Leighton Ford quotes

“God loves us the way we are, but too much to leave us that way.”
-- Leighton Ford

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“True leadership means to receive power from God and use it under God's rule to serve people in God's way.”
-- Leighton Ford

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“There is no detour to holiness, Jesus came to the resurrection through the cross, not around it.”
-- Leighton Ford

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“Often in the morning I will sit in a favorite chair in my study with a cup of coffee, with classical music playing, not trying to form a prayer with words but waiting, listening, until perhaps I sense the Spirit bringing to the surface a word from God. Then I offer just a simple 'Thank you.'”
-- Leighton Ford

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“Evangelism is a cross in the heart of God.”
-- Leighton Ford

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“The Christian that is bound by his own horizon, the church that lives simply for itself, is bound to die a spiritual death and sink into stagnancy and corruption. We never can thank God enough for giving us not only a whole Gospel to believe, but a whole world to give it to.”

“All play aspires to the condition of paradise...through play in all its forms...we hope to achieve a state that our larger Greco-Roman, Judeo- Christian culture has always known was lost. Where it exists, we do not know, although we always have envisioned it as a garden...always as removed, as an enclosed green place...Paradise is an ancient dream...It is a dream of ourselves as better than we are, back to what we were.”

“A heathen philosopher once asked a Christian, 'Where is God'? The Christian answered, 'Let me first ask you, Where is He not?'”

“You gave too much rein to your imagination. Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master. The simplest explanation is always the most likely.”

“I've seen too much in life to give up.”

“If you play the theatrics too much, you get in the way of your own cause.”

“Those of us with too much invested in the way things are will never embrace the revolutionary cause required for wholesale change.”

“It is often wonderful how putting down on paper a clear statement of a case helps one to see, not perhaps the way out, but the way in.”

“You just can't let anything or anyone get in the way of who you are.”

“There is no way to peace. Peace is the way.”

Source : Quoted in N.Y. Times, 16 Nov. 1967