Quotes about Vision

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

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.