Brennan Manning Quotes

A saint is not someone who is good but who experiences the goodness of God.

Brennan Manning

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• I am not going to say I have been a saint. I have not been a perfect man. None is perfect but the Father, which is in Heaven.

  

  Ralph Abernathy
  • Father
  • Perfect
  • Heaven

• All of my books are based in some way on my personal experiences, or the experiences of members of my family, or the stories kids would tell me in school.

  

  Patricia Reilly Giff
  • Family
  • Kids
  • Way

• Criticism is valuable... and self-congratulatory experiences are not.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Criticism
  • Experiences

• Well, I'm grateful for all the experiences that I've had.

  

  Laura Benanti
  • Grateful
  • Experiences
  • Well

• New experiences give you new perspectives on life.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Life
  • You
  • Experiences

• We did a different show every night. We'd open a show, and then two weeks later we'd open the next show. And two weeks later we'd open the third show until we had all eight running. And it was just one of the richest experiences I'd ever had in my theatrical life.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Life
  • Different
  • Night

• All my songs come from me because I only seem able to write about myself and my experiences.

  

  Laura Marling
  • Me
  • Myself
  • Experiences

• I'm much more interested in living specific experiences in films.

  

  Walter Salles
  • Living
  • More
  • Experiences

• I think I can see more clearly now - about how the pattern of past experiences has shaped who I am and the characters I have played - and I'm grateful for that.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Characters
  • Experiences
  • Pattern

• My mom was a saint. She taught me to be terminally nice.

  

  Iggy Pop
  • Me
  • Nice
  • Mom

• My life. The life I'm living that's where all my inspiration comes from. Real life experiences.

  

  Fred Durst Limp Bizkit
  • Life
  • Inspiration
  • Experiences

• I get my inspiration from everyday life, things people my age are going through in life, good and bad experiences.

  

  Manika
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• If you are going to be used by God, He will take you through a number of experiences that are not meant for you personally at all. They are designed to make you useful in His hands, and to enable you to understand what takes place in the lives of others.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Understand
  • Experiences

• I have a portrait of Saint Thomas More in my office.

  

  Andrew Cuomo
  • Office
  • Saint
  • Portraits

• That's the great thing about today, having smartphones to stay in touch and share experiences. Knowing that whilst there may be thousands of miles between you, it's almost like they're there. That's the coolest thing, and that's how I stay in touch with the people that are important to me.

  

  Lewis Hamilton
  • People
  • Great
  • Important

• What I know for sure is that your life is a multipart series of all your experiences- and each experience is created by your thoughts, intentions, and actions to teach you what you need to know. Your life is a journey of learning to love yourself first and then extending that love to others in every encounter.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Learning

• To know that nothing happens in God's world apart from God's will may frighten the godless, but it stabilizes the saints.

  

  J. I. Packer
  • World
  • God
  • May

• Holy people glory, not in their holiness, but in Christ's cross; for the holiest saint is never more than a justified sinner and never sees himself in any other way.

  

  J. I. Packer
  • People
  • Saint
  • Holiness

• The purest, most beautiful and appealing experiences of life: romance, love, marriage, and parenthood.

  

  Boyd K. Packer
  • Love
  • Marriage
  • Experiences

• I think the biggest misconception about me probably is ... I don't prey on the weak. I ain't a bully, but I ain't no saint, either.

  

  Suge Knight
  • Weak
  • Saint
  • Prey

• When we assumed the Soldier, we did not lay aside the Citizen; and we shall most sincerely rejoice with you in the happy hour when the establishment of American Liberty, upon the most firm and solid foundations shall enable us to return to our Private Stations in the bosom of a free, peacefully and happy Country.

  

  George Washington
  • Country
  • Liberty
  • Soldier

• Steve Jobs was notoriously blunt about products he found wanting, but his attack on Flash - Adobe's popular technology for playing multimedia content inside a browser - was particularly vicious. Claiming it was buggy and insecure, Jobs banned it from the iPad.

  

  Evgeny Morozov
  • Technology
  • Found
  • Insecure

• A saint is not someone who is good but who experiences the goodness of God.

  

  Brennan Manning
  • Experiences
  • Saint
  • Goodness Of God