Tim Quotes
He wanted to heat up the truth, to make it burn so hot that you would feel exactly what he felt.
Men, and pigs, are hard on women who sacrifice their virtue, especially for love." Mattis Tannhouser
We have our own language. Christianese... We don't say 'He's out of his mind, ' no, we say 'That's our youth pastor.
Productivity is not what will bring purpose to your life, but what will enable you to excel in living out your existing purpose.
Productivity—true productivity—will never be better or stronger than the foundation you build it upon.
Remember your created limits. So much of workaholism is a defiance of the physical limitations that God our creator has imposed upon us.
Underlying many aspects of water development is a myth: the myth that we must have more.
One by one, the electric lights ringing the lawn were ignited. Each one, as it burst into brilliance, erased a constellation from the evening sky.
Closure is an American lie used to justify revenge. Healing is getting used to the pain, learning to be damaged.
Without pain, how would we know what true joy feels like?
Don't leave the classroom of pain without gathering wisdom from its instruction.
This is for everyone who has ever looked at the stars, or gazed from atop a hill, or across the sea and wondered...
The raven – Asker – immediately cawed. It sounded suspiciously like laughter. “Not... be afraid of Asker.” The raven’s button eyes gleamed. “He only eats worms… you are not worm.
Genealogy itself is something of a privilege, coming far more easily to those of us for whom enslavement, conquest, and dispossession of our land has not been our lot.
In any power game, it seems, the dominant party is the least likely to be aware of what is going on.
You have to stop thinking that way. Don't worry about who has the power in the relationship all the time. If you make her happy, then that's the biggest power you can have.
I found a word, and carefully placed it next to another. Soon I had a bridge and a pathway to a wonderful future.
Maybe it’s just in America, but it seems that if you’re passionate about something, it freaks people out. You’re considered bizarre or eccentric. To me, it just means you know who you are.
Children love to polish brass and silver, then move on to polishing their own shoes.
She forgot: it was as simple as that. She just loved being with the guy. Possibly enough that not even their own wedding could screw it up.
That’s what fiction is for. It’s for getting at the truth when the truth isn’t sufficient for the truth.
What stories can do, I guess, is make things present.I can look at things I never looked at. I can attach faces to grief and love and pity and God. I can be brave. I can make myself feel again.
People are most vociferously opposed to those forces they have to resist more fiercely within themselves.
How one responds in these dire circumstances says a lot about one's faith and the strength of one's beliefs.
I found a word, and carefully placed it next to another. Soon I had a bridge and a life, like no other.
Atheism isn’t a growth model any more than “I don’t like rollerblading” is a workout strategy.
Because Filipinos are very creative and assiduous people, they will always find a way to make things happen.
When there is silence, Give your voice. When there is darkness, Shine your light. When there is desperation, Offer hope.
but even if true belief about matters of importance is of intrinsic value, it does not follow that the value of truth should always trump every other value with which it might compete.
Let me propose that if your beliefs or convictions matter more to you than people—if they require you to act as though you were a worse person than you are—you may have lost perspective.
In the end, every man's life is but a tale told to him that's lived it, and to him alone.
