Leonard Sweet Quotes

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• The future is not something we enter. The future is something we create.

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  Wisdom, Future, Positive Thinking

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• What you do is your history. What you set in motion is your legacy.

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  Inspirational, Life, New Beginnings

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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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  Jesus, Thinking, People

  Leonard Sweet (2014). “The Well-Played Life: Why Pleasing God Doesn't Have to Be Such Hard Work”, p.116, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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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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  Life, God, Christian

  Leonard Sweet (2002). “Soulsalsa: 17 Surprising Steps for Godly Living in the 21st Century”, p.11, Harper Collins

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• 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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  Jesus, Church, Missionary

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

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• The strength of the church is not the strength of its institutions but the authenticity of its witness.

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  Church, Authenticity, Institutions

  Leonard Sweet, Frank Viola (2012). “Jesus: A Theography”, p.156, Thomas Nelson

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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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  Men, Important, Adam

  Leonard Sweet, Frank Viola (2012). “Jesus: A Theography”, p.31, Thomas Nelson

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• 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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  Simple, Differences, Scary

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• When I was learned, knowledge was everything. Now that I'm a learner, kindness is everything.

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  Kindness, Learners

  Leonard Sweet (2009). “Summoned to Lead”, p.92, Harper Collins

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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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  Leadership, Essence, People

  Leonard Sweet (2009). “Summoned to Lead”, p.67, Harper Collins

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• I only want to write one thing over the doorpost to my heart and life: “Jesus Christ lives here.

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  Jesus, Writing, Heart

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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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  Christian, Hate, World

  Leonard Sweet, Frank Viola (2010). “Jesus Manifesto: Restoring the Supremacy and Sovereignty of Jesus Christ”, p.118, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Jesus invested everything he had in a team. The Bible knows nothing about solo ministry, only team ministry.

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  Teamwork, Jesus, Ministry

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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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  Spiritual, Religious, Assessment

  Leonard Sweet (2010). “Nudge: Awakening Each Other to the God Who's Already There”, p.28, David C Cook

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

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  Leadership, Team, Members

  Leonard Sweet (2009). “Summoned to Lead”, p.68, Harper Collins

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• Stagnation is death. If you don't change, you die. It's that simple. It's that scary.

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  Simple, Scary, Don't Change

  Leonard Sweet (2001). “SoulTsunami: Sink Or Swim in New Millennium Culture”, p.73, Zondervan

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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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  Future, Technology, Reality

  Leonard Sweet (2001). “SoulTsunami: Sink Or Swim in New Millennium Culture”, p.55, Zondervan

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• 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

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  Men, Language, He Man

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• 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

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  Religious, Sweet, Jesus

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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.

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  Islands, Bigger, Shoreline

  "Jesus: A Theography". Book by Frank Viola, Leonard Sweet, October 9, 2012.

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

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  Jesus, Different, Followers

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• Energy-fire experiences take us into ourselves only that we might reach outside of ourselves. Metanoia is a de-centering experience of connected-ness and community. It is not an exercise in reciting what Jesus has done for me lately. Energy-fire ecstasy, more a buzz than a binge, takes us out of ourselves, literally. That is the meaning of the word 'ecstatic.'

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  Jesus, Exercise, Fire

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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.

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  Jesus, Teaching, Stories

  Leonard Sweet (2001). “SoulTsunami: Sink Or Swim in New Millennium Culture”, p.426, Zondervan

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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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  Dream, People

  Leonard Sweet (2009). “Soultsunami: Sink or Swim in New Millennium Culture”, p.31, Zondervan

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• The Chains of conformity click in tiresomely monotonous unison.

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  Conformity, Unison, Chains

  Leonard I. Sweet, Lance Ford (2011). “I Am a Follower: The Way, Truth, and Life of Following Jesus”, p.222, Thomas Nelson Inc

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