Quotes about Vision

You are an artist. What work of art will you leave behind?

Success Recipe: 2 cups faith, 2 cups love, 1 cup hard work, 1 cup persistence, 1 tbsp vision and a dash of swagger.

Churches need to be intentional about reaching the next generation by creating templates for young people to see that there is a stepping stone for leadership in this church.

We are fallen dreamers, who dream of better worlds than the one in which we live. But the dreams we envision are often more about our own agenda than they are about our Lord's. Though we may not be aware of it, we are often at odds with our wise and loving Lord. The change he is working on is not the change we dream about. We dream about change in it—a person or circumstance—but God is working in the midst of it to change us.

Imagination is not the ability to dream up things that aren't real; it is the ability to see what is real but often unseen. As Eugene Peterson says in Subversive Spirituality, for a Christian whose hope is in an invisible God, seeing the unseen is essential. 24 Hebrews 11 calls this faith.

You might see nothing in him. I see everything in him.

It is to do nothing that the elect exist. Action is limited and relative. Unlimited and absolute is the vision of him who sits at ease and watches, who walks in loneliness and dreams.

You have a dreamer's look; you must not dream. It is only sick people who dream.

He was dreadfully short-sighted, and there was no pleasure in taking a husband who never sees anything.

Today, I see and create a radically new vision, one where everyone wins, everyone gets a seat at the table.

Humility is the only lens though which great things can be seen--and once we have seen them, humility is the only posture possible.

Purpose not only calls the team together but, like glue, holds the team together during the inevitable turbulence the team will experience on its journey.