Tim Hansel Quotations

One definition of a coward is simply, someone who makes a lot of excuses. Most of us have enough excuses to last a lifetime. The sooner we let go of them and get on with living, the better off we are.

Pain is inevitable, but misery is optional. We cannot avoid pain, but we can avoid joy.

The disillusionment with our own abilities is, perhaps, one of the most important things that can ever happen to us.

Grace is the central invitation to life and the final word. It's the beckoning nudge and the overwhelming, undeserved mercy that urges us to change and grow, and then gives us the power to pull it off.

God has spoken very boldly about his desire to be a presence in our lives. If I want to heal the ache and loneliness in my own life, one of the things I need to do is get away, alone with God. . . . In the silence God will speak to you most powerfully. Too often his words to us get muffled, lost, or covered by the crowd of many noises both inside and outside of us. We must have a quiet heart in order to hear God's distinctive message to us.

One of the ways that our faith expresses itself is by our ability to be still, to be present, and not to panic or lose perspective. God still does his best work in the most difficult of circumstances.

Our theology must become biography.

Learning patience takes a lot of patience!

Life becomes precious and more special to us when we look for the little everyday miracles and get excited about the privileges of simply being human

It's not so much what happens to us, as what happens in us that counts.

Most of us have enough excuses to last a lifetime. The sooner we let go of them and get on with living, the better off we are.

I believe that pain and suffering can either be a prison or a prism.

There is no better education than your own failures, if you've the eyes to see. We must have the courage to fail. It's evidence that we're risking to be our best.

It takes time to be a good father. It takes effort - trying, failing, and trying again.

All of our theology must eventually become biography.

Life is really fun, if only we gave it a chance.

Necessity is the author of change.