Donehey Quotes

#1. There is no longer a fight between the secular and the sacred. If the Spirit dwells in us, then whether it be school or Starbucks, we make the world sacred, just by walking through the door. It's all sacred. It's all holy.

Mike Donehey

#2. The panther that has stalked you
since you were a child
is old now. No longer wild,
and tired of guarding the treasure
you yourself left behind -
blind and deaf, she will give it all to you
if you just let her go.

Pat Schneider

#3. Great melody over great riffs is, to me, the secret of it all.

Steven Tyler

#4. Good Friday was the worst Friday until Sunday.

Mike Donehey

#5. What is it?"
"You have to promise you'll never leave me."
"Okay."
Jordan grinned, delighted at her easy agreement.

Christy Reece

#6. When we ask God to draw near, what we're really asking is for Him to make us aware of Him.

Mike Donehey

#7. God's nature is love, because God is a relationship.

Mike Donehey

#8. Let yourself go. Let others in. This is the essence of being made in God's image.

Mike Donehey

#9. One of the reasons my father ... became a dentist was so he could always be home for dinner and spend weekends with his family. At one point he had thought about being a musician, but he said, I'm not going to do that because I'd be on the road all the time and I wouldn't be with my family.

Dean Ornish

#10. My motivation was an idea of being able to improve the conditions of life, to try to find a remedy to many of the problems facing the world. That's what led me into economics. I saw it as a way of helping people.

Maurice Allais

#11. Christianity was never meant to be a belief system, it's meant to be an encounter with a person.

Mike Donehey

#12. From the systems point of view, it is evident that one of the main obstacles to organizational change is the - largely unconscious - embrace by business leaders of the mechanistic approach to management.

Fritjof Capra

#13. You can bring tremendous value to your business, your customers, and yourself by becoming proficient at bringing in new business.

Mike Weinberg

#14. You can't live for God until you learn how to live because of God.

Mike Donehey

#15. Never be discontent with the life you've been dealt, be discontent with the way you're living it.

Mike Donehey

#16. Every time I'm not on a project, I'm writing or in the studio or doing gigs DJing.

Taryn Manning

#17. After all, it's me that needs to change, not my circumstances.

Mike Donehey

#18. We do battle with our minds and deceptive hearts, that we may might lay our souls down upon the grace of God.

Mike Donehey

#19. Only when we try to love God will we see our utter inability to do so. And only when we understand that inability, will we begin to be in awe of His great love toward us.

Mike Donehey

#20. Innovations succeed when failure is seen as a learning step to great success.

Pearl Zhu

#21. Never fear criticism. Use the information to grow your thinking power.

Debasish Mridha

#22. Anything that I want, I must also be ok with not having, otherwise it's idolatry.

Mike Donehey

#23. The heartthrob thing came in the late 1960s, and to be honest, it was fun! But I was very aware that well-known actors are two people - who you are and who other people think you are. Life only gets tricky if you confuse the two.

Robert Powell

#24. It's not about what we do, or what we feel, it's about what He did and what He felt. It's about what Christ has done for us.

Mike Donehey

#25. My first summer in college I worked in a fruit fly lab where I had two jobs: dissect the fruit fly larvae brains and incinerate the old tubes of flies.

Emily Oster

#26. If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.

Epictetus