Brennan Manning Quotes
Trust is our gift back to God, and he finds it so enchanting that Jesus died for love of it.
Quotes to Explore
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I really love storytelling.
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It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.
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Love me or hate me, both are in my favour. If you love me, I will always be in your heart, and if you hate me, I will be in your mind.
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It may be that when the angels go about their task praising God, they play only Bach. I am sure, however, that when they are together en famille they play Mozart.
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Trust me, I would love to have a wife and kids. I would very much enjoy that. But I also know that you have to be in the right place to do that.
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We should not have a petty regard for God's gifts, though we may and should despise our own imperfections.
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The love received is the love that is saved.
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I only gave out my opinion that same sex marriage is against the law of God.
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I love bookstores and booksellers. In my novel 'Dirty Martini,' I thanked over 3,000 booksellers by name in the back matter.
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The prophets, who were very many, proclaim and declare the one God; for, being filled with the inspiration of the one God, they predicted things to come, with agreeing and harmonious voice.
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The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.
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God is love. He loves everybody. He loves you.
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It's really nice to be in something that you really love and want to share with people. And then, for it to actually get shown and for people to be able to see it is awesome. It's really exciting.
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Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love them to get them to do that.
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Just to eat is a gift.
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As an actor, you try and be cool, but one of the reasons you become an actor is because you're a film fan. And then you're like, 'Oh my God, Ridley Scott just spoke to me!'
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There's nothing wrong with showing sexuality. If you have that inside, it's just an expression of who you are. If you want to share that with people, that's amazing. I love that.
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It's my firm conviction that when Uncle Sam calls, by God we go, and we do the best that we can.
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I shovel [money] out, and God shovels it back...but God has a bigger shovel!
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One of the strangest experiences one can have is to sleep on stage, as I once did in Sydney when I'd lost the key to my flat. I had to stay at night in a bed, which conveniently was on stage because my character Sandy Stone did his monologue from a bed. To wake up looking at a shadowy auditorium is a very peculiar feeling.
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All things show up in the world according to the purposes we ascribe to them.
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Marilyn Monroe was a fabulous dame - fabulous.
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The government is somewhat inept, but the private sector is inept in general. How many companies do venture capitalists invest in that go poorly? By far most of them. However, every once in a while a Google or a Microsoft comes out, so people keep giving them money.
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Trust is our gift back to God, and he finds it so enchanting that Jesus died for love of it.
