2008 Quotes

“Beyond all circumstance, beyond all fear.
See beyond what’s in front of you to the hope that is near.”
Loren Thornburg

“Take another look, try a different view.
There’s provision in this moment. If you’ll see with eyes anew.”
Loren Thornburg

“Patience precedes all great things.”
Loren Thornburg

“I can’t just fight when I think I’ll win it’s the end of all belief
and nothing has provoked it more than a possible defeat”
Sara Groves
“We have heard love is patient, love is kind. But have you heard this love is for you?”
Loren Thornburg

“What once was brown now green
What once seemed dead now alive
What once was dry now flowing
But only after it rains
Who once was sad now joyful
Who once was broken now restored
Who once was empty now filled
But only after it rains
When all seems dark hold on
When life’s a storm press through
For new things full of life are coming
But only after it rains”
Loren Thornburg

“Recognize your riches, discover your diamonds, take hold of your talents and stick to your strengths.”
Loren Thornburg

“With change comes challenge but through change comes greatness. For the butterfly would still be a caterpillar if not for the change.”
Loren Thornburg

“Let go of what was so you can grab hold of what’s to come.”
Loren Thornburg

“Hold on; hold fast; hold out. Patience is genius.”
Georges-Louis Leclerc Buffon
Fortified Focus

“Our lives are strengthened when we focus on that which gives us strength.”
Loren Thornburg

“Be persistent, whether the time is favorable or not.”
2 Timothy 4:2

“It may look different and not as you thought. But hold tight, for these trials and pains are bringing something different, even better than you thought.”
Loren Thornburg

“The deeper the roots the higher the reach.”
Starbucks

“Detoured but not off track, Delayed but making good time
Sometimes the long way’s faster And the shortest distance is not a line”
Loren Thornburg


“You can’t be free if you don’t reach for help.”
Natalie Grant…In Better Hands

“I don’t want to spend my whole life asking,
‘what if I had given everything?’
instead of going through the motions.”
Matthew West…The Motions

“Experience life today in all of the fullness of which you were created to do”
Loren Thornburg

“Take care in where you’re looking. Your eyes direct your path. Distractions will divert you. But vision will direct you.”
Loren Thornburg

“Not as you thought, not as you hoped, not as you wanted, not at you planned.
It’s better, it’s greater, it’s perfect. What once seemed failed is more.”
Loren Thornburg

“…much can be remembered and learned by looking back, but only for a visit, not an extended stay…”
William Young, The Shack

“Life takes a bit of time and a lot of relationship.”
The Shack


“Go Big, Go Full, Go Now, Just Go”
Loren Thornburg

“Our power lies not in our perfection but in our pursuit.”
Loren Thornburg

“Not because you don’t fear,
not because you don’t worry,
and not because you don’t face difficulty,
but because there is courage for the fear,
there is peace for the worry and
there is hope for the difficulty.”
Loren Thornburg

“The battle is often heard before it is seen”
Loren Thornburg

“Not because there’s no opposition
and not because there’s no reason to fear.
But because there’s a reason that’s bigger,
And there’s a hope that is greater
that is how we can all persevere”
Loren Thornburg

“The measure of your worth has nothing to do with the balance in your bank account.”
T.C Powell

“If we wait to see how it will all turn out we will miss the blessings along the way.”
Loren Thornburg

"There may be reason to fear, there may be reason to worry, there may be reason to give up...BUT LOOK! There is reason to trust, there is reason to hope, there is reason to persevere...that's greater!"Loren Thornburg

“Prepare now so you can prosper later”
Loren Thornburg

“Faith is believing regardless of anything else”
Loren Thornburg

“We are builders. Some with their hands, but all with our lives.”
Loren Thornburg

“The building is only as strong as the foundation.”

“Hope is as strong as where you put it”
Loren Thornburg

“Do you have fears or do your fears have you?”
Loren Thornburg

“When you figure out love is all that matters after all
it sure makes everything else seem so small.”
Carrie Underwood, So Small

Though seasons change hope remains
Loren Thornburg

“Though the flames rage and the fire is fierce, the burning will stop, the smoke will clear and we will once again find we can see.”
Loren Thornburg

“There is wonder around you there is greatness to see.
In your midst lies amazement if you’ll stop to perceive.”
Loren Thornburg

“When one wants to trust one must first be willing.”
Loren Thornburg

“Peace is always an option.”
Loren Thornburg

“Sometimes the best thing you can do is nothing.”
Loren Thornburg

“Hope remains for those counting on Jesus when the countdown is over.”
Loren Thornburg