Brennan Manning Quotes

I am deeply distressed by what I only can call in our Christian culture the idolatry of the Scriptures. For many Christians, the Bible is not a pointer to God but God himself... God cannot be confined within the covers of a leather-bound book. I develop a nasty rash around people who speak as if mere scrutiny of its pages will reveal precisely how God thinks and precisely what God wants.

Brennan Manning

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• The beautiful remains so in ugly surroundings.

  

  Malcolm de Chazal
  • Beautiful
  • Beauty
  • Ugly

• Banks are concerned the central bank is imposing too many regulations. If the trend continues, we'll swing to heavy regulation. We need to have balanced regulation to encourage the economy.

  

  Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair
  • Need
  • Economy
  • Bank

• I am very lucky that I get to tell stories for a living. I love being able to grab people's attention, to keep them turning the pages, to make them stay awake all night.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • People
  • Attention
  • Stories

• I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Believe
  • Way
  • Immortality

• The Arab Awakening or Arab Spring has transformed the geopolitical landscape.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Spring
  • Landscape
  • Awakening

• Tennis Australia really led the charge as far as upping the prize money and trying to do the right thing by the players. They also led the way so women have equal prize money in all the grand slams too.

  

  Samantha Stosur
  • Women
  • Trying
  • Money

• I didn't know that I could do a talk show. I didn't know that we could bring variety to daytime. I didn't know that people wanted to see singing, and dancing and comedy in the morning.

  

  Wayne Brady
  • People
  • Comedy
  • Morning

• Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion. Putting up a retaining wall is a lark. But teaching is like climbing a mountain.

  

  Fawn M. Brodie
  • Up
  • Like
  • Wall

• The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Hand
  • Eye
  • Bored

• I'm not afraid of werewolves or vampires or haunted hotels, I'm afraid of what real human beings to do other real human beings.

  

  Walter Jon Williams
  • Real
  • Human
  • Afraid

• Philosophy and theology have so much to tell us about God, but people today want to experience God. There is a difference between eating dinner and merely reading the menu.

  

  Dada Vaswani
  • People
  • God
  • Experience

• A typical complaint of married women with children is that their job stress tired them out so that they have little quality emotion and energy left for their children, much less their husbands.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Women
  • Children
  • Job

• 'Floating Worlds,' published in 1975 and the lone science fiction novel by acclaimed historical novelist Cecelia Holland, was unique in being completely devoid of the usual pulp influences present in much space opera up to that time.

  

  Pamela Sargent
  • Up
  • Time
  • Science

• The call for diversity is about recognizing that in order to be in the conversation come awards season, it goes back to the content that is being produced.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Diversity
  • Conversation

• Life is incredibly short, yet we're always told that change takes time. For a race of mortals, dicking around just isn't acceptable.

  

  Ted Rall
  • Life
  • Time

• Women who insist on having the same options as men would do well to consider the option of being the strong, silent type.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Men
  • Women
  • Strong

• Some people say accident, it may be an accident, it may be something else. The (helicopter) was very well equipped, this was my (helicopter) the one I am flying all the time, I am not ruling anything out. Either the pilot panicked... either there was some side wind or the instruments failed or there was an external factor.

  

  Yoweri Museveni
  • People
  • Time
  • May

• Can't get up in the morning lately and I'm just sunk in a dream I'm always the ship in the stream

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Up
  • Dream
  • Morning

• For if the honour paid to Him is shared by others, He altogether ceases to be worshipped, since His religion requires us to believe that He is the one and only God.

  

  Lactantius
  • God
  • Believe
  • Religion

• What was he doing, the great god Pan,Down in the reeds by the river?Spreading ruin and scattering ban,Splashing and paddling with hoofs of a goat,And breaking the golden lilies afloatWith the dragon-fly on the river.

  

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning
  • Great
  • God
  • Fly

• If I were a carpenter, I'd find a way to empower using that skill. I'm using as much as God has given - my mind, my voice, my heart, my art forms. This is the highest form of expression on the planet from God, to me, to you.

  

  Avery Brooks
  • God
  • Mind
  • Heart

• We shall find that the spheres God brings us into are not meant to teach us something but to make us something.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Teach
  • Sphere

• A man who tells secrets or stories must think of who is hearing or reading, for a story has as many versions as it has readers.

  

  John Steinbeck
  • Reading

• I am deeply distressed by what I only can call in our Christian culture the idolatry of the Scriptures. For many Christians, the Bible is not a pointer to God but God himself... God cannot be confined within the covers of a leather-bound book. I develop a nasty rash around people who speak as if mere scrutiny of its pages will reveal precisely how God thinks and precisely what God wants.

  

  Brennan Manning
  • God
  • Develop
  • Thinks