Tim Hansel Quotes

#1. I believe that pain and suffering can either be a prison or a prism.

Tim Hansel

#2. The disillusionment with our own abilities is, perhaps, one of the most important things that can ever happen to us.

Tim Hansel

#3. I'm happy with the amount of success I've achieved. I feel like I'm getting better every day and I'm always learning. I don't take anything for granted and I've gained a deeper perspective on things.

Bill Kirchen

#4. Grace is the central invitation to life and the final word. It's the beckoning nudge and the overwhelming, undeserved mercy that urges us to change and grow, and then gives us the power to pull it off.

Tim Hansel

#5. All of our theology must eventually become biography.

Tim Hansel

#6. A cloudy day or a little sunshine have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most recent blessings or misfortunes.

Joseph Addison

#7. I believed that, in a situation where the community that I came from were being treated like second- and third-class citizens, that I had a responsibility to fight back against it. And I don't apologise to anybody for having done that. I think it was the right thing to do.

Martin McGuinness

#8. There is no better education than your own failures, if you've the eyes to see. We must have the courage to fail. It's evidence that we're risking to be our best.

Tim Hansel

#9. Go fuck yourself! - Dan said genuinely pissed off.
Izzy
I've found that I'm a little shy for such blatantly public display of self-affection. Besides, I like to be wined and dined before I have my way with myself. I'm an old-fashioned kind of guy.

Suzanne Brockmann

#10. It's not so much what happens to us, as what happens in us that counts.

Tim Hansel

#11. Necessity is the author of change.

Tim Hansel

#12. Most of us have enough excuses to last a lifetime. The sooner we let go of them and get on with living, the better off we are.

Tim Hansel

#13. The happy ending is hardly important, though we may be glad it's there. The real joy is knowing that if you felt the trouble in the story, your kingdom isn't dead.

Lynda Barry

#14. Learning patience takes a lot of patience!

Tim Hansel

#15. Pain is inevitable, but misery is optional.

Tim Hansel

#16. It takes time to be a good father. It takes effort - trying, failing, and trying again.

Tim Hansel

#17. Actors, after all, dream.

Nastassja Kinski

#18. Life is really fun, if only we gave it a chance.

Tim Hansel

#19. One of the ways that our faith expresses itself is by our ability to be still, to be present, and not to panic or lose perspective. God still does his best work in the most difficult of circumstances.

Tim Hansel

#20. Life becomes precious and more special to us when we look for the little everyday miracles and get excited about the privileges of simply being human

Tim Hansel

#21. Our theology must become biography.

Tim Hansel

#22. Communication is not only about words and numbers. Some thoughts can't be properly expressed in these ways at all. We also think in sounds and images, in movement and gesture, which gives rise to our capacities for music, visual arts, dance, and theater in all their variations.

Ken Robinson

#23. Climate change is a reality.

Joseph Stiglitz