The Chains of conformity click in tiresomely monotonous unison. Leonard Sweet More Quotes by Leonard Sweet More Quotes From Leonard Sweet The teachings of Jesus begin in story and end in symbol - they begin in parable and end in us. These are not Bible stories that we learn; these are our stories. Leonard Sweet teaching stories jesus The greater the amount of knowledge you accumulate, the bigger your island gets, but the greater the shoreline of the unknown becomes. In short, the more you know, the more you know you don’t know. Leonard Sweet shoreline bigger islands People who minister worldwide to protect and conserve the environment are of no lower status than those who minister to plant churches. Leonard Sweet environmental church people As a cosmion incarnating the cells of a new body, New Lights will function as transitional vessels through which transforming energy can renew the divine image in the world, moving postmoderns from one state of embodiment to another. Leonard Sweet cells light moving When Jesus got to the point when most people today are thinking of retirement, he goes - 'time to save the world!' Leonard Sweet retirement jesus thinking Old Lights include the resurgent fundamentalists in every religion who put a freeze on history and fortify their adherents against the "new dark age" in which they are forced to live. "Back to the Bible," Old Lights shout; "back to the Koran," Old Lights thunder. But not everything Old Lights say is wrong. Much is right. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day, the old adage reminds us. Leonard Sweet light age dark The time to save God's Dream is now. The people to save God's Dream are you. Leonard Sweet dream people Followers of Jesus don’t so much see different things from anyone else as they see the same things differently. Leonard Sweet followers different jesus A billion homo sapiens are added every 11 years to the planet. The hypertrophy of a single species pushes other life-forms out of bed and into extinction. The decline of biological diversity is real and severe. The alarming loss of soil fertility, forest cover, and coral reef viability and the release of fossilized CO2 that nature put away 300 million years ago in its march toward greater diversity - all these "losses" and many others are the result of one life-form annihilating other life-forms in its immoral confusion of "dominion" with "domination." Leonard Sweet real loss years 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’? Leonard Sweet sorry book years 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. Leonard Sweet cosmos church tunes To imagine things other than they are is the essence of hope. It is also the stuff of revolution. Leonard Sweet revolution essence stuff The "hole in the moral ozone" is really what's behind the hole in the ozone. Leonard Sweet ozone environmental moral Hirsch and Ford believe that we've 'demonstrated' enough. It's now time for 'doing.' This book shows how to be missional 'Right Here, Right Now.' Leonard Sweet enough believe book Leadership is the art of the future. Leonard Sweet leadership art One can be a faithful disciple of Jesus Christ without denying the flickers of the sacred in followers of Yahweh, or Kali, or Krishna Leonard Sweet faithful sweet jesus Two opposing gospels are fighting one another for the soul of our nation and, increasingly, the world: the gospel of consumption and the gospel of peace. Leonard Sweet fighting soul two It would not do for the consumer to know that the hamburger she is eating came from a steer who spent much of his life standing deep in his own excrement in a feedlot, helping to pollute the local streams. Or that the calf that yielded the veal cutlet on her plate spent its life in a box in which it did not have room to turn around. Wendell Berry, "The Pleasures of Eating," What Are People For?, 1989 Jesus pioneered a relationship ethic based on compassion. Being a disciple means building relationships - with the Creator and with all creation and creatures. Leonard Sweet animal mean jesus