Quotes from Leonard Sweet

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

To imagine things other than they are is the essence of hope. It is also the stuff of revolution.

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

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.

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

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

Jesus called his disciples to "follow me," but he didn't tell them where they were going.

Philip Yancey was dead-on when he said that some Christians get very angry toward other Christians who sin differently than they do.79

Believe me, you have too many practices already. What is needed is rather a progressive inner simplification. Too many people identify spiritual prowess with being perpetually busy heaping meditation upon meditation, prayer upon prayer, reading upon reading instead of learning from the simple souls the great secret of knowing how, from time to time, to hold yourself back a little in peace and silence, attentive before God.5

The devil ought not to be in our line of vision but in our shadow.

One's destination is never a place, but rather a new way of looking at things.

The church needs to be so clear about its identity as the body of Christ that everything it does generates a gravitational pull toward the heart.

disciples are not copiers of Christ but continuing incarnations of Jesus' life and love.

Some preachers need a travel agent to handle all the guilt trips they put on God's people. But there is a big difference between putting a guilt trip on Christians and unveiling Christ to them. When Christ is presented in power, the Spirit of God will undoubtedly convict those who are walking in contradiction to their new nature.

We all need the pendulum swing of snatching spaces of solitude and serving tables of sociability. In fact, the more plugged in and connected we are, the more we need to unplug and disconnect. A world of presence needs a time of absence.

The essential element of Christian truth is that the risen Christ is not something you mimic but someone you manifest.

Bleed with us.

Have your breakfasts all alone. Share lunch with your best friends. Invite your enemy to dinner. Nelson Mandela

Preaching is the primary means whereby the miracle of Cana continues, as Jesus turns our life from water — tasteless, colorless, odorless — into homemade vintage wine, known for its vibrant flavor, vivid sparkle, and alluring aroma.

The greatest task of a human being, your greatest mission in life? To find and sing your own song … to the glory of God.

Every crisis raises relational issues: Will you try it and handle it yourself? Will you find a new partner? Or will you and Jesus tackle the crisis together? In tackling the stuff of life together, you'll see that your relationship with God will deepen. In pondering Christ, you find that you are in fact living His life, and God is living yours. Christ in you and you in Christ. God doesn't lead you through phases or steps.

If we were to make the table the most sacred object of furniture in every home, in every church, in every community, our faith would quickly regain its power, and our world would quickly become a better place. The table is the place where identity is born—the place where the story of our lives is retold, re-minded, and relived.

To be cut off by the sword of injured friendship is the most dreadful of all deaths, next to suicide.

Wallace shared with the graduates, "In the day-to-day trenches of adult life, there is actually no such thing as atheism. There is no such thing as not worshipping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship.