Joe Thorn Quotes

#1. The great hope of the Christian is not heaven, which is often conceived of as a disembodied existence in the spiritual realm. The great hope of the Christian is the resurrection.

Joe Thorn

#2. Of all there is to know in this world, of all the mysteries and complexities of life, the knowledge of God and his ways are the most critical.

Joe Thorn

#3. The Spirit's work of revival does not come about when God's people practice inventive or radical exercises; it comes through the normal means of grace God has given his people.

Joe Thorn

#4. Why the mad hair, girl?"
"Because damn you," growled Thorn, "that's why.

Joe Abercrombie

#5. It's interesting because I haven't done a lot of period work in the past, but I always wanted to because I'm interested in history.

Colm Meaney

#6. Your refusal to forgive one who has sinned against you us a manifestation of hypocrisy - a telltale sign that either you have not experenced God's forgiving grace, or that you take such grace for granted.

Joe Thorn

#7. My work is less violent because we tend to write what we want to read ... and I'm not that interested in gruesome books. Any violence, to fit in well with a crime novel, has to have compassion.

Ann Cleeves

#8. the gospel itself is the climax of all theology.

Joe Thorn

#9. You are as wise as you are beautiful, Thorn Bathu.

Joe Abercrombie

#10. You are never just living for the moment. You are living for eternity, and your life has the potential to prove fruitful not only for yourself, but also for many others.

Joe Thorn

#11. To say that God is love is not to romanticize his character or soften his holiness. In fact, the love of God means very little apart from his holiness and justice. The love of God is magnified in that he loves the unholy and pours out blessings upon those deserving just punishment for sin.

Joe Thorn

#12. In life, as in art, talking vitiates doing.

Philip Larkin

#13. Instead of suffering fruitlessly through your trials, be sure to keep your eyes fixed on your heavenly Father who has good purposes in all you experience. Check yourself for sin that has not been dealt with. Lean on the grace and goodness of God, and you will find relief.

Joe Thorn

#14. In this life, as you work for the glory of Jesus and the good of others, you should do so with an eye to his return. It will lead to earnestness and create an urgency in your life to make the most of all your days.

Joe Thorn

#15. If you have a problem with someone you have to go after them, and it's not necessarily to teach that person a lesson, it's to teach all the people that are watching a lesson that you don't take crap, and if you do take crap, you're just not going to well

Donald Trump

#16. For when you suffer, you can be sure that one of two things is happening. Either God is teaching you to rely on his grace and sufficiency through your pain, or he is teaching you to return to his grace and sufficiency through your pain.

Joe Thorn

#17. I really haven't been cognitive of gas prices. It wasn't until I filled up my husband's Toyota Prius Hybrid that I had a moment of understanding of how people who drive gas cars feel.

Alexandra Paul

#18. Your views of God and self are not small ideas of little consequence.

Joe Thorn

#19. His eyelashes were so long and thick they looked artificial. Black plastic reeds fringing two green, glacial pools.

Sylvia Plath

#20. At times God will delay granting you relief in order to draw you closer to himself. He might want to teach you just how helpless you really are and how all-sufficient he really is. Sometimes God will allow you to suffer for a season to test and strengthen your faith.

Joe Thorn

#21. I think I am upsetting the coach.

Yao Ming

#22. In life when we feel we have reached a limit, that is when the true battle begins. Just when you despair and think it is impossible to go any further, will you become apathetic, or will you say it's not over and stand up with an unyielding spirit? The battle is decided by this single determination.

Daisaku Ikeda

#23. Your suffering is real, but those who trust the Lord will find life even in the midst of death.

Joe Thorn

#24. Come, Sleep; O Sleep! the certain knot of peace,
The baiting-place of wit, the balm of woe,
The poor man's wealth, the prisoner's release,
Th' indifferent judge between the high and low;
With shield of proof shield me from out the prease
Of those fierce darts Despair at me doth throw.

Philip Sidney

#25. If you could kill a man by frowning at his back, the Breaker of Swords would have fallen bloody through the Last Door that day, but a frown is no blade, and Thorn's hatred cut no one but her.

Joe Abercrombie

#26. If there is any test that can be applied to movies, it's that the good ones never make you feel virtuous.

Pauline Kael

#27. You are lucky, Thorn. You are very lucky."
"Doubtless. Not every girl gets to be stabbed through the face."
"And by a duke of royal blood too!

Joe Abercrombie

#28. Keep yourselves from idols." The warning isn't given to them because it wasn't a real danger or because there was an off chance someone might fall into idolatry. It was given because this is our root problem on any given day. It is what we, especially as followers of Jesus, must fight against.

Joe Thorn

#29. Vialine counted the points off on her small fingers. "So quickness to strike, and cleverness, and aggression without conscience, honor or pity."
Thorn held up her empty hands. "They've got me everything I have.

Joe Abercrombie

#30. Water has never known thirst.

Marty Rubin

#31. The only real security is not insurance or money or a job, not a house and furniture paid for, or a retirement fund, and never is it another person. It is the skill and humor and courage within, the ability to build your own fires and find your own peace.

Audrey Sutherland

#32. The one thing she hated worse than being fussed over was being ignored.

Joe Abercrombie

#33. To you, W. B. Yeats, good praiser, wholesome dispraiser, heavy-handed judge, open-handed helper of us all, I offer a play of my plays for every night of the week, because you like them, and because you have taught me my trade.

Lady Gregory

#34. Faithful servants have a way of knowing answered prayer when they see it, and a way of not giving up when they don't.

Max Lucado