Brennan Manning Quotes

What makes authentic disciples is not visions, ecstasies, biblical mastery of chapter and verse, or spectacular success in the ministry, but a capacity for faithfulness. Buffeted by the fickle winds of failure, battered by their own unruly emotions, and bruised by rejection and ridicule, authentic disciples may have stumbled and frequently fallen, endured lapses and relapses, gotten handcuffed to the fleshpots and wandered into a far county. Yet, they kept coming back to Jesus.

Brennan Manning

• Jesus
• Failure
• Emotions
• Ministry
• Disciples
• Faithfulness

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• They say I am a regulator and I think it is just an effort not to comply with the decree. I do not do anything except what the decree requires me to do.

  

  Harold H. Greene
  • Effort
  • Decree
  • Regulator

• No one can end it, but incidents of corruption can be reduced.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • End
  • Corruption
  • Incidents

• I had so many freckles that my mother used to say that they were kisses from the angels. I still have them.

  

  Lara Flynn Boyle
  • Mother
  • Say
  • Angels

• I think most people that are looked upon as doing something daring don't necessarily think of it that way-they do what they have to do.

  

  Ed Harris
  • People
  • Think
  • Doing

• In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Know
  • Comedy
  • Drama

• The main thing in life is not to be afraid of being human.

  

  Aaron Carter
  • Life
  • Human
  • Being Human

• Violence is one of the most fun things to watch.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Fun
  • Violence
  • Things

• A pulp story without a detective and, obviously, somebody for him to do battle with is unthinkable, and I can't remember reading a pulp story that didn't have a dame - either a good girl or a bad girl.

  

  Otto Penzler
  • Good
  • Remember
  • Bad

• Voters are hungry for principled, conservative fighters - because the threat to our liberties from Washington never has been greater.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Been
  • Hungry
  • Washington

• The first time I went to Iraq was October 2002, when Saddam was still in power, and then, subsequently, in January of 2003, about three-and-a-half months before the U.S. invasion. So, I got to see the before and after of Iraq, basically, before and after the war.

  

  Farnaz Fassihi
  • Time
  • Power
  • War

• I have been portrayed by actors in three television documentaries, two plays, one musical and a film. It's no fun watching yourself being traduced and imitated by an actor.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Fun
  • Yourself
  • Television

• I'd say, for my freshman year in college, I was doing everything in my power to hide the fact that I had ever had any association with the Paul Green School of Rock Music because it was like this bruise. It was such a sore subject.

  

  Madi Diaz
  • Music
  • School
  • Power

• When I started out, I wanted to be the kind of artist who could play the CMA Music Festival and then turn around and play Bonnaroo, and I've managed to do both.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • Music
  • Kind
  • Play

• No one will be forced to take the public option. The word option means choice.

  

  Valerie Jarrett
  • Choice
  • Word
  • Will

• Rememberest the gods, and that they wish not to be flattered, but wish all reasonable beings to be made like themselves; and... rememberest that what does the work of a fig-tree is a fig-tree, and that what does the work of a dog is a dog, and that what does the work of a bee is a bee, and that what does the work of a man is a man.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Work
  • Wish
  • Dog

• Truth is harder to bear than ignorance, and so ignorance is valued more- also because the status quo depends on it; but love depends on self-knowledge and self-knowledge depends on being able to bear the truth.

  

  Andrea Dworkin
  • Truth
  • Knowledge
  • Ignorance

• I believe mysticism is a very serious endeavor. One must be equipped for it. One doesn't study calculus before studying arithmetic. In my tradition, one must wait until one has learned a lot of Bible and Talmud and the Prophets to handle mysticism. This isn't instant coffee. There is no instant mysticism.

  

  Elie Wiesel
  • Believe
  • Serious
  • Study

• It's the stickiness of earth that makes it problematic - the way it stains your straps and ingrains your hands so you can't quite tell where you start and stop.

  

  Alice Oswald
  • Earth
  • Stop

• I'm not an artist, and I want to take risks, and when the possibility of failure occurs, it's because the idea is all exciting or interesting as a high wire act, and sometimes you've got to fall off, just by virtue of the fact that you're constantly trying to evolve and do new things.

  

  Peter Morgan
  • Trying
  • High
  • Interesting

• Testing proves a programmer’s failure. Debugging is the programmer’s vindication.

  

  Boris Beizer
  • Failure
  • Testing
  • Proves

• What makes authentic disciples is not visions, ecstasies, biblical mastery of chapter and verse, or spectacular success in the ministry, but a capacity for faithfulness. Buffeted by the fickle winds of failure, battered by their own unruly emotions, and bruised by rejection and ridicule, authentic disciples may have stumbled and frequently fallen, endured lapses and relapses, gotten handcuffed to the fleshpots and wandered into a far county. Yet, they kept coming back to Jesus.

  

  Brennan Manning
  • Jesus
  • Failure
  • Emotions