Brennan Manning Quotes

The gospel declares that no matter how dutiful or prayerful we are, we can't save ourselves. What Jesus did was sufficient.

Brennan Manning

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

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • End
  • Corruption
  • Incidents

• I want the BBC to be a mass market public service broadcaster still funded by the licence fee... and the licence fee is more durable than many people in the commercial sector believe.

  

  Gavyn Davies
  • People
  • Believe
  • Service

• I was inspired to spend an entire year - my 65th year - reading, researching, and meditating on Lao-tzu's messages, practicing them and ultimately writing down these insights as I felt Lao-tzu wanted us to know them.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Writing
  • Reading
  • Inspired

• Home, to me, is where I am and where I feel most comfortable. Obviously, Malaysia is home. In L.A., my home is my apartment because that's my Malaysia.

  

  Yuna
  • Home
  • Comfortable
  • Malaysia

• My father was a banker, but he was an independent spirit. He was a very good pianist and very much into music.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Good
  • Music
  • Father

• I love the sense of how time passes when I'm acting. When you're not aware of the clock ticking, that is always a good sign you're enjoying something.

  

  Hannah Ware
  • Time
  • Sense
  • Enjoying

• I got all my politics and culture and my sense of the great wide world of adults from 'Mad Magazine.' But all other comic books literally gave me a headache.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • World
  • Great
  • Culture

• It can be tough when you're on the road, but I think food is meant to be enjoyed, so whenever we go to a new place, we look for the specialty item there.

  

  Hannah Kearney
  • Food
  • Road
  • Tough

• We are all made of air There's stars in my eyes and there's sun in my hair And I'm runnin' away, it makes me feel better

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Eyes
  • Hair
  • Air

• I wanted to change the rules of engagement, asking for more— from fewer. I was insisting that we had to have only the best people...If you wanted excellence, at a minimum, the ambience had to reflect excellence.

  

  Jack Welch
  • People
  • Excellence
  • Engagement

• One of the reasons I write is to be in other people's skin.

  

  Kimberly Willis Holt
  • People

• For the mind disturbed, the still beauty of dawn is nature's finest balm.

  

  Edwin Way Teale
  • Mind
  • Nature

• I have an enormous family because I'm from Montreal and my family's Catholic, so my dad has eight siblings and they all have kids and we all grew up in the same property on weekends and summers.

  

  Jessica Pare
  • Up
  • Family
  • Kids

• Shooting on location and dressing locations in Los Angeles is shockingly expensive, especially when you're talking about webseries-level budgets, so the opportunity to build our sets in YouTube's space gives us a lot more room in our budget in being able to create the world of 'VGHS' properly.

  

  Freddie Wong
  • World
  • Opportunity
  • Space

• My first character was Mr. Toad.

  

  Bill Griffith
  • Character

• I hope that the message I conveyed in 'Julie of the Wolves' is to tell young people to think things out. Think independently.

  

  Jean Craighead George
  • People
  • Hope

• I would tell any aspiring designer to take the time to experience everything they can to really get a feel for what direction they want to go in. And most importantly, let your passion and your gut lead you.

  

  Prabal Gurung
  • Time
  • Experience
  • Passion

• Even if a media of a TV is not available in a home, there's this concept of community homes, where a reasonably well-off villager will have a TV - and a nice TV - and he'll keep it outside the house in the evenings.

  

  Azim Premji
  • Home
  • House
  • Community

• Just as there are moments when the words flow and it feels like the easiest job in the world, there are many more when I think I have nothing to say, and my journalism training taught me that writing is a job, that you write whether you are inspired or not, and that the only way to unlock creativity is to write through it.

  

  Jane Green
  • World
  • Writing
  • Job

• In build and appearance, Tuppy somewhat resembles a bulldog, and his aspect now was that of one of these fine animals who has just been refused a slice of cake.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse

• I've had an experience that... I don't know the right label to put to it, if it was an angel or Jesus or what. Nobody knows anything for sure about that, but I know that I had an encounter, and I know that things exist beyond this realm, most definitely. I'm grounded in that.

  

  Phyllis Smith
  • Experience
  • Jesus
  • Angel

• True praying has the largest results for good. Poor praying the least. We cannot do too much of real praying. We cannot do too little of the sham. If we would learn the wondrous power of prayer, we must not give a fragment here and there - A little talk with Jesus, as the tiny saintlets sing - but we must demand and hold with an iron grasp the best hours of the day for God and prayer, or there will be no praying worth the name.

  

  Edward McKendree Bounds
  • Good
  • God
  • Real

• We've replaced the proclamation of Christ with an easy-listening legalism of do more and try harder.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Listening
  • Christ
  • Proclamation

• The gospel declares that no matter how dutiful or prayerful we are, we can't save ourselves. What Jesus did was sufficient.

  

  Brennan Manning
  • Jesus
  • Gospel
  • Sufficient