Brennan Manning Quotes
God loves us as we are...not as we ought to be. because we are never going to be as we ought to be.

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I realized that equipment really had little to do with why I sound like the way I sound.
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We know that efficiency and effectiveness are increased when you're getting sufficient sleep, and it will take you longer to do the same thing on an underslept brain, which means you end up having to stay awake longer. So goes the vicious cycle.
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Some newspapers have a hands-off policy on favored politicians. But it's generally very small newspapers or local TV stations.
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My father has a great love of science, and he indoctrinated me into it early. I think I was 12 or so when we designed a moon base.
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My dear sister, I hope, when God Almighty in his righteous providence shall take me out of time into eternity, that it will be by a flash of lightning.
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All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what they have asked and desired.
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People don't like to talk about victory and defeat anymore.
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The Avatar appears in different forms, under different names, at different times, in different parts of the world. As his appearance always coincides with the spiritual birth of man, so the period immediately preceding his manifestation is always one in which humanity suffers from the pangs of the approaching birth.
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Women have always been my best friends.
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I don't use the computer. I do sketches, very quickly, often more than 100 on the same formal research.
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May our lives be born from the beauty of darkness, and shine with the possibility of light.
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I've known Timbaland for a while. We developed a friendship. He always said he would come back for me when he was ready, and he did. We've been rocking and rolling since we got together a couple of years ago. I'm blessed to be under his mentorship, and grateful he's opened so many doors for me.
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Serious literature does not exist to make life easy but to complicate it.
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It's a beautiful day, the sun is shining, I feel good, and no one's gonna stop me now.
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I always felt that I had a mission in life. I thought I was born to play sports. Even now, I still feel that must have been my mission because I came through so many close calls where my life could very easily have been ended.
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It took me twenty years to discover painting: twenty years looking at nature, and above all, going to the Louvre.
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God loves us; the devil hates us. God wants us to have a fulness of joy as He has. The devil wants us to be miserable as he is. God gives us commandments to bless us. The devil would have us break these commandments to curse us.
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Television has some lovely aspects to it - and some ghastly aspects - but the theater itself was a wonderful invention.