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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I never leave the writer behind, because you rewrite the movie in post, or at least I do. I always do, and I feel like anybody who doesn't at least explore that possibility is short-changing themselves. Editing is the most fun and most exciting part of the process.
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What's wrong with creative block? Might it not just be that periods - even extended ones - of productive hiatus are essential mechanisms of gestation designed to help us attain higher standards in our pursuit of creative excellence?
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But with Christ, we have access in a one-to-one relationship, for, as in the Old Testament, it was more one of worship and awe, a vertical relationship. The New Testament, on the other hand, we look across at a Jesus who looks familiar, horizontal. The combination is what makes the Cross.
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It’s not about what we do, or what we feel, it’s about what He did and what He felt. It’s about what Christ has done for us.
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Christ cannot light a single spark in the heart of an individual, without that little tiny spark being for God. He gives the light, and has ordained that every ray of it is to reflect something for God.
