Quotes about Vision

In leadership, energy is one of the essential ingredients needed for bringing any sense of new to the table. It's energy that produces excitement in others.

When the why we do what we do doesn't permeate in all that we do, our value systems give evidence that we do not have enough truth to successfully support what we do and who we are. Our own lack of truth then becomes a stumbling block to sharing the knowledge, vision, and passions behind whatever it is we do and whoever it is we are. We cannot give away what we do not own, and that's why we need to have our own "faith stories" to pass on. As

If you stop dreaming, you get complacent, and complacency never changes the world.

If you don't have a dream that leads you to greater dependence on God, then you need to get a bigger dream!

A politician thinks of the next election; a statesman thinks of the next generation.

We need to stop shuffling service parts randomly and set our sights on a goal, something we are moving toward in every service element.

If we had not experienced our deep sinfulness and Jesus' deep forgiveness through the cross, we will not love others well in the midst of their struggles. If we do not see the beauty and glory of God in our own redemption, we will not be able to offer a compelling redemptive vision for those who are hopeless and who doubt God's love for them.

But it is the mark of all movements, however well-intentioned, that their pioneers tend, by much lashing of themselves into excitement, to lose sight of the obvious.

If thine eye be single, the whole body is full of light

Our mere anticipations of life outrun its realities.

We just fundamentally forgot that people want to vote for something positive. They want to be shown what the good life for them personally looks like.

I want to put a ding in the universe.