60 Quotes by 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.

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.

You can't up-up-and-away in creativity and innovation without spending down-on-the-ground time in the muck and the mire.

Can you imagine doing ministry the last five hundred years and getting away with ‘Sorry, I don’t do books’? Can you imagine doing ministry in the next five years and getting away with ‘Sorry, I don’t do Facebook’?

For Jesus the home is not what defines the table; the table is what defines the home.

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

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.

To come to the table is to learn to be our real selves – not some construct conceived by someone else, but who God made us to be.

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