T Quotes
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“Too often we forget that social and political movements don't happen overnight. They don't bring change immediately - you have to build a critical mass of understanding of the issues.”
“Too often we forget that the great men of faith reached the heights they did only by going through the depths.”
Source: In Two Minds: The Dilemma of Doubt & how to Resolve it
“Too often we get distracted by what is outside of our control. You can't do anything about yesterday. The door to the past has been shut and the key thrown away. You can do nothing about tomorrow. It is yet to come.
However, tomorrow is in large part determined by what you do today. So make today a masterpiece. You have control over that.”
Source: Wooden: A Legacy in Words and Images (EBOOK)
“Too often, we give God only the tired remnants of our time. If Jesus Christ had given us only the remnant of His time, we would all be on our way to that darkness that knows no morning. Christ gave us not the tattered leftovers of His time; He gave us all the time He had. But some of us give Him only the leftovers of our money and of our talents and never give our time fully to the Lord Jesus Christ who gave us all. Because He gave us all, we have what we have; and He calls us "as He is, so are we in this world." (1 John 4:17)”
Source: The Crucified Life: How to Live Out a Deeper Christian Experience
“Too often we give up due to temporal challenge.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“Too often we honor swagger and bluster and the wielders of force; too often we excuse those who are willing to build their own lives on the shattered dreams of others.”
“Too often we judge people based on our own backgrounds and experiences, but when you understand people's stories, it's easier to understand their demeanor.”
“Too often we jump to the conclusion that something is impossible simply because we cannot see the solution. No one knows enough to be a pessimist.”
“Too often we just do what makes sense to us and ask God to bless it.”
Source: The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical
“Too often we let others stamp a price tag on us, and we accept their appraisal of our worth, forgetting we are in fact priceless.”
Source: Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year
“Too often we look back on our lives with regret. What is done, is done. We learned lessons from those mistakes. Every day is a new beginning.”
Source: Each Day a New Beginning: Daily Meditations for Women
“Too often, we lose ourselves in the weight of society’s rules, family’s hopes, and culture’s demands. And somewhere along the way, we forget the most sacred thing :
to live authentically, to honor the quiet truth of what our soul longs for.”
“Too often, we love for the wrong reasons, when we think the right one comes along.”
“Too often we make it more about what stands before us, and we miss all that stands within us.”
“Too often we make the mistake of remembering what we should forget-our hurts, failures and disappointments -and we forget what we should remember-our victories, accomplishments and the times we have made it through.”
“Too often we measure everything and understand nothing. The three most important things you need to measure in a business are customer satisfaction, employee satisfaction, and cash flow. If you’re growing customer satisfaction, your global market share is sure to grow, too. Employee satisfaction gets you productivity, quality, pride, and creativity. And cash flow is the pulse—the key vital sign of a company.”
“Too often, we miss out on opportunities in this life because we were too busy waiting for them to fall into our lap that we missed them tapping on our shoulder.”
“Too often we only identify the crucial points in our lives in retrospect. At the time we are too absorbed in the fetid detail of the moment to spot where it is leading us. But not this time. I was experiencing one of my dad’s deafening moments. If my life could be understood as a meal of many courses (and let’s be honest, much of it actually was), then I had finished the starters and I was limbering up for the main event. So far, of course, I had made a stinking mess of it. I had spilled the wine. I had dropped my cutlery on the floor and sprayed the fine white linen with sauce. I had even spat out some of my food because I didn’t like the taste of it.
“But it doesn’t matter because, look, here come the waiters. They are scraping away the debris with their little horn and steel blades, pulled with studied grace from the hidden pockets of their white aprons. They are laying new tablecloths, arranging new cutlery, placing before me great domed wine glasses, newly polished to a sparkle. There are more dishes to come, more flavors to try, and this time I will not spill or spit or drop or splash. I will not push the plate away from me, the food only half eaten. I am ready for everything they are preparing to serve me. Be in no doubt; it will all be fine.” (pp.115-6)”
Source: Eating Crow: A Novel of Apology
“Too often we participate in the globalization of indifference. May we strive instead to live global solidarity.”
“Too often we pray to have patience, but we want it right now!”
“Too often, we say we are defeated by this or that sin. No, we are not defeated. We are simply disobedient. It might be good if we stop using the terms victory and defeat to describe our progress in holiness. Rather, we should use the terms obedience and disobedience. When I say I am defeated by some sin, I am unconsciously slipping out from under my responsibility. I am saying something outside of me has defeated me. But when I say I am disobedient, that places the responsibility for my sin squarely on me. We may in fact be defeated, but the reason we are defeated is because we have chosen to disobey.
We need to brace ourselves up and to realize that we are responsible for thoughts, attitudes, and actions. We need to reckon on the fact that we died to sin's reign, that it no longer has any dominion over us, that God has united us with the risen Christ in all His power and has given us the Holy Spirit to work in us. Only as we accept our responsibility and appropriate God's provisions will we make any progress in our pursuit of holiness.”
Source: The Pursuit of Holiness
“Too often we say what we wished we meant.”
“Too often we see the Bible through whatever lens we get from our culture.”
“Too often we seek justice for just us.”
“Too often we shape our public positions on the basis of our economic connections. That brings us dangerously close to economic determinism.”
“Too often we spend our time in the past or the future. We need to learn to live now - mentally as well as physically and spiritually.”
“Too often we take blessings for granted, like the sun, the air, health, and opportunity. Or we accept favors, honors, and privileges day after day as did the lepers their newfound health, without a word of thanks. We would thank the person who gives us a seat in the bus, the person who offers a ride, the friend who picks up the check after dinner, the person who does the baby-sitting, or the boy who cuts our lawn, but do we express gratitude to Him who gives us all?”
“Too often we take notes on writing, we think about writing but never do it. I want you to walk into the heart of the storm, written words dripping off hair, eyelids, hanging from hands.”
Source: Old Friend from Far Away: The Practice of Writing Memoir
“Too often we tell kids pleasant stories devoid of truth, and stories without truth are not good stories. Our audience deserves more from us.”
“Too often we tend to reduce what is strange to what is familiar. I intend to restore the familiar to the strange.”
“Too often we think about the green economy as an elite market niche, one in which affluent people spend more money to consume greener and cleaner products.”
“Too often we think we can act without explaining and take decisions without justifying them.”
“Too often we treat prayer as the preparation for the work of the church. Do you not see? Prayer IS the work of the church.”
“Too often we try to use God to change our circumstance, when God is trying to use our circumstance to change us.”
“Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest accomplishment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.”
“Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.”
“Too often we underestimate the power of a touch.”
“Too often we women try to tackle chaos that is not ours to fix.”
Source: Yes Please
“Too often we worry about how the others react-but it's YOUR reaction that they monitor.”
“Too often we're happy to receive thanks from the nonprofits we fund, accepting gratitude instead of feedback or performance measurements.”
“Too often we... enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.”
“Too often what are called "educated" people are simply people who have been sheltered from reality for years in ivy-covered buildings. Those whose whole careers have been spent in ivy-covered buildings, insulated by tenure, can remain adolescents on into their golden retirement years.”
“Too often what I dislike in others is more about what I am and less about what I dislike in them. Therefore, if I make the changes in myself I’m less likely to criticize the the faults in another.”
“Too often when a person's experience and the standard interpretation of Scripture don't add up we immediately blame the person instead of interrogating our understanding of Scripture. It is far easier to believe that someone else is wrong or does not have enough faith than it is to face the truth that it's possible that our interpretation doesn't match how reality works.”
Source: Context
“Too often when people hand us their cards, we quickly slip them into our pockets or purses without giving notice to what it says. Subliminally, it tells the other person that we don’t care or are not interested. Take a moment to demonstrate your interest; this will help your newfound relationship be off to a good start. Small actions can make a significant impact!”
Source: The Art of Communication: 8 Ways to Confirm Clarity & Understanding for Positive Impact
“Too often when people think of their journey into leadership, they envision a career path. What they should be thinking about is their own leadership development!”
“Too often when we're buying or building a house we do not consider each room. We are carried away by one charming feature and are blind to details that will give us trouble later on.”
“Too often words are used to envelope pithy and rank agendas in the garments of justice, piety and all things good. And the worst of it is not that I have fooled others through this abuse of syntax. Rather, the worst of it is that I’ve fooled myself.”
“Too often you couldn't mine the recollections that might keep you sane, but instead held close the memories that someday would kill you.”
Source: The Lioness
“Too often, a vast collection of possessions ends up possessing its owner.”