Thelen Quotes

#1. Pass on it if you're not passionate; for convictions create clear choices.

Ryan Lilly

#2. Happiness is an art mastered by the very few. Genuinely happy people are as rare as Christians who believe in God.

Albert Vigoleis Thelen

#3. I want to be a well-rounded, versatile performer.

Zac Efron

#4. Humoring them costs nothing and adds to happiness in a world in which happiness is always in short supply.

Robert A. Heinlein

#5. A decent man would stand out like a cactus on an ice floe.

Timothy Egan

#6. Small causes can often have large effects. Smaller causes can have even bigger effects, and the very biggest effects frequently have no cause at all. Witness, for example, the world. It was created out of nothing, and that has made it the worst calamity the world has ever seen.

Albert Vigoleis Thelen

#7. Talkativeness is a symptom of deep-seated pessimism. Without it there would be no pessimistic literature.

Albert Vigoleis Thelen

#8. I just have a serious problem with business for business' sake: this bottom-dollar mentality. I have a serious problem with evil.

Jeff Ament

#9. The challenge of history is to recover the past and introduce it to the present.

David P. Thelen

#10. To live faithfully in the time between the times is to walk a tightrope of moral discernment, claiming neither too much nor too little for God's transforming power within the community of faith.

Richard B. Hays