Brennan Manning Quotes
Childlike surrender and trust, I believe, is the defining spirit of authentic discipleship.
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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.
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Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.
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Orange blossom water would make a magical addition to your store cupboard.
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I missed quite a lot of school because I was working from the age of 11.
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While he was president, it was popular to be a Nixon hater.
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The qualities I most admire in women are confidence and kindness.
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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.
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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?
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The first symptom of love in a young man is timidity; in a girl boldness.
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It is seldom very hard to do one's duty when one knows what it is, but it is often exceedingly difficult to find this out.
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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.
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There's not a lot of really great, deep, serialized television, and we can see from the data that that's what people want.
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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.'
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Looking at yourself through the media is like looking at one of those rippled mirrors in an amusement park.
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All men were alien one to another, at times, not only aliens.
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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.
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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.
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il Zénon savait fort bien qu'il n'existe aucun accommodement durable entre ceux qui cherchent, pèsent, dissèquent, et s'honorent d'être capables de penser demain autrement qu'aujourd'hui, et ceux qui croient ou affirment croire, et obligent sous peine de mort leurs semblables à en faire autant.
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After the dotcom boom blew up, it increased the focus on questions like, 'Why should I trust you to help run my business? How do I know you're not going to go away like every other company?' That was hard. We had to keep proving ourselves.
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I think Congress can pass a bill when the American people start regaining trust in the administration to actually do their job and enforce the laws that are already on the books.
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I personally am not a total pacifist. I do believe there is such a thing as a just war. I believe, for instance, the effort to destroy the Nazi regime militarily was justified military action.
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People look to me to see what the spirit of the Seventies is.
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Non-cooperation is an attempt to awaken the masses to a sense of their dignity and power.
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Childlike surrender and trust, I believe, is the defining spirit of authentic discipleship.
