Quotes about Vision

If we were supposed to be looking back at where we came from, we would have eyes in the back of our head, but we don't. Our eyes are at the front of us, so we can always look forward.

No, world! You are not going to do this to me any longer. I am not going to live on this crazy merry-go-round with no way off of it. I know what I am supposed to do, and I am going to do it. If you don't like it, talk to God. He is the One Who put this vision in me, and I am not going to frustrate myself all my life just to please you.

Get a good idea and stay with it. Do it, and work at it until it's done right.

You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.

Times and conditions change so rapidly that we must keep our aim constantly focused on the future.

I only hope that we don't lose sight of one thing - that it was all started by a mouse.

As the church in reform draws closer to its core confession, it inescapably embraces its most radical vision that violates and contradicts conventional practice in its social context. What makes such reform difficult, moreover, is the fact that while we ponder the radical core claims of faith, we ourselves are variously enmeshed in conventional practices that are inimical to the gospel.

Cynicism always comes clothed in "realism". The alternatives to begin with an act of imagination. Can we imagine another way?

requires both the outrageousness of God and the daily work of decreasing so that Jesus and God's vision of peace may increase.

Jesus astonishes his contemporaries by his capacity to see and act beyond conventional assumptions.

Some people skate to the puck. I skate to where the puck is going to be.

I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been