Brennan Manning Quotes
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My favorite animal is a polar bear. They're going extinct, and I really don't want that to happen.
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Even though I've won numerous titles and an Olympic gold medal, there are still so many faults in my performance that I can honestly hardly bear to watch the videos back.
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I'll fight a bear, but I don't like spiders. I'm not a fan of those.
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Over the course of history, the people who are not scared go into the woods and are mauled by a bear, are not going to survive.
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Glory is a heavy burden, a murdering poison, and to bear it is an art. And to have that art is rare.
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For who can bear to feel himself forgotten?
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Bear patiently with a rival.
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The fundamental idea which defines a human being as a Muslim is the declaration of faith: that there is a creator, whom we call God - or Allah, in Arabic - and that the creator is one and single. And we declare this faith by the declaration of faith, where we... bear witness that there is no God but God.
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Some people bear three kinds of trouble - the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.
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People are terrible. They can bear anything. Anything! People are hard and brutal. And everyone is disposable. Everyone! That's the lesson.
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We argued about how hard it would be to ride a bear, assuming said bear was muzzled.
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God is on the side of the heaviest cannon.
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For those who feel it, nothing makes the soul so religious and pure as the endeavor to create something perfect; for God is perfection, and whoever strives after it, is striving after something divine. True painting is only the image of the perfection of God, a shadow of the pencil with which he paints, a melody, a striving after harmony.
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It requires a strong mind to bear up against several languages. Some persons have learnt so many, that they have ceased to think in any one.
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God is dead, and no one cares! If there is a hell I'll see you there!
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Who wouldn't want to catch a guy in a bear suit?
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These figures emphasize how soft people's commitment to God is. Americans are willing to expend some energy in religious activities such as attending church and reading the Bible, and they are willing to throw some money in the offering basket, but when it comes time to truly establishing their priorities and making a tangible commitment to knowing and loving God, most people stop short.
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I want it to be 70 per cent beautiful, 15 per cent surrealistically beautiful, and the rest so beautiful that nobody can bear it.
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The truest communication with God is absolute, total silence; there is not a single word in existence that can convey this communication.
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The accidents of life separate us from our dearest friends, but let us not despair. God is like a looking glass in which souls see each other. The more we are united to Him by love, the nearer we are to those who belong to Him.
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In order to understand the mindset of a boxer, I needed to become a boxer myself.
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I still get recognized. It's flattering, but it can be uncomfortable. Maybe because it only seems to happen when I'm looking and feeling crappy.
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God is a kooky God who can scarcely bear to be without us.
