Brennan Manning Quotes

Childlike surrender and trust, I believe, is the defining spirit of authentic discipleship.

Brennan Manning

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• I worked with the Neville Brothers for 40-some years on the highway, and up and down since I can remember - funk from New Orleans.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Years

• Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Soul
  • Moments
  • Thoughts

• Orange blossom water would make a magical addition to your store cupboard.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Water
  • Blossom
  • Orange

• The qualities I most admire in women are confidence and kindness.

  

  Oscar de la Renta
  • Women
  • Confidence
  • Kindness

• My tax cut would cut hundreds of billions of dollars. So to do it, you have to be willing to cut spending, too. But if you were to cut hundreds of billions of dollars in taxes, that money's left in communities.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Money
  • Taxes
  • Tax

• When I was a boy I used to do what my father wanted. Now I have to do what my boy wants. My problem is: When am I going to do what I want?

  

  Sam Levenson
  • Father
  • Want
  • Problem

• The first symptom of love in a young man is timidity; in a girl boldness.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Love
  • Young
  • For Him

• The thing that sucks is that there's so much false data because people are in mystery as to what Scientology is, so they just kind of make up stuff.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • People
  • Up
  • Mystery

• There's not a lot of really great, deep, serialized television, and we can see from the data that that's what people want.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • People
  • Great
  • Deep

• You know, I used to say, when people say, 'How do you think about what to write about in the poems every week?' And I say, 'Well, I have to turn it in on Monday, so on Sunday nights I turn the shower to iambic pentameter and it sort of works out that way.'

  

  Calvin Trillin
  • People
  • Think
  • Week

• All men were alien one to another, at times, not only aliens.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Men
  • Alien

• Why do predictions of the Death of the West not belong on the same shelf as the predictions of 'nuclear winter' and 'global warming'? Answer: the Death of the West is not a prediction of what is going to happen, it is a depiction of what is happening now.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Why
  • Death
  • Winter

• That is the true definition of sin; when knowing right you do the lower, ah, then you sin. Where there is no knowledge, sin is not present.

  

  Annie Besant
  • True
  • Knowledge
  • Present

• America enjoys the best health care in the world, but the best is no good if folks can't afford it, access it and doctor's can't provide it.

  

  Bill Frist
  • World
  • Good
  • America

• Sanctification is not regeneration.

  

  Matthew Simpson

• I like to have bright colors and to feel feminine on the court.

  

  Garbine Muguruza

• Directing is an act of interpretation.

  

  James Watkins

• There were so many stories about Bing's daughter living in sin. We weren't hurting anyone. We were living in love. I couldn't understand why people were trying to hurt us and hurt our families.

  

  Mary Crosby
  • People
  • Trying
  • Why

• When the International Space Station is finally launched, it will be fitted with special nickel-hydrogen batteries weighing a total of several tons, with a lifetime of just five years, requiring spares to be brought up from Earth at literally astronomical expense.

  

  Charles Platt
  • Up
  • Earth
  • Space

• Evolution is the key to avoiding the whole issue of God. When you challenge evolution, you're basically challenging someone on a spiritual level.

  

  Frank Peretti
  • God
  • Challenge
  • Spiritual

• We have a great location between Boston and New York, a highly educated work force, and Connecticut is a beautiful place to live.

  

  Susan Bysiewicz
  • Beautiful
  • Location
  • Connecticut

• I believe to have been one of the rare drivers to have returned to Ferrari.

  

  Jacky Ickx
  • Believe
  • I Believe
  • Ferrari

• When you surrender completely to God, as the only truth worth having, you find yourself in service of all that exists. It becomes your joy and recreation. You never tire of serving others.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • God
  • Joy
  • Exists

• Childlike surrender and trust, I believe, is the defining spirit of authentic discipleship.

  

  Brennan Manning
  • Trust
  • Spirit
  • I Believe