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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Whenever I work on a part, I look at the world through the filter of the character and I pick things they might use through my observations of real life.
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As an actor, you always use the tools of who you are and your experience of what you have to offer.
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There is more to the game than hitting it far. There are ways to make birdies other than hitting 350-yard drives. I pride myself on a good short game; I work very hard at it.
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When I saw Elvis on television, I just fell in love with him completely. As a singer, I want to be able to relate to an audience like this man does. Of course, nobody can - he was the best there ever was.
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I can't gather around and talk about how much everybody in the room doesn't believe in God. I just don't - I don't have the energy for that, and so I... Agnostic separates me from the conduct of atheists whether or not there is strong overlap between the two categories, and at the end of the day I'd rather not be any category at all.
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I came all this way for a reason. Today is the day of salvation. Trust Jesus to save you. Then be sincere as God knows a pretender.
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The Christian "doctrines" are translations into our concepts and ideas of that which God has already expressed in language more adequate, namely the actual incarnation, crucifixion, and resurrection
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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.
