Quotes about Vision

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.

We need to stop shuffling service parts randomly and set our sights on a goal, something we are moving toward in every service element.

If we had not experienced our deep sinfulness and Jesus' deep forgiveness through the cross, we will not love others well in the midst of their struggles. If we do not see the beauty and glory of God in our own redemption, we will not be able to offer a compelling redemptive vision for those who are hopeless and who doubt God's love for them.