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title: "2 Invest Future Quotes By Lesslie Newbigin"
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> [A society which believes in a worthwhile future saves in the present so as to invest in the future. Contemporary Western society spends in the present and piles up debts for the future, ravages the environment, and leaves its grandchildren…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lesslie-newbigin/a-society-which-believes-in-a-worthwhile-future-saves-in-the-present/)

[Lesslie Newbigin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lesslie-newbigin/)

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> [...our societies appear to be intent on immediate consumption rather than on investment for the future. We are piling up enormous debts and exploiting the natural environment in a manner which suggests that we have no real sense of any…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lesslie-newbigin/our-societies-appear-to-be-intent-on-immediate-consumption-rather/)

[Lesslie Newbigin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lesslie-newbigin/)

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## More by Lesslie Newbigin

> [The living God is a God of justice and mercy and He will be satisfied with nothing less than a people in whom his…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lesslie-newbigin/the-living-god-is-a-god-of-justice-and-mercy-and-he-will-be-satisfied/)

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> [A society which believes in a worthwhile future saves in the present so as to invest in the future. Contemporary Western society spends in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lesslie-newbigin/a-society-which-believes-in-a-worthwhile-future-saves-in-the-present/)

[Lesslie Newbigin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lesslie-newbigin/)

> [“The witness of which the New Testament passages speak is God's gift, not our accomplishment.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lesslie-newbigin/the-witness-of-which-the-new-testament-passages-speak-is-god-s-gift/)

[Lesslie Newbigin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lesslie-newbigin/)

> [“The church is witness insofar as it follows obediently where the Spirit leads. The”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lesslie-newbigin/the-church-is-witness-insofar-as-it-follows-obediently-where-the/)

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> [“The minister’s leadership of the congregation in its mission to the world will be first and foremost in the area of his or her…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lesslie-newbigin/the-minister-s-leadership-of-the-congregation-in-its-mission-to-the/)

[Lesslie Newbigin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lesslie-newbigin/)

> [It is less important to ask a Christian what he or she believes about the Bible than it is to inquire what he or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lesslie-newbigin/it-is-less-important-to-ask-a-christian-what-he-or-she-believes-about/)

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> [“the authority of Jesus is ultimate, the”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lesslie-newbigin/the-authority-of-jesus-is-ultimate-the/)

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> [The church is not meant to call men and women out of the world into a safe religious enclave but to call them out…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lesslie-newbigin/the-church-is-not-meant-to-call-men-and-women-out-of-the-world-into-a/)

[Lesslie Newbigin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lesslie-newbigin/)

> [“Universality and particularity do not contradict one another but require one another. How”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lesslie-newbigin/universality-and-particularity-do-not-contradict-one-another-but/)

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> [To make the improving of our own character our central aim is hardly the highest kind of goodness. True goodness forgets itself and goes…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lesslie-newbigin/to-make-the-improving-of-our-own-character-our-central-aim-is-hardly/)

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> [“the Spirit himself is sovereign over the mission, the church can only be the attentive servant. In”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lesslie-newbigin/the-spirit-himself-is-sovereign-over-the-mission-the-church-can-only/)

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> [“When the Church tries to embody the rule of God in the forms of earthly power it may achieve that power, but it is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lesslie-newbigin/when-the-church-tries-to-embody-the-rule-of-god-in-the-forms-of/)

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> [“A person who wields power cannot see truth; that is the privilege of the powerless.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lesslie-newbigin/a-person-who-wields-power-cannot-see-truth-that-is-the-privilege-of/)

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> [“But if the biblical story is true, the kind of certainty proper to a human being will be one which rests on the fidelity…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lesslie-newbigin/but-if-the-biblical-story-is-true-the-kind-of-certainty-proper-to-a/)

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> [Live in the kingdom of God in such a way that it provokes questions for which the gospel is the answer.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lesslie-newbigin/live-in-the-kingdom-of-god-in-such-a-way-that-it-provokes-questions/)

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