Brennan Manning Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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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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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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He who is false to present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and will find the flaw when he may have forgotten its cause.
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My mom's gonna be the biggest star - mark my words right now!
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'Physician, heal thyself' is more true in matters religious than mundane.
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I don't have a lot of friends.
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In my perfect world order, it is cold all the time. Everyone wears sweaters and drinks coffee. People don't speak to each other; they read the newspaper. There is no loud music, and cats are in charge.
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If we are in Christ the whole basis of our goings is God, not conceptions of God, not ideas of God, but God Himself. We do not need any more ideas about God, the world is full of ideas about God, they are all worthless, because the ideas of God in anyone’s head are of no more use than our own ideas. What we need is a real God, not more ideas about Him.
