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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• Custom reconciles us to everything.

  

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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.

  

  Larry Wilmore
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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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• You can't beat Freddie Mercury. He was a mad man in the best sense possible.

  

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• As the caterpillar chooses the fairest leaves to her eggs on, so the priest lays his curse on the fairest joys.

  

  Orson Scott Card

• It must be said that today, at the end of its semantic evolution, the word 'terrorist' is an intrinsically propagandistic term. It has no neutral readability. It dispenses with all reasoned examination of political situations, of their causes and consequences.

  

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• Never. The shot is too big for the cannon.

  

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• I learned at an early age that using the third person will push some buttons.

  

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• There are websites that any government wants to block. The truth about the Internet is that it's extremely hard to block anything - extremely hard. You'll never get perfect blocking.

  

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• And they know neither sect nor idolatry, with the exception that all believe that the source of all power and goodness is in the sky, and they believe very firmly that I, with these ships and people, came from the sky, and in this belief they everywhere received me, after they had overcome their fear.

  

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• Iran should not be denied the human right to knowledge...the fear of America is Iran's attitude to Israel, and the cornerstone of America's foreign policy is the protection of Israel... If Iran believes in Allah, and if Iran believes in the power of Allah, Iran can't be frightened by America.

  

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• Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.

  

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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.

  

  Brennan Manning
  • Life
  • Fear
  • Christian