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

• I missed quite a lot of school because I was working from the age of 11.

  

  Natalia Vodianova
  • School
  • Age
  • Working

• While he was president, it was popular to be a Nixon hater.

  

  Earl Butz
  • Popular
  • President
  • While

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

  

  Oscar de la Renta
  • Women
  • Confidence
  • Kindness

• I was definitely nervous for the combine. You train for three months to go out there and perform for three days.

  

  Malik Jackson
  • Three
  • Train
  • Nervous

• 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

• 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.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Find
  • Difficult
  • Duty

• 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

• Looking at yourself through the media is like looking at one of those rippled mirrors in an amusement park.

  

  Edmund S. Muskie
  • Yourself
  • Media
  • Mirrors

• 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

• 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.

  

  Marguerite Yourcenar

• Urgent optimism is the desire to act immediately to tackle an obstacle, combined with the belief that we have a reasonable hope of success.

  

  Jane McGonigal
  • Hope
  • Success
  • Desire

• You have to simply become aware of the movement of the mind, which begins this endless trouble.

  

  H. W. L. Poonja
  • Mind
  • Trouble
  • Movement

• Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.

  

  George Eliot
  • Friendships
  • Agreement
  • Liking

• Everything hurt. I closed my eyes, pressing my cheek to the street, and waited. What for, I didn't know. To be rescued. Or found. But no one came. All I'd ever thought I wanted was to be left alone. Until I was.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Hurt
  • Wanted
  • Found

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

  

  Brennan Manning
  • Trust
  • Spirit
  • I Believe