Leonard Sweet Quotes

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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.

Leonard Sweet
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.

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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.

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

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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.

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The Chains of conformity click in tiresomely monotonous unison.

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

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

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

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When I am engaging with people of other religious faiths, I find myself unable to commit to their conclusions or agree with their assessments. Yet at the same time I come away encouraged by spiritual truths found in their traditions, thrilled by new insights into my own faith, and more passionate than ever about being a disciple of Christ.

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

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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.

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

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

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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.

Leonard Sweet