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When there is no possibility of retreat, we will find the innovation that only the liminal situation can bring. In short, we find the faith of leap.

— Alan Hirsch The Faith of Leap (2011)

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Real leaders ask hard questions and knock people out of their comfort zones and then manage the resulting distress.

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The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.

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The missional church is not a new trend or the latest new technique for reaching postmodern people.

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A retreatist spirituality is not a spirituality that can, or will, transform the world in Jesus’s name.

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The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.

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Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

William James The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy (1897)

Question with boldness even the existence of a god; because, if there be one, he must more approve the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.

Thomas Jefferson Letter to Peter Carr (1787)

I had never doubted my own abilities, but I was quite prepared to believe that "the world" would decline to recognize them.

Colin Wilson Postscript to the Outsider (1967)

Love is the active, working principle in all true faith. It is its very soul, without which it is dead. "Faith works by love."

Jonathan Edwards Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

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