Timothy Tennent Quotes

#1. I'm grateful that music has been a place where I've found freedom.

Valerie June

#2. As publishers focus on blockbusters, they steadily lose interest in little-known authors from other countries.

Stephen Kinzer

#3. I have observed, on board a steamer, how men and women easily give way to their instinct for flirtation, because water has the power of washing away our sense of responsibility, and those who on land resemble the oak in their firmness behave like floating seaweed when on the sea.

Rabindranath Tagore

#4. Read something of interest every day - something of interest to you, not to your teacher or your best friend or your minister/rabbi/priest. Comics count. So does poetry. So do editorials in your school newspaper. Or a biography of a rock star. Or an instructional manual. Or the Bible.

Jane Yolen

#5. Every subject at some phase of its development should possess, what is for the individual concerned with it, an aesthetic quality.

John Dewey

#6. In Adam we became identified with guilt, fear, and shame. In Christ we are now identified with forgiveness, confidence, and honor.

Timothy C. Tennent

#7. We need a pedagogy free from fear and focused on the magic of children's innate quest for information and understanding.

Sugata Mitra

#8. The optimist says, "The glass is half full."
The pessimist says, "The glass is half empty."
The rationalist says, "This glass is twice as big as it needs to be."
That makes it clear as glass.

Thomas Cathcart

#9. I am many things. Stupid is not one of them. Your wrath is impressive for a mortal.

Lisa Kessler

#10. The second theological perspective that influenced many of the Reformers was the belief that the Great Commission passages already had been fulfilled during the lifetime of the apostles.

Timothy Tennent