Nudge Quotes

“If you aren’t smelling awful smells sometimes, then you’re not where Jesus is.”
― Leonard Sweet, Nudge: Awakening Each Other to the God Who's Already There

“You are what you pay attention to. No attention, no life. Everything comes to life when you pay attention to”
― Leonard Sweet, Nudge: Awakening Each Other to the God Who's Already There

“The church needs to be so clear about its identity as the body of Christ that everything it does generates a gravitational pull toward the heart.”
― Leonard Sweet, Nudge: Awakening Each Other to the God Who's Already There

“The greatest task of a human being, your greatest mission in life? To find and sing your own song … to the glory of God.”
― Leonard Sweet, Nudge: Awakening Each Other to the God Who's Already There

“Semiotic nudge is more about “Speak, Lord; your servant is listening” than it is “Listen, Lord; your servant is speaking.”58”
― Leonard Sweet, Nudge: Awakening Each Other to the God Who's Already There

“What do you mean?” they asked Jesus. “I mean this,” he replied; and he took the bread, gave thanks, broke it into fragments, and shared those broken pieces with his disciples. And that piece, and those broken pieces, have been shared in every conceivable setting and played in every known language ever since. Faith is the gift of reading the signs of the presence of God. The point of reading signs is not the signs themselves, but the Signifier, Jesus the Christ.”
― Leonard Sweet, Nudge: Awakening Each Other to the God Who's Already There

“Jesus expressed an earthy, semiotic theology by materializing his message through various media, including images, stories, actions (stilled storms, healed limbs), and objects like spit, fig trees, bursting baskets, etc. He was a master semiotician. You might even say that Jesus’ ministry was more a semiotics ministry than a preaching, teaching, or healing ministry.”
― Leonard Sweet, Nudge: Awakening Each Other to the God Who's Already There

“What counts in evangelism is not cognition, but recognition. Can”
― Leonard Sweet, Nudge: Awakening Each Other to the God Who's Already There

“The more I discover what I am, the more miserable I get; the more I discover who God is and who God made me, the happier I become.”
― Leonard Sweet, Nudge: Awakening Each Other to the God Who's Already There

“We are what we do with our attention.”64”
― Leonard Sweet, Nudge: Awakening Each Other to the God Who's Already There

“As science turns toward the realm of the Spirit to understand the physical universe, Space, Matter, Time are more prone to induce reverence than arrogance among scientists, who are sounding more like Isaiah in the temple than Isaac Newton under the apple tree.”
― Leonard Sweet, Nudge: Awakening Each Other to the God Who's Already There

“The currency of the gospel of religion is fear and imposition. The currency of the gospel of Christ is love and invitation.”
― Leonard Sweet, Nudge: Awakening Each Other to the God Who's Already There

“Everything that surrounds you can give you something.51 —Hungarian photographer André Kertész”
― Leonard Sweet, Nudge: Awakening Each Other to the God Who's Already There

“The one elementary but elemental factor in all civilizations that collapsed into extinction is the failure to read the handwriting on the wall, the failure to respond to warning signs. Every extinct culture hurled signs high into the heavens for all to see. But every collapsing culture failed to read and heed these flares.52”
― Leonard Sweet, Nudge: Awakening Each Other to the God Who's Already There