Brennan Manning Quotes
I have a word for you. I know your whole life story. I know every skeleton in your closet. I know every moment of sin, shame, dishonesty and degraded love that has darkened your past. Right now I know your shallow faith, your feeble prayer life, your inconsistent discipleship. And my word is this: I dare you to trust that I love you just as you are, and not as you should be. Because you’re never going to be as you should be.
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When a human being becomes a set of data on a website like Facebook, he or she is reduced. Everything shrinks. Individual character. Friendships. Language. Sensibility.
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I believe the answers to most problems that confront us around the world can and should be approached by engaging both friend and foe in dialogue. No, I don't naively think that dialogue always works, but I believe we should avoid the rigidity of saying that dialogue never works.
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We talk a lot about hope, helping, and teamwork. Our whole message is that we are more powerful together.
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Me and my brothers started a musical group early on, and we were playing in places where we really weren't supposed to be.
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Leading from behind doesn't work.
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I wanted to be a ballet teacher.
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I played softball for a few years growing up. Both my brothers played baseball.
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I was in bands, but they were punk bands, and you plug in the guitars, you turn them up really loud, you've got four or five other people on stage with you, you've got some protection from when they throw lighters. You can always hide behind the lead singer or the bass player.
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He was so excited. He cut out pictures of these landscapes and neighborhoods and kind of really tried to give you a feel of the movie. It was kind of cute but at the same time it really showed his enthusiasm for it.
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In the landscape of extinction, precision is next to godliness.
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I'm not interested in celebrity.
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I knew that it was my only shot to be taken seriously in the recording industry, because it's fast and broad.
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Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour.
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When I go out and I see the genuine appreciation from the people, that's a big thing for me.
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The hard work definitely paid off and hard work always does.
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It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
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Our choices are going to determine the future for our children, our children's children, and their children. I take that responsibility very seriously.
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It would have been difficult to have an ugly daughter.
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I bought an espresso maker and coffee maker and make them myself every day.
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Writing kept her sane. Kept her form spinning out of control. Kept her tongue still whenever some white person spoke down to her. She had to write, it was the only thing that was completely hers, that she could look forward to at the end of her long day.
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I think singing and acting go hand in hand. Take an R&B singer: one song says, 'I love you,' the next is, 'Baby, don't leave me', the next is, 'If you leave me I don't care.' You have to drop in and out of different perspectives.
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I have a word for you. I know your whole life story. I know every skeleton in your closet. I know every moment of sin, shame, dishonesty and degraded love that has darkened your past. Right now I know your shallow faith, your feeble prayer life, your inconsistent discipleship. And my word is this: I dare you to trust that I love you just as you are, and not as you should be. Because you’re never going to be as you should be.
