Brennan Manning Quotes
Without fear I can acknowledge that the authentic Christian tension is not between life and death, but between life and life.

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It is right that we be concerned with the scientific probity of metaphysics.
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Everyone wants to be a stylist. If you know that's your calling, then you need to intern as much a humanly possible. You need to go to fashion school if you can.
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Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.
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If we want to create a viable, peaceful world, we've got to integrate compassion into the gritty realities of 21st century life.
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Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss.
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Custom reconciles us to everything.
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In Washington, I am a leader on the issues that matter to my community, and I think that's what my constituents want, and also I think that's what voters want. Someone who understands them, who wants to represent them, and who works tirelessly every day on behalf of their interests and their values.
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I guess because of my act, people think that I say things they want to say, and that they can just come up and say anything to me.
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I bartended for a catering company for two or three years.
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Fuseproject was founded in 1999, and the notion behind it, which is alive and kicking today, is fusing different disciplines. Our teams are absolutely incredible at their own discipline, but most importantly, they're incredible at partnering with each other.
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I'll stop talking about race when people stop being racist.
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Petty laws breed great crimes.
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The fact of the matter is the Arab elites are more inclined to accommodate our wishes because of certain overlapping interests that are often financial. That is not the case with the Arab masses.
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Even if you are a best-seller you feel insecure because it is all so unpredictable.
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I enjoy watching Fear Factor, Newlyweds and American Idol as far as reality TV shows go.
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Without going outside his race, and even among the better classes with their 'white' culture and conscious American manners, but still Negro enough to be different, there is sufficient matter to furnish a black artist with a lifetime of creative work.
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Since this war began our sympathy has gone out to all the suffering people who have been dragged into it. Further hundreds of millions have become involved since I spoke at Limerick fortnight ago.
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As soon as I went to painting school in New York, I took an experimental film course, and everything clicked and came together. I realized my love of music and drama and the visual arts all came together.
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My wife Amber and I, along with our two children, did not move to Liberia for the specific purpose of fighting Ebola.
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I would honestly be elated if I could wave a magic wand and eradicate my back catalog and then have a fresh crack at some of those ideas.
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The intelligence of the lower forms of animal life, like a great deal of human intelligence, does not involve a self.
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One of the core ideas of the Bible is that meaning can be found in history. The sheer act of telling and retelling stories helps us to understand God's role in the world as well as our own position in a long line of ancestors who have wrestled with similar issues to the ones we wrestle with every day.
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Without fear I can acknowledge that the authentic Christian tension is not between life and death, but between life and life.