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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When I was a child I truly loved: Unthinking love as calm and deep As the North Sea. But I have lived, And now I do not sleep.
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Well, I actually grew up in the sixties. I feel very lucky, actually, that that was my slice of time that I was dealt. Let's remember that the real motivation in the sixties, and even in the fifties, was the Cold War.
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Sanctification is not a work of nature, but a work of grace. It is a transformation of character effected not by moral influences, but supernaturally by the Holy Spirit.
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The purification required is not of untouchables but of the so-called superior castes.
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The Potter books in general are a prolonged argument for tolerance, a prolonged plea for an end to bigotry. And I think it's one of the reasons that some people don't like the books, but I think that's it's a very healthy message to pass on to younger people that you should question authority and you should not assume that the establishment or the press tells you all of the truth.
