Brennan Manning Quotes

The beauty of the ragamuffin gospel lies in the insight it offers into Jesus: the essential tenderness of His heart, His way of looking at the world, His mode of relating to you and me. 'If you really want to understand a man, don't just listen to what he says, but watch what he does.

Brennan Manning

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• Beauty
• Gospel
• Tenderness

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• I find great beauty in songs with a creative interpretation, but most people generally don't get that, and go for the simple songs, but I prefer something a bit more complicated, which is more meaningful to the creator.

  

  Irwin Thomas
  • People
  • Great
  • Simple

• Nothing is really typical of my efforts... I'm simply casting about for better ways to crystallise and capture certain strong impressions (involving the elements of time, the unknown, cause and effect, fear, scenic and architectural beauty, and other seemingly ill-assorted things) which persist in clamouring for expression.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Time
  • Strong
  • Fear

• I must've been a bird in some previous lifetime. I feel like I'm called to flying - the convenience and the beauty of it. That feeling of soaring would be empowering.

  

  Rachel Keller
  • Feeling
  • Beauty
  • Bird

• I do think Jesus would skip church on Sunday morning and instead visit the nursing homes and retirement homes where so many have abandoned their loved ones.

  

  Taylor Negron
  • Church
  • Morning
  • Jesus

• My daily beauty regimen consists of washing my face before bed and putting on moisturizer.

  

  Rachel Bilson
  • Beauty
  • Daily
  • Face

• The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Art
  • Beauty
  • Architecture

• During the first 13 centuries after the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem, no one thought of setting up a creche to celebrate Christmas. The pre-eminent Christian holiday was Easter, not Christmas.

  

  Nancy Pearcey
  • Up
  • Christian
  • Jesus

• I think the Miss Universe title not only gives me the opportunity to become a role model for Latina girls around the world, but to show that beauty isn't just about the outside.

  

  Gabriela Isler
  • World
  • Opportunity
  • Universe

• The pattern of a newspaperman's life is like the plot of 'Black Beauty.' Sometimes he finds a kind master who gives him a dry stall and an occasional bran mash in the form of a Christmas bonus, sometimes he falls into the hands of a mean owner who drives him in spite of spavins and expects him to live on potato peelings.

  

  A. J. Liebling
  • Life
  • Live
  • Black

• Search for beauty without features, something deeper than any signs.

  

  Francesca da Rimini
  • Beauty
  • Search
  • Signs

• A kiss is a secret told to the mouth instead of the ear; kisses are the messengers of love and tenderness.

  

  Ingrid Bergman
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Kiss

• My work is not about 'form follows function,' but 'form follows beauty' or, even better, 'form follows feminine.'

  

  Oscar Niemeyer
  • Work
  • Beauty
  • Better

• Do not waste time dreaming of great faraway opportunities; do the best you can where you are. Open your petals of power and beauty and fling out the fragrance of your life in the place that has been assigned to you.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Life
  • Time
  • Great

• What a man does for pay is of little significance. What he is, as a sensitive instrument responsive to the world's beauty, is everything!

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • World
  • Man
  • Beauty

• I ain't here to argue about his facial features. Or here to convert atheists into believers. I'm just trying to say the way school need teachers the way Kathie Lee needed Regis that's the way yall need Jesus.

  

  Kanye West
  • Trying
  • School
  • Jesus

• One of the things that people don't realize is that that natural beauty, those recreational forests, they have an economic development impact for the state as well.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • People
  • Beauty
  • Impact

• The Western man declares that in order to be beautiful, a woman must look 14 years old. If she dares to look 50, or worse, 60, she is beyond the pale. By putting the spotlight on the female child and framing her as the ideal of beauty, he condemns the mature woman to invisibility.

  

  Fatema Mernissi
  • She
  • Beautiful
  • Man

• Be. If I could be Jesus for just a day and have it my way, if I Could be perfect, like the light - Jesus for a night and have It my way - if I could be Atop my mountain a phenomenon - when I walk on water I am Complete, at peace and I'd make it so you'd be just like me.

  

  Macy Gray
  • Night
  • Light
  • Peace

• I'll tell you one thing... no doubt about it, my favorite kind of comedy is talking head comedy. I mean, if it were up to me, I'd do a whole entire movie that was just around a dinner table.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Movie
  • Me
  • Comedy

• The transition was difficult. It's hard to stop something that you've enjoyed and that has been very rewarding.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • You
  • Stop
  • Difficult

• It would be helpful if someone would lay out exactly the economic mechanism that gets us from yet lower interest rates to actual economic activity.

  

  Jerry A. Webman

• I conceived and developed a new geometry of nature and implemented its use in a number of diverse fields. It describes many of the irregular and fragmented patterns around us, and leads to full-fledged theories, by identifying a family of shapes I call fractals.

  

  Benoit Mandelbrot
  • Family
  • Nature
  • Science

• Not all intelligence can be artificial now, so if we make a mistake, the consequences are no longer simply located within an institution or a national culture.

  

  William Irwin Thompson
  • Culture
  • Mistake
  • Consequence

• The beauty of the ragamuffin gospel lies in the insight it offers into Jesus: the essential tenderness of His heart, His way of looking at the world, His mode of relating to you and me. 'If you really want to understand a man, don't just listen to what he says, but watch what he does.

  

  Brennan Manning
  • Jesus
  • Beauty
  • Gospel