Brennan Manning Quotes
Sin and forgiveness and falling and getting back up and losing the pearl of great price in the couch cushions but then finding it again, and again, and again? Those are the stumbling steps to becoming Real, the only script that's really worth following in this world or the one that's coming.
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I think being idle is quite hard for me to do.
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I have a strong upper body; I'm an arms swimmer, and I always have been.
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I love to beatbox and have been doing it before I even knew what it was.
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Who cares about the clouds when we're together? Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather.
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I can't go into a mob scene and sense the mood and the attitude of the crowd. I can't conduct man-on-the-street interviews or even get reactions that I can be sure are honest, because they know who I am.
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I'm not averse to telling people off.
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I served in the state Senate for six years with retiring Gov. John Lynch. During that time, we had the fourth-lowest unemployment rate in the country.
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What we have found is that we were the principal mediators in many cases between the Iraqis and their own security forces and their own government, and so you have to almost embrace that role.
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People, not just reporters, are more interested in politics than in government, so the actual issues wouldn't be something that interested them.
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Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.
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God screens us evermore from premature ideas.
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I crave a cone of silence every once in while.
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I did stand-up comedy for seventeen years. I need to explore other things.
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What's the worst that could happen? You're going to come second or lose? It's not like someone has got a gun to your head.
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Living life as normally as possible gives you a richer well of experiences to draw from.
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Mr. Reagan spent World War II, the global conflict fought and won by his generation, making training films in Hollywood.
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Tenemos que ser muy conscientes de que debajo de cada enfermedad hay una prohibición. Una prohibición que viene de una superstición.
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I am going to fight - I, a socialist and Syndicalist - so that we shall make an end to war, so that the little ones of France will sleep in peace, and the women go without fear.
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Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
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I don't think there is anything magical about the language of flowers in real life or in my book.
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Hear my soul speak. Of the very instant that I saw you, did my heart fly at your service
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I think that the core doctrines of Christianity - the incarnation, the resurrection, life after death-these are as strong as ever. In fact, the belief in life after death has increased in this century.
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Sin and forgiveness and falling and getting back up and losing the pearl of great price in the couch cushions but then finding it again, and again, and again? Those are the stumbling steps to becoming Real, the only script that's really worth following in this world or the one that's coming.
