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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There is yet another kind of matrimonial dialect (which naturally succeeds this of talking at each other), which may very properlybe styled The Language Contradictory.... In the former, however plain the object of satire may be exhibited to the whole company, yet there always remains some little covering.... But in this last method, the defiance becomes more open and the impetuosity with which these contradictions are uttered (although the subjects of them are often of the most indifferent nature) evidently prove that they arise from passion.
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The blessing is that everyone knows who I am because of the commercials.
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Most people in the world are Christ lovers. And then there are Christ haters. But all of them are fixated on Christ, and he perpetuates for ever.
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The Law found more than it lost when Christ said, ‘Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven’ (Matthew 5:44-45). This most important commandment summarizes in a word the universal discipline of patience, since it does not allow us to do evil even to people who deserve it.
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We are made for Christ, and nothing less will ever satisfy us.
