Leonard Sweet Quotes

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

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

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

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.

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

The Chains of conformity click in tiresomely monotonous unison.

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.

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.

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

Leadership is the art of the future.

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.

One can be a faithful disciple of Jesus Christ without denying the flickers of the sacred in followers of Yahweh, or Kali, or Krishna. A globalization of evangelism ‘in connection’ with others, and a globally ‘in-formed’ gospel, is capable of talking across the fence with Hindu, Buddhist, Sikh, Muslim – people from other so called ‘new’ religious traditions (‘new’ only to us) – without assumption of superiority and power