"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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Source : Leonard Sweet (2009). “So Beautiful: Divine Design for Life and the Church”, p.55, David C Cook

Leonard Sweet

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“I'm learning to play piano. And also the musical saw.”
“There is no necessity for a technique or formula for meditation. Inner feeling, or inner knowing, is the silent voice of inspiration.”
“Everything you say or allow into your eyes or ears becomes data that is stored in your heart. That data is later replayed during your prayer. If you want to know what is filling your heart, look at what you think about in your prayer. If you want to guard your heart, guard your eyes, ears, and tongue.”
“When I make a film I'm always in reality among the trees, and among the people like yourselves. There's no symbolic or conventional filter between me and reality as there is in literature. The cinema is an explosion of my love for reality.”
“The older the grapes, sweeter the wine.”
“One never comes into embarrassment, if one is ready to balance. To ask oneself never in embarrassment, what have you in these decades made.”
“I've spent a lot of very happy times in Edinburgh as a result of playing virtually every festival since 1996. It's also a beautiful city in its own right, is walkable, within sight of the sea and mountains - and was too far north for the Luftwaffe to have done any damage, hence the spectacularly beautiful architecture.”
“I have lived long enough both in years and in accomplishments.”

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