“We all have a basic motivational drive, every human heart has something that drives them. It gets us through life. It moves us to do what we do. And for most of us, I believe, it is fear. —Tim Keller”
― The True Measure of a Man, How Perceptions of Success, Achievement & Recognition Fail Men in Difficult Times
― The True Measure of a Man, How Perceptions of Success, Achievement & Recognition Fail Men in Difficult Times
“The Bible is the inevitable outcome of God’s continuous speech. It is the infallible declaration of His mind for us, put into our familiar human words.”
― The Pursuit of God
― The Pursuit of God
“Choose for yourselves today the god whom you will serve: the god of wealth, the god of prestige and power, the god of pleasure, the god of achievement. But as for me and my family, we will serve the Lord (Joshua 24:15, author paraphrase).”
― The True Measure of a Man, How Perceptions of Success, Achievement & Recognition Fail Men in Difficult Times
― The True Measure of a Man, How Perceptions of Success, Achievement & Recognition Fail Men in Difficult Times
“The meek man is not a human mouse afflicted with a sense of his own inferiority. Rather, he may be in his moral life as bold as a lion and as strong as Samson; but he has stopped being fooled about himself. He has accepted God’s estimate of his own life. He knows he is as weak and helpless as God has declared him to be, but paradoxically, he knows at the same time that he is in the sight of God of more importance than angels. In himself, nothing; in God, everything.”
― The Pursuit of God
― The Pursuit of God
“Rowing is like a beautiful duck. On the surface it is all grace, but underneath the bastard’s paddling like mad!”
― The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
― The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
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