Tim Quotes

The task is to become church for them, among them and with them, and under Spirit of God to lead them to become church in their own culture.

It is often out encounter with culture that first reveals to us our own culture.

Abba Macarius said, 'If you rebuke someone and do it with anger, you have allowed a passion to control you. You have not saved anyone and have destroyed yourself'.

Abba Marcius said, 'If you rebuke someone and do it with anger, you have allowed a passion to control you. You have not saved anyone and have destroyed yourself'.

Some people take offense like it's a limited time offer.

Don't exercise your freedom of speech until you have exercised your freedom of thought.

But I do like churches. The way it feels inside. It feels good when you just sit there, like you're in a forest and everything's really quiet, except there's still this sound you can't hear.

Love is the most powerful force in the universe and we have the extraordinary ability to give and receive it.

We usually don't realize the thing that is defining our identity until that thing is taken away.

Chemistry is great, but eventually your relationship moves out of the laboratory.

who cares about all the problems and barriers, nothing matters but the Spectacular Now.

There's things that have no finish, Scully, no ending to speak of. There's no justice to it, but that's the God's truth. The only end some things have is the end you give em.

A journey is best measured in friends rather than miles.

The truth is, there are not two kinds of people. There's only one: the kind that loves to divide up into gangs who hate each other's guts.

Too many decisions are made based on satisfying ego.

If the lifestyle choices outlined in this book were uniformly adopted, the savings in suffering and health care costs would be tremendous.

A great tragedy is occurring. Millions of people are dying prematurely. These people are killing themselves and they don’t even know it.

It was cliche, he knew, but he meant it classic.

Theory is like a book.It's full of meaningless words, a few want to read it and where stays the movie.

Sticks and stones may break your bones but words can break hearts.

Humility is a peace that accepts one's strengths and limitations.

...life is a continual process of learning, working hard, rising up, and then being humbled. Sliding over, then sliding over again. And again.

A humble person is comfortable in their own skin.

Stories can save us.

Stories are for joining the past to the future.

What stories can do, I guess, is make things present.

And in the end, really, there's nothing much to say about a true war story, except maybe "Oh.

I would love to continue to be someone that is positive but also be someone that is objective,

When someone says you can't, look at where they are sitting. Perhaps they meant they can't.

If it is a loving environment, the cage can be a home.

Every time you find your attention captured by a poster, your awareness, and perhaps something more, has, if only for a moment, been appropriated without your consent.

Do you think heaven's like that?Could be worse, said Serge. You know all those pushy people who keep telling us we're not going to heaven? It could be full of them instead.

Most human beings come into the world and leave it with nothing to show they ever lived.

Mr. Bird flung his food away and leaped to his feet, glaring around at no one in particular. 'I am not a dog!' he shouted agrily, his gold earrings flashing in the firelight.

The best thing about now, is that there's another one tomorrow.

...a disciplined pursuit of less will keep us focused and make the greatest impact.

Want to go really fast? Slow down and focus.

He shrugged. 'I know you're the type''Type?''The type that doesn't let things go

Success is like sausage, you'd be surprised what goes into it.

Leaders don't need a path. They make one.

What I’m suggesting is that the essence of leadership is soundness and that the essence of soundness is soul, which paradoxical as you might think it is, is that child within.

All work is service. If you aren't serving in your work, you really aren't working.

Leadership is service, not position.

Love is the most powerful force in the universe we have the ability power to give and receive it.

Do we choose sleep? Hell no and bullshit - we fall. We give ourselves over to possibility, to whim and fancy, to the bed, to the pillow, the tiny white tablet. And these choose for us.

One afternoon, disgusted, bravo, you fall asleep.

It's hard to admit, but if we're brutally honest with ourselves, we see that God is more responsible for the accomplishments of our lives than we are.

You can't fix your mistakes. Once people are dead, you can't make them undead.

Because Christ's life-story tells us about God and His complete work, let us learn the meaning of God's appearance "in the flesh" so that we could know Him better (1 Timothy 3:16).

Jesus Christ gave the perfect definition for resurrection. Resurrection means 'passed from death unto life.