T.L. Osborn Quotes

You should never ask God to do what He has said He’s already done, and you should never ask God to do what He has told you to do.

Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.

The gospel of the kingdom must be preached with evidence; it must be preached as a witness.This can only be done by christians who are filled with the Holy Spirit.

One Way: Jesus! One Job: Evangelism!

Speaking in tongues is not enough.If we turn men from unchristian religions to christianity we must produce miracles which convince men that Christ lives and He is real today.

Only the power of the Living Christ proclaimed in demonstration of the Holy Spirit, can meet the urgent needs of humanity.

Christians need never be sick, any more than they need to be sinful. It is always God's desire to heal you.

There is only one purpose of pentecost; that is to effectively evangelize lost souls.

Ministry is pretty simple. Love people and help them.

New facts often trigger new ideas

Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom!

Creativity is more than mere imagination. It is imagination inseparably coupled with both intent and effort.

Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom, while discouragement often nips it in the bud. Any of us will put out more and better ideas if our efforts are appreciated.

Each of us has an Aladdin's Lamp which psychologists call creative imagination.

If you go fishing you may not catch any fish. If you don't go fishing, you'll never catch any fish.

It's much easier to tame a wild idea than invigorate one that has no life in the first place.

Whatever creative success I gained was due to my belief that creative power can be stepped up by effort, and that there are ways in which we can guide our creative thinking.

Necessity may be mother of invention, but fun is the father.

Any of us will put out more and better ideas if our efforts are appreciated.

As in the piling up of hypothetical alternatives, creative accidents follow the law of probabilities the more we fish, the more likely we are to get a strike.

It is easier to tone down a wild idea than to think up a new one.

Imagination is the cornerstone of human endeavor.

Eugenic goals are most likely to be attained under another name than eugenics.

The most important eugenic policy at this time is to see that birth control is made equally available to all individuals in every class of society

Often when economic pressure is lifted, a man must pump back into himself a feeling of must.

Imagination is vital to precautionary judgement.

Observation capitalizes inspiration.

Reading supplies bread for imagination to feed on and bones for it to chew on.

Most ideas are step-by-step children of other ideas.

Tyrannosaurus is the most superb carnivorous mechanism among the terrestrial Vertebrata, in which raptorial power and speed are combined.

Worry is essentially a misuse of imagination.

Birth Control and abortion are turning out to be the great eugenic advances of our time.

Creativity is the production of meaning by synthesis.

I am perhaps more proud of having helped to redeem the character of the cave-man than of any other single achievement of mine in the field of anthropology.

Journalistic hours are odd and long and often tense, and newsmen seek each other out as natural allies in a world that is so much part of them, but which they visit so randomly.

There is another reason journalists like to drink and eat together: they simply cannot think of better company.

Yes, I was deprived of sleep, especially during the first few days, ... However, there was nothing physical, no touching or anything like that.

The trouble with entering the upper echelon is you have to work harder to stay there.

America once had the clarity of a pioneer axe.

No existing form of anthropoid ape is even remotely related to the stock which has given rise to man.

Wait awhile, and everything will change."~'Griblich

Suddenly the images in the center of the room became more than images. They solidified.

Watson fully comprehended the fact that occasionally it is useful for one’s adversaries to underestimate one’s abilities.”~Sherlock Holmes

Sometimes you gotta say what's in your heart... And you have to stand for what you believe. No matter what." ~'Dr. Michael C. Anders,

A wise man does not always admit to everything he knows. And sometimes an overly-credulous friend can be a source of mild amusement.”~Sherlock Holmes