Thoennes Quotes & Sayings

A time of terror comes. A dark time. The graves continue to open and the Dead King prepares to sail.But the world holds worse things than dead men. A dark time comes. — Mark Lawrence

Often we can't reach what is in front of us until we let go what is behind. Don't let your struggle become your identity. — Chris Vonada

Humans become like what they adore. The Spirit works to foster adoration of Christ so that people will become like him. — Erik Thoennes

People do really stupid things while driving. — Astro Teller

When you meditate properly you are able to take your mind and merge it with the cosmos. Essentially, this causes your IQ to increase. — Frederick Lenz

I'm dreaming of a month of Sundays. — Steven Herrick

We must not think too unkindly even of the east wind. It is not, perhaps, a wind to be loved, even in its benignest moods; but there are seasons when I delight to feel its breath upon my cheek, though it be never advisable to throw open my bosom and take it into my heart, as I would its gentle sisters of the south and west. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

I started in a business background, but then it was like, 'you know, I can't do math,' so I changed it to a liberal arts degree and got my Bachelor of Arts in Communications and it made sense. — Jeff Dunham

You decide. You be the judge. It says You are welcome regardless of severity. Severity is in the eye of the sufferer, it says. Pain is pain. — David Foster Wallace

Gratitude is the heart of humility, and humility is the path to peace, love, and understanding. — Justin Young

There's this idea that to live out of conformity with how I feel is hypocrisy; but that's a wrong definition of hypocrisy. To live out of conformity to what I believe is hypocrisy. To live in conformity with what I believe, in spite of what I feel, isn't hypocrisy; it's integrity. — Erik Thoennes

Johnny Bench
befriended me my first year in the big leagues. He took me under his wing during my first All-Star Game and we've been friends ever since. He's one guy I've tried to emulate and I'll always compare myself to Johnny (Bench). — Gary Carter

Meaningful local church involvement is not an optional spiritual discipline; it is the essential context within which believers are intended to find Christ and grow in him. — Erik Thoennes

When the beaded curtain parts with a sound like rain, it is Marco who enters the fortune-teller's chamber, and Isobel immediately flips her veil from her face, the impossibly thin black silk floating back over her head like mist. — Erin Morgenstern

The ultimate goal of all of life is to know and love God, make him known, and thereby glorify him. — Erik Thoennes

And once I knew a meditative rose That never raised its head from bowing down, Yet drew its inspiration from the stars. It bloomed and faded here beside the road, And, being a poet, wrote on empty air With fragrance all the beauty of its soul. — Henry Abbey

Without the resurrection, the cross is meaningless. — Billy Graham