Quotes from Leonard Sweet
I understand God's patience with the wicked, but I do wonder how He can be so patient with the pious. —GEORGE MACDONALD
- Leonard Sweet
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.
- Leonard Sweet
We don't need to travel to find Christ. Christ has already traveled to find us. God is not the one whose back is turned. It is we who, for whatever reason, get our backs up or don't turn back to God.
- Leonard Sweet
I have no idea where I am going. . . . But I believe that the desire to please you does in fact please you. And I hope I have that desire in all that I am doing.
- Leonard Sweet
Anyone who doesn't need company is either greater than a man, and is a God, or lesser than a man, and is a beast.17 —Aristotle, as quoted by Saint Thomas Aquinas
- Leonard Sweet
For Jesus the home is not what defines the table; the table is what defines the home.
- Leonard Sweet
To please God, to be pleasing to God, is to "walk with Light," to walk with God in joy, praise, holiness, and humility as image-bearers of the Light.
- Leonard Sweet
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.
- Leonard Sweet
Stagnation is death. If you don't change, you die. It's that simple. It's that scary.
- Leonard Sweet
People who minister worldwide to protect and conserve the environment are of no lower status than those who minister to plant churches.
- Leonard Sweet
The "hole in the moral ozone" is really what's behind the hole in the ozone.
- Leonard Sweet
The future is not something we enter. The future is something we create.
- Leonard Sweet