Thabiti Quotes

#1. If churches are to be healthy, then pastors and teachers must be committed to discovering the meaning of Scripture and allowing that meaning to drive the agenda with their congregations.

Thabiti M. Anyabwile

#2. If we allow ourselves even for a moment to contemplate the vast weight of suffering in the world, we will easily be overwhelmed with grief. This is why we develop the habit and self-protective instinct of overlooking the suffering around us.

Thabiti M. Anyabwile

#3. Fools despise wisdom and instruction" (Prov. 1:7), but it is the nature of true godliness, maturity, and health in church members to accept the loving instruction and rebuke of others.

Thabiti M. Anyabwile

#4. As we tune our ears to the kind of preaching that makes the primary point of the sermon the primary point of a particular passage of Scripture, we grow accustomed to listening to God.

Thabiti M. Anyabwile

#5. Thinking for the Sake of Global Faithfulness: Encountering Islam with the Mind of Christ THABITI ANYABWILE

John Piper

#6. While it's a fact that a voice begins with natural talent, any talent must be nurtured, cajoled, wrestled with pampered, challenged, and, at every turn, examined.

Renee Fleming

#7. expositional listening protects the gospel and our lives from corruption.

Thabiti M. Anyabwile

#8. My mother saved our home with a minimum wage job. But in the 1960s, a minimum wage job would support a family of three above the poverty line. Not today. Not even close. I understood right then that people can work hard, they can play by the rules, and they can still take a hard smack.

Elizabeth Warren

#9. Some falls are means the happier to arise.

William Shakespeare

#10. In all things essential, unity; in all things nonessential, liberty; and in all things, love.

Thabiti M. Anyabwile

#11. But perhaps the most compelling benefit for doing biblical theology is that it deepens our understanding of and facility with the gospel.

Thabiti M. Anyabwile

#12. I don't know that I'm 'hangdog'. That suggests someone skulking around, unengaged. I'm not. I'm 'engaged', believe me. I have just got a slightly sad face.

Stephen Rea

#13. Each time a new baby is born there is a possibility of reprieve. Each child is a new being, a potential prophet, a new spiritual prince, a new spark of light precipitated into the outer darkness.

R.D. Laing

#14. What distinguished man from the brutes was his freedom. When,

Ford Madox Ford

#15. I always try to teach by example and not force my ideas on a young musician. One of the reasons we're here is to be a part of this process of exchange.

Dizzy Gillespie

#16. The more you gaze into her eyes, the more you will see what you want, what is actually inside your heart. And then she will suddenly vanish and you will wonder how you lost her. So you must close the door on your emotions. Eros is not a painter and he often spoils our work.

Michael Harrington

#17. You can't live on the hope of a television contract and play in a stadium with nobody there.

Fergus McCann

#18. Maybe, just maybe, two broken people could manage to create something whole.

Nalini Singh