60 Quotes by Leonard Sweet

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

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.

The church must provide postmoderns with an alternity of rituals by which they can turn and tune to one another and feel connected to the cosmos.

The Chains of conformity click in tiresomely monotonous unison.

Jesus called his disciples to “follow me,” but he didn’t tell them where they were going.

God does not ask if we are able. God asks if we are available.” And the weakness we offer him, he turns into a strength.

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

The kingdom of God is not a geographic domain with set boundaries and settled decrees, but a set of relationships in which Christ is sovereign. At the table, Jesus moves us from ideas about life and love to actual living and loving.

At the table, where food and stories are passed from one person to another and one generation to another, is where each of us learns who we are, where we come from, what we can be, to whom we belong, and to what we are called.