Religion Quotes by Leonard Sweet

The strength of the church is not the strength of its institutions but the authenticity of its witness.

— Leonard Sweet

The teachings of Jesus begin in story and end in symbol - they begin in parable and end in us. These are…

— Leonard Sweet

Followers of Jesus don’t so much see different things from anyone else as they see the same things differently.

— Leonard Sweet

“Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair. —G. K. Chesterton12”

— Leonard Sweet

One can be a faithful disciple of Jesus Christ without denying the flickers of the sacred in followers of Yahweh, or Kali,…

— Leonard Sweet

Jesus invested everything he had in a team. The Bible knows nothing about solo ministry, only team ministry.

— Leonard Sweet

“Philip Yancey was dead-on when he said that some Christians get very angry toward other Christians who sin differently than they do.79”

— Leonard Sweet

Too many Christians want to change the world not because they love the world but because they hate the world

— Leonard Sweet

When I am engaging with people of other religious faiths, I find myself unable to commit to their conclusions or agree with…

— Leonard Sweet

Can you imagine doing ministry the last five hundred years and getting away with ‘Sorry, I don’t do books’? Can you imagine…

— Leonard Sweet

“Christians have become passive spectators in worship rather than active participants. By and large, we come to church to “watch the show”…

— Leonard Sweet

“If we were to make the table the most sacred object of furniture in every home, in every church, in every community,…

— Leonard Sweet

God is a God of motion, of movement, and of mission... Mission is not an activity of the church but an attribute…

— Leonard Sweet

Old Lights include the resurgent fundamentalists in every religion who put a freeze on history and fortify their adherents against the "new…

— Leonard Sweet

One can be a faithful disciple of Jesus Christ without denying the flickers of the sacred in followers of Yahweh, or Kali,…

— Leonard Sweet

“Believe me, you have too many practices already. What is needed is rather a progressive inner simplification. Too many people identify spiritual…

— Leonard Sweet

“The end product of biblical Christianity is a person—not a book, not a building, not a set of principles or a system…

— Leonard Sweet