Brennan Manning Quotes

Won't the awareness God loves us no matter what lead to spiritual laziness and moral laxity? Theoretically, this seems a reasonable fear, but in reality the opposite is true. . . . The more rooted we are in the love of God, the more generously we will live our faith.

Brennan Manning

• Reality
• Faith
• Awareness
• God Loves

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• Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Me

• Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it is still a complete drag.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Me
  • Famous
  • Disappointing

• Yes, I did feel a special responsibility to be the first American woman in space.

  

  Sally Ride
  • American
  • Space
  • Responsibility

• Because of the many dimensions of forms of though which you can also put into physical form, you have the possibility to create much which we cannot fashion in the same manner.

  

  Hans Bender
  • You
  • Fashion
  • Create

• Whoever comes to me finds me a mirror to whatever is in his heart. Thus, I try to help him to see qualities in himself that he needs to overcome.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • Heart
  • Help
  • Mirror

• I have an hourglass shape, and I think it's important to understand your body type and your personality type. Then make whatever is on trend and in fashion work for you.

  

  Fiona Gubelmann
  • Work
  • Important
  • Fashion

• Men and women are immigrants in each other's worlds.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • Men
  • Women
  • Immigrants

• When people say I have become a celebrity, I remind them of fame's flip side. For instance, if I want to watch a movie in a cinema, I have to enter through a side exit just before the film begins and leave by the same exit before the credits roll.

  

  Saina Nehwal
  • People
  • Movie
  • Same

• One of the things that made the Internet so explosive and such an economic and intellectual force is because of the free-market enterprise in a country like the U.S. controlling access to it.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • Country
  • Free
  • Force

• The idea of us telling a story where a character doesn't get everything he wants at the end is one of the relatable things - dealing with failures and missteps in life - and it's something that's so rarely dealt with in movies, especially kids' movies.

  

  Dan Scanlon
  • Life
  • Character
  • Kids

• It's not the end of the world if I can't get a film job, or if a movie doesn't turn out well - even though I don't like it when that happens. There are other things I enjoy doing, and I involve myself in them.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • World
  • Job
  • Movie

• There was a moment when designers draped in ermine would be reading Proust, or pretending to.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Reading
  • Moment
  • Pretending

• I can clearly trace my passion for reading back to the Jonesboro, Georgia, library, where, for the first time in my life, I had access to what seemed like an unlimited supply of books.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Life
  • Time
  • Reading

• Candour is the brightest gem of criticism.

  

  Isaac D'Israeli
  • Criticism

• The gentle minde by gentle deeds is knowne. For a man by nothing is so well bewrayd, As by his manners.

  

  Edmund Spenser

• Not all problems have a technological answer, but when they do, that is the more lasting solution.

  

  Andy Grove
  • Technology

• Do not go out of your way to do good whenever it comes your way. Men who make a business of doing good to others are apt to hate others in the same occupation. Simply be filled with the thought of good, and it will radiate - you do not have to bother about it, any more than you need trouble about your digestion.

  

  Elbert Hubbard
  • Good
  • Men
  • Business

• I hope that this execution is the last act of the tragedy of the Second World War, and that the lesson taken from this world war will be that peace and understanding should exist between peoples. I believe in Germany.

  

  Arthur Seyss-Inquart
  • World
  • Believe
  • War

• People often speak of God being even-handed. God is not even-handed. God is biased, in favor of the weak, of the despised.

  

  Desmond Tutu
  • People
  • God

• Now, if someone wants to spit on me, I just roll up the window of my BMW 540i.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Want
  • Window
  • Spit

• I'm always having a crisis of faith, with everything. People who are certain are terrifying to me. That's how religious wars get started.

  

  Andrew Garfield
  • People
  • Faith
  • Religious

• I grew up with a very strong sense of what is just and what is not or, to put it this way, I grew up with a keen sense of a division, the reality of a division of perception in people's lives between those who govern and those who govern.

  

  Wole Soyinka
  • People
  • Reality
  • Strong

• When I came to Johannesburg from the countryside, I knew nobody, but many strangers were very kind to me. I then was dragged into politics, and then, subsequently, I became a lawyer.

  

  Nelson Mandela
  • Lawyer

• Won't the awareness God loves us no matter what lead to spiritual laziness and moral laxity? Theoretically, this seems a reasonable fear, but in reality the opposite is true. . . . The more rooted we are in the love of God, the more generously we will live our faith.

  

  Brennan Manning
  • Reality
  • Faith
  • Awareness