John Townsend Quotes (1952-)

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About John Townsend

John Townsend (born June 1, 1952) is an American clinical psychologist, leadership consultant, and best-selling author. He has written or co-written more than 20 books including Boundaries, Who’s Pushing Your Buttons?, It’s Not My Fault, Leadership Beyond Reason: How Great Leaders Succeed by Harnessing the Power of Their Values, Feelings and Intuition, and, most recently, Where is God? published by Thomas Nelson.

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β€œThe essence of grace is that God is for you.”
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β€œGod wants to help us and will bear our burdens.”
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β€œGod has made Himself knowable through the Bible.”
β€œSome of us have young faith, some broken faith, and some mature faith.”
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β€œTrust in and value the benefit of God’s compassion and identification.”
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β€œWhat is faith? Faith is trusting God for your problems and for your life.”
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β€œIt is a comfort to us that Jesus didn’t suffer in silence or with a smile.”
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β€œConnecting with others during difficult times makes the trials more bearable.”
β€œI have noticed in this economic downturn that more of my friends talk about God…”
β€œOpen your heart and your sad feelings to Him and the safe people He brings to you.”
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β€œOur image of God, whom we can’t see, is deeply affected by people, whom we can see.”
β€œThe message of Scripture is that God wants us to connect both with Him and also with each other.”
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β€œβ€¦faith in God creates the possibility that even if our situations do not change, life can be good.”
β€œWe must exercise faith. We don’t pretend we’re fine. We don’t deny it. But we trust in Him.”
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β€œβ€¦the central message of the Bible is about God redeeming a humanity that is in trouble and suffering.”
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β€œβ€œWhere are You?” can be both a protest against a problem and a search for understanding and perspective.”
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β€œHe has always been here, and He is here now. He loves you and is working actively for your good in His own way.”
β€œβ€¦the big picture of our spiritual growth is not an event but the development of the habit of relationship with God.”
β€œIt is easy to think that we should put up a brave front and stay positive about all our struggles. But that is not the biblical model.”
β€œFaith grows when we assume the position of one who can’t do it all by himself. That means we go to God, follow Him, and ask Him for help.”
β€œWhatever our situation, we feel some sense of confusion, anxiety, and helplessness. At the same time, we think about God and wonder where He is.”
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β€œβ€¦there is something beyond our circumstances, and that is an emotional, from-the-heart connection to God, no matter what is going on in our lives.”
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β€œI can’t keep count of the times when I have seen how hard times make people much more relationally accessible than they were before their difficulty.”
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β€œDavid, the man after God’s own heart, got right to it and spilled out his guts about his experience: β€œHow long, O LORD? Will You forget me forever?””
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β€œOur tendency is to be strong, self-sufficient, and dependent on our own willpower, but rather than try harder, we should reach out to the God who is all-powerful…”

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John Townsend on Aeronautics 3 quotes

β€œ"Wal, I like flyin' well enough," He said, "but the' ain't sich a thundern' sight O' fun in't when ye come to light."”
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John Townsend on Tears

β€œThe tears of the young who go their way, last a day; But the grief is long of the old who stay.”
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John Townsend on Bluebirds

β€œ"The birds can fly, an' why can't I? Must we give in," says he with a grin, "That the bluebird an' phΕ“be are smarter 'n we be?"”
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John Townsend on Mind

β€œA flower more sacred than far-seen success Perfumes my solitary path; I find Sweet compensation in my humbleness, And reap the harvest of a quiet mind.”
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John Townsend on Air

β€œDarius was clearly of the opinion That the air is also man’s dominion, And that, with paddle or fin or pinion, We soon or late Shall navigate The azure, as now we sail the sea.”
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About John Townsend

John Townsend (born June 1, 1952) is an American clinical psychologist, leadership consultant, and best-selling author. He has written or co-written more than 20 books including Boundaries, Who’s Pushing Your Buttons?, It’s Not My Fault, Leadership Beyond Reason: How Great Leaders Succeed by Harnessing the Power of Their Values, Feelings and Intuition, and, most recently, Where is God? published by Thomas Nelson.