Brennan Manning Quotes
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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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What drives the creative person is that we see it all.
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We are very near the final climactic events that end with the Second Coming of Christ.
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The social and industrial structure of America is founded upon an enlightened citizenship.
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If people want to know the truth, why don't they just come to me and ask?
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Unbelief is judged by Jesus not as an intellectual error but as a hostile act of prejudice against God himself.
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Pride is the chief cause in the decline in the number of husbands and wives.
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We must be prepared to keep pace with our leaders, stride for their every lengthened stride.
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...and my loneliness, always my loneliness - that airless bubble of despair that is slowing stifling me.
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In case you never noticed, the path you never chose has chosen you.
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We are reflectors, and as reflectors we have one duty and that is to stay clean or we won't reflect Jesus.
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There are no 'come shoot me' clothes.
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Unless you are educated in metaphor, you are not safe to be let loose in the world.
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A prince should suspect everything.
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Behold our refutation of the error. It is not based on documents of faith, but on the reasons and statements of the philosophers themselves. If then anyone there be who, boastfully taking pride in his supposed wisdom, wishes to challenge what we have written, let him not do it in some corner nor before children who are powerless to decide on such difficult matters. Let him reply openly if he dare. He shall find me there confronting him, and not only my negligible self, but many another whose study is truth.
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I think there were times when I was so afraid of losing you that I forgot I even had you at all.
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The world has proclaimed the reign of freedom, especially of late, but what do we see in this freedom of theirs? Nothing but slavery and self-destruction! For the world says: "You have desires and so satisfy them, for you have the same rights as the most rich and powerful. Don't be afraid of satisfying them and even multiply your desires."
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We are made for Christ, and nothing less will ever satisfy us.
