Tim Michiemo > Tim's Quotes

“The biblical call on our lives is not to do good randomly and haphazardly. Rather, God calls us to be proactive in doing good — even to the point of making plans for the good of others.”
― Zondervan Publishing, What's Best Next: How the Gospel Transforms the Way You Get Things Done

“the most unproductive thing of all is to make more efficient what should not be done at all.”
― Zondervan Publishing, What's Best Next: How the Gospel Transforms the Way You Get Things Done

“This is the great irony: defining productivity mainly in terms of immediate measurable results undermines the measurable results in the long run.”
― Zondervan Publishing, What's Best Next: How the Gospel Transforms the Way You Get Things Done

“So too let him rejoice and delight in finding you who are beyond discovery rather than fail to find you by supposing you to be discoverable.”
― Augustine of Hippo, Confessions

“God is the ultimate measure and judge of our productivity. Things that do not pass muster at the final judgment are, by definition, not productive in an ultimate sense. On the other hand, passing the final judgment is the ultimate meaning of a productive life.5 Hence, in order to know what is truly productive, we need to look to God first, not ourselves or even our own desires.”
― Zondervan Publishing, What's Best Next: How the Gospel Transforms the Way You Get Things Done

“we feel unfulfilled when there is a gap between what is most important to us (the realm of personal leadership) and what we are actually doing with our time (the realm of personal management). You are satisfied with your day when there is a match between what you value and how you spent your time.”
― Zondervan Publishing, What's Best Next: How the Gospel Transforms the Way You Get Things Done

“Either sin must drown in the tears of repentance—or the soul must burn in hell.”
― Thomas Watson, The Doctrine of Repentance

“The worth and excellency of a soul is to be measured by the object of its love.”
― Henry Scougal, The Life of God in the Soul of Man

“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“A God whom we could understand exhaustively, and whose revelation of Himself confronted us with no mysteries whatsoever, would be a God in man's image, and therefore an imaginary God, not the God of the Bible at all.”
― J.I. Packer, Evangelism & the Sovereignty of God

“Late have I loved you, O Beauty ever ancient, ever new, late have I loved you! You were within me, but I was outside, and it was there that I searched for you. In my unloveliness I plunged into the lovely things which you created. You were with me, but I was not with you. Created things kept me from you; yet if they had not been in you they would have not been at all. You called, you shouted, and you broke through my deafness. You flashed, you shone, and you dispelled my blindness. You breathed your fragrance on me; I drew in breath and now I pant for you. I have tasted you, now I hunger and thirst for more. You touched me, and I burned for your peace.”
― Saint Augustine of Hippo

“It taught me that . . . there can be no true humility and no true compassion where there is no courage. ”
― Whittaker Chambers, Witness

“Regardless of a man's system, he has to live in God's world.”
― Francis A. Schaeffer, The God Who Is There

“In a fallen world, we must be willing to face the fact that however lovingly we preach the gospel, if a man rejects it he will be miserable. It is dark out there.”
― Francis A. Schaeffer, The God Who Is There

“Within Easy Company they had made the best friends they had ever had, or would ever have. They were prepared to die for each other; more important, they were prepared to kill for each other.”
― Stephen E. Ambrose, Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest

“In one of his last newsletters, Mike Ranney wrote: "In thinking back on the days of Easy Company, I'm treasuring my remark to a grandson who asked, 'Grandpa, were you a hero in the war?'
No,'" I answered, 'but I served in a company of heroes.”
― Stephen E. Ambrose, Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest

“Gandalf! I thought you were dead! But then I thought I was dead myself. Is everything sad going to come untrue? What's happened to the world?"
A great Shadow has departed," said Gandalf, and then he laughed and the sound was like music, or like water in a parched land; and as he listened the thought came to Sam that he had not heard laughter, the pure sound of merriment, for days upon days without count.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

“It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.”
― Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

“What mattered more than how hard a man rowed was how well everything he did in the boat harmonized with what the other fellows were doing. And a man couldn’t harmonize with his crewmates unless he opened his heart to them. He had to care about his crew.”
― Daniel James Brown, The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics