Tim Michiemo

“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

“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

“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

“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