Tim Kimmel Quotes

#1. Harry Truman wrote scathing letters, but he almost never sent them.

Robert Dallek

#2. Calling a child "rebellious" has the equivalent effect of calling a child that is struggling in school "stupid." It becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Tim Kimmel

#3. On the contrary, if grandparents want to make a positive difference in their grandchildren's lives, they must have a plan.

Tim Kimmel

#4. My mother thought Hollywood was a den of iniquity, and people came to terrible bad ends there.

Kitty Carlisle

#5. You're never so bad you can't have a Savior, no matter how much you've sinned.

Tim Kimmel

#6. My job as a parent is a temporary responsibility with eternal consequences.

Tim Kimmel

#7. Fear based parenting is the surest way to create intimidated children.

Tim Kimmel

#8. Our sins are never too great for God to forgive.

Tim Kimmel

#9. I know that a lot of Christian kids rebel. But as I said earlier, I'm convinced that most of them don't really want to. They just haven't been given a better alternative. The only true antidote for a life of rebellion is a life worth living.

Tim Kimmel

#10. I have done a lot of work for affordable housing, rental housing. I understand the rap on me and other liberals is, oh, we push poor people into homeownership. And it's exactly the opposite of the case. We were trying to prevent those kinds of bad loans.

Barney Frank

#11. Love is the commitment of my will to your needs and best interests, regardless of the cost.

Tim Kimmel

#12. I don't want to look like a weirdo. I'll just go with the muumuu.

Homer

#13. Living a good life may keep you out of jail, but it cannot keep you out of hell.

Tim Kimmel

#14. Children who know they are loved, know they have a purpose, and know they have a hope are prepared for anything this world wants to dish up.

Tim Kimmel

#15. The generation of atmosphere, the aura of the uncanny, is one of the most important secrets of magic. It contributes to the willing suspension of disbelief, the feeling that, within the circle, or in the presence of the magical shrine, anything may happen.

Doreen Valiente

#16. Your words, your schedule, your choices, your obedience, the way you savor your victories and the way you swallow your defeats all help to define your life. It is this definition that your children rely on most as they seek to chart their own future.

Tim Kimmel

#17. The issue isn't
nor should it ever be
how weak our child is, but rather how strong our God is.

Tim Kimmel

#18. Two infinities: the one that stretches to the beginning but never touches-when you halve and halve and halve, infinitely-and then the one that spreads out into the endless, endless future, the endless, endless, distance.The set of infinities that is itself infinite.

David Levithan

#19. Appreciation is the purest vibration that exists on the planet today.

Esther Hicks

#20. It's a lot easier for our children to look forward to a hopeful future if they have the confidence that we are doing all we can, while they are in our care, to groom them for the future.

Tim Kimmel

#21. Our children's rebellion is not the problem. It is the symptom. Why they are rebelling is the problem. And unless we address the "why," the external things we do in reaction to their rebellion will not make much of a difference.

Tim Kimmel

#22. Some of your children's rebellion against your spiritual lifestyle might be a necessary step in their finding an authentic relationship with God. But beware: If they find it, it might look quite different from what you've always thought it should be.

Tim Kimmel

#23. Don't just show kindness in passing or to be courteous. Show it in depth, show it with passion, and expect nothing in return. Kindness is not just about being nice; it's about recognizing another human being who deserves care and respect.

Colin Powell

#24. I couldn't get that same feeling during the day, with my hands in dirty dish water and the hard sun showing up the dirtiness on the roof tops. And after a time, even at night, the feeling of God didn't last.

Frances Farmer

#25. Do they sense it, these dead writers, when their books are read? Does a pinprick of light appear in their darkness? Is their soul stirred by the feather touch of another mind reading theirs? I do hope so.

Diane Setterfield

#26. You're beautiful and wild and kind, and I can't stop thinking about you." A sunny, foolish smile breaks across his face. "It's wrong and stupid and wonderful, Zahra. I didn't mean for it to happen, but here I am. I love you.

Jessica Khoury

#27. All painting, beginning with Impressionism, is antiscientific, even Seurat. I was interested in introducing the precise and exact aspect of science, which hadn't often been done, or at least hadn't been talked about very much.

Marcel Duchamp

#28. I like to make a distinction between solitude and being alone. Alone signifies loneliness, whereas solitude means really connecting with yourself.

Deepak Chopra

#29. Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man. For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.

Solomon

#30. The cafe door opened. A young man in dusty white leathers entered, and the wind blew in empty crisp packets and newspapers and ice cream wrappers in with him. They danced around his feet like excited children, then fell exhausted to the floor.

Neil Gaiman

#31. Getting into heaven has nothing to do with what we do for Christ, but rather what He has already done for us.

Tim Kimmel

#32. Every day life must always be lived against the backdrop of eternity.

Tim Kimmel