Brennan Manning Quotes
We unwittingly project onto God our own attitudes and feelings toward ourselves... But we cannot assume that He feels about us the way we feel about ourselves -- unless we love ourselves compassionately, intensely, and freely.
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How much do you engage yourself in what's truly real and important in life? That's the individual question.
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The resolution has made a real threat of war go away and opens the way for further work in the interests of a political- diplomatic settlement of the situation around Iraq.
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I don't Twitter, although sometimes I think that I should.
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I was never the girl who tore pictures out of wedding magazines.
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If it's a cocktail party, I generally make five or six different things, and I try to choose recipes that feel like a meal: a chicken thing, a fish or shrimp thing, maybe two vegetable things, and I think it's fun to end the cocktail party with a sweet thing.
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I am becoming more radical with age. I have noticed that writers, when they are old, become milder. But for me it is the opposite. Age makes me more angry.
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What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.
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I try my damnedest to quirk up anything that I'm in.
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A team without hope fizzles: no flameout, no fire.
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I feel like you learn how to do school in second grade through fifth grade. During those years, I was never home.
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Make-up is all about shading; it's about tactical application.
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Executive orders are meant for occasional use, not to force something through that the people's elected representatives aren't going to make law.
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HeyHey is my favourite app. It's like Instagram but for sound recordings, with little soundbites from people's days. We spend far too much time looking down at our phones, so it's nice to have your head up while you listen to what other people have uploaded.
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The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.
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One of the best things people could do for their descendents would be to sharply limit the number of them.
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Our primary objective must be to prevent wars, and when we fail in this, we must protect and assist the innocent victims.
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I don't want to sing boring pop songs – I want to sing songs that are meaningful to me.
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Most government and corporate leaders would have trouble getting people to follow them out of a burning building. One way you can tell the worst of them is that they talk about leadership a lot. I doubt Winston Churchill ever used the word. Or, for that matter, Attila the Hun.
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There was never miracle wrought by God to convert an atheist, because the light of nature might have led him to confess a God.
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Not my idea of God, but God.
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There are long periods when life seems a small, dull round, a petty business with no point, and then suddenly we are caught up in some great event which gives us a glimpse of the solid and durable foundations of our existence.
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Truth would quickly cease to be stranger than fiction, once we got used to it.
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Everyone has said very supportive things coming out of D.C. today. We can't wait when the race has begun.
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We unwittingly project onto God our own attitudes and feelings toward ourselves... But we cannot assume that He feels about us the way we feel about ourselves -- unless we love ourselves compassionately, intensely, and freely.
