Brennan Manning Quotes
The Christ within who is our hope of glory is not a matter of theological debate or philosophical speculation. He is not a hobby, a part-time project, a good theme for a book, or a last resort when all human effort fails. He is our life, the most real fact about us. He is the power and wisdom of God dwelling within us.
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Spare no expense to save money on this one.
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The Beduin could not look for God within him: he was too sure that he was within God.
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I don't like to be out of my comfort zone, which is about a half an inch wide.
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I have yet to see a drama that puts forward women who are successful and also have a family... they are nearly always seen as victims.
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I love watching action. I remember watching Angelina Jolie in 'Tomb Raider,' and I was like 'Wow, it's so cool when a girl can go around and kick butt.'
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The same way you can see me sit at a table in a movie and be six different people, the mother and the uncle and all these different things, when I'm in the studio, I can do that, too. I'm not trying to be a recording artist and have a certain type of music for the radio.
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With relationships, I've been through a lot of different situations with different people, and I write about it.
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My father was interested in bringing reggae music to the entire world.
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I came to running late. It was something I had always wanted to do, but I always end up getting hurt. It didn't occur to me that I could actually slow down and walk a little bit!
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I have a couture body.
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We are very near the final climactic events that end with the Second Coming of Christ.
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I'm the nicest, most loyal person in the world when it comes to my friends.
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The earth has grown a nervous system, and it's us.
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To really enjoy drugs you've got to want to get out of where you are. But there are some wheres that are harder to get out of than others. This is the drug-taking problem for adults. Teenage weltschmerz is easy to escape. But what drug will get a grown-up out of, for instance, debt?
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So many of the optimists in the world don't own a hundred dollars, and because of their optimism, never will.
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75: The computing field is always in need of new cliches: Banality sooths our nerves.
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Jealousy is a virtue of democracies which preserves them from tyrants.
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Anyone who has achieved excellence in any form knows that it comes as a result of ceaseless concentration.
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But please know, whether you believe campaign contributions are speech or property, that I learned to love very dearly the right of free expression when I lived without that freedom for a while a long time ago.
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Gratitude is a humble emotion. It expresses itself in a thousand ways, from a sincere thank you to friend or stranger, to the mute, up-reaching acknowledgment to God--not for the gifts of this day only, but for the day itself; not for what we believe will be ours in the future, but for the bounty of the past.
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Trouble is here. It is for a purpose. Use it for the purpose for which it was intended - to help you grow. Thank God for your troubles.
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The Christ within who is our hope of glory is not a matter of theological debate or philosophical speculation. He is not a hobby, a part-time project, a good theme for a book, or a last resort when all human effort fails. He is our life, the most real fact about us. He is the power and wisdom of God dwelling within us.
