€™t do Facebookâ€™?
-- Leonard Sweet

#Sorry #Book #Years
Leadership is the art of the future.
-- Leonard Sweet

#Leadership #Art
One can be a faithful disciple of Jesus Christ without denying the flickers of the sacred in followers of Yahweh, or Kali, or Krishna
-- Leonard Sweet

#Jesus #Faithful #Yahweh
People who minister worldwide to protect and conserve the environment are of no lower status than those who minister to plant churches.
-- Leonard Sweet

#People #Environmental #Church
No one "discovers" the future. The future is not a discovery. The future is not a destiny. The future is a decision, an intervention. Do nothing and we drift fatalistically into a future not driven by technology alone, but by other people's need, greed, and creed. The future is not some dim and distant region out there in time. The future is a reality that is coming to pass with each passing day, with each passing decision.
-- Leonard Sweet

#Future #Technology #Reality
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.
-- Leonard Sweet

#Fighting #Two #Soul
It would not do for the consumer to know that the hamburger she is eating came from a steer who spent much of his life standing deep in his own excrement in a feedlot, helping to pollute the local streams. Or that the calf that yielded the veal cutlet on her plate spent its life in a box in which it did not have room to turn around. Wendell Berry, "The Pleasures of Eating," What Are People For?, 1989 Jesus pioneered a relationship ethic based on compassion. Being a disciple means building relationships - with the Creator and with all creation and creatures.
-- Leonard Sweet

#Jesus #Mean #Animal
I only want to write one thing over the doorpost to my heart and life: â€œJesus Christ lives here.
-- Leonard Sweet

#Jesus #Writing #Heart
Stagnation is death. If you don't change, you die. It's that simple. It's that scary.
-- Leonard Sweet

#Simple #Scary
Followers of Jesus donâ€™t so much see different things from anyone else as they see the same things differently.
-- Leonard Sweet

#Jesus #Different #Followers
Jesus invested everything he had in a team. The Bible knows nothing about solo ministry, only team ministry.
-- Leonard Sweet

#Teamwork #Jesus #Ministry

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