Tim Challies Quotes

#1. Productivity - true productivity - will never be better or stronger than the foundation you build it upon.

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#2. The truth is of course that what one calls the interruptions are precisely one's real life - the life God is sending one day by day; what one calls one's "real life" is a phantom of one's own imagination.

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#3. God calls you to productivity, but he calls you to the right kind of productivity. He calls you to be productive for his sake, not your own.

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#4. You need to structure and organize your life so that you can do the maximum good for others and thus bring the maximum glory to God.

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#5. Christ gave up his life for you so that you could have a genuine zeal to do good works. Paul calls upon Christians to be good works zealots or good works extremists - to be absolutely committed in every way to doing good for others.

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#6. Each of us has had plenty of experience with technology, but few of us have the theoretical or theological tools to make sense of the consequences of our use of technology.

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#7. There is no task in life that cannot be done for God's glory.

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#8. God honored Solomon's request because he was pleased with what Solomon had asked. This teaches us that God values discernment and honors those who seek after it.

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#9. God created you so he could receive glory from you and receive glory through you.

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#10. Motivation gets you started, but habit keeps you going. You need to use those times of high motivation to build habits and to embed those habits in a system. That way, when motivation wanes, the system will keep you going.

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#11. You glorify God when you do good works. The

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#12. No amount of organization and time management will compensate for a lack of Christian character, not when it comes to this great calling of glory through good - bringing glory to God by doing good to others.

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#13. Productivity is effectively stewarding your gifts, talents, time, energy, and enthusiasm for the good of others and the glory of God.

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#14. A home for everything, and like goes with like....If you consistently apply [this principle] all over your life, your life will be and remain organized.

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#15. Remember your created limits. So much of workaholism is a defiance of the physical limitations that God our creator has imposed upon us.

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#16. When you cry out against a God who punishes people in a place like hell, you cry out against the God who has revealed Himself in the pages of Scripture. You cry out against His goodness, holiness, and justice; and all the while you minimize your own sinfulness or the sinfulness of others.

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#17. Productivity - will never be better or stronger than the foundation you build it upon. So

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#18. You do not exist in this world to get things done. You exist to glorify God by doing good to others.

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#19. A half-hearted commitment provides halfway results, while

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#20. We may well find that if we are to fulfill God's mandate on earth, we will need to communicate less often so we can communicate more. We will need to forsake the ease and the pace of quantity for the reflective significance of quality.

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#21. Productivity is not what will bring purpose to your life, but what will enable you to excel in living out your existing purpose.

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#22. You haven't begun to live a focused and productive life until you have said no to great opportunities that just do not fit your mission. There are many good things in this world that will go undone or that will have to be done by someone else.

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#23. The simple fact is, you are not the point of your life. You are not the star of your show. If you live for yourself, your own comfort, your own glory, your own fame, you will miss out on your very purpose. God created you to bring glory to him.

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#24. If you are a student and apply yourself to your studies, you are doing a good work that brings glory to God, because what you learn can and will be used someday to benefit other people. If

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#25. And Richard Phillips writes, Theology bores today's Christians, which is another way of saying we are bored with God himself.

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