Tenney Quotes

#1. I think the real test is to plan something and be able to carry it out to the very end. Not that you're always enthusiastic; it's just that you have to get this thing out. It's not done with one's emotions; it's done with the head.

Richard Estes

#2. Inspiration always arrives unannounced.

Vanna Bonta

#3. You know when someone says, 'no offense,' I pointed out to him, 'the thing they say directly after that is always offensive

Ripley Patton

#4. Christianity is not a system of philosophy, nor a ritual, nor a code of laws; it is the impartation of a divine vitality. Without the way there is no going, without the truth there is no knowing, without life there is no living.

Merrill C. Tenney

#5. We shall never learn to know ourselves except by endeavoring to know God; for, beholding His greatness, we realize our own littleness; His purity shows us our foulness; and by meditating upon His humility we find how very far we are from being humble.

Teresa Of Avila

#6. God doesn't hide Himself from you so that He can't be found; He hides Himself from you so that He can be found.

Tommy Tenney

#7. I've come up with another formulation about style: that it's essentially a manifestation of a certain habitual set of limitations. It's what a composer does NOT do that defines a style.

James Tenney

#8. Fire doesn't fall on empty alters. There has to be a sacrifice on the alter for the fire to fall. If you want the fire of God, you must become the fuel of God.

Tommy Tenney

#9. Since when do you care about rules?"
"I'm a changed person."
"When did you change? Just now? 'Cuz I heard about your smack down in the cafeteria yesterday.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#10. With relationship comes access, and with intimacy comes influence.

Tommy Tenney

#11. Repentance prepares the way and makes the road of our hearts straight. Repentance builds up every low place and takes down every high place in our lives and church families. Repentance prepares us for His presence.

Tommy Tenney

#12. I do believe that long periods of silence and introspection do a great deal to enrich a person's spiritual and emotional dimensions.

Tommy Tenney

#13. God Chasers are people whose passion for being in His presence press them to chase the impossible in hopes that the uncatchable might catch them!

Tommy Tenney

#14. people don't want doctrine, they don't want tracts, and they don't want our feeble arguments; they just want Him! (When will we learn that if people can be argued into the faith, then they can just as easily be argued out of it as well?)

Tommy Tenney

#15. Being a servant will take you places where your talent will never take you.

Tommy Tenney

#16. There is much more of God available than we have ever known or imagined, but we have become so satisfied with where we are and what we have that we don't press in for God's best.

Tommy Tenney

#17. The word of the Lord to us is to stop seeking His benefits and seek Him. We are not to seek His hands any longer, but seek His face.

Tommy Tenney

#18. Motivation fades because it's emotion driven. Mobilization doesn't fade because it's ambition driven. Connect with your passion! - L. R. W. Lee

L.R.W. Lee

#19. We need Jesus every moment of every day. To say anything else is ludicrous.

Tommy Tenney

#20. It takes the glory of God to conceal a matter. It takes the honor of the king to seek out for it.

Tommy Tenney

#21. This concern for the poor is in the Gospel, it is within the tradition of the Church, it is not an invention of communism and it must not be turned into an ideology, as has sometimes happened before in the course of history.

Pope Francis

#22. I like to play with someone who can cover a lot of ground and someone with whom you can discuss the language at a reasonable level; otherwise it gets a bit frustrating.

Andy Summers

#23. We don't have to be defined by the things we did or didn't do in our past. Some people allow themselves to be controlled by regret. Maybe it's a regret, maybe it's not. It's merely something that happened. Get over it.

Pittacus Lore

#24. All of these people kept on being professional musicians and composers in the strictest sense.

James Tenney

#25. But a man with an experience is never at the mercy of a man with only an argument ... If we can lead people into the manifest presence of God, all false theological houses of cards will tumble down.

Tommy Tenney

#26. Break out of our boxes, Lord, and ruin everything that isn't of You!")

Tommy Tenney

#27. A true God chaser is not happy with just past truth; he must have present truth. God chasers don't want to just study from the moldy pages of what God has done; they're anxious to see what God is doing.

Tommy Tenney

#28. Whatever impresses you attracts you. Whatever you pursue becomes your purpose.

Tommy Tenney

#29. God is no respector of persons, but He does play favorites.

Tommy Tenney

#30. Those who are different, also have a tendency to think differently.

David Lagercrantz

#31. Your problems aren't too big
perhaps your worship is too small.

Tommy Tenney

#32. If we talk about pure abilities and skills, I
believe there should be no reason why women cannot play as well as men.

Susan Polgar

#33. God literally moves his throne from heaven. When this happens the church is building a chair, a seat, a place for God to come.

Tommy Tenney

#34. If we're not comparing the present moment to thoughts of the past or thoughts of the future, the present moment is actually perfect just as it is.

Matt Tenney

#35. Good things have become the enemy of the best things. I challenge you and release you right now as you read these words to let your heart be broken by the Holy Ghost. It's time for you to make your life holy.

Tommy Tenney

#36. God is more interested in developing your character than keeping you comfortable.

Tommy Tenney