Brennan Manning Quotes

The outstretched arms of Jesus exclude no one, not the drunk in the doorway, the panhandler on the street, gays and lesbians in their isolation, the most selfish and ungrateful in their cocoons, the most unjust of employers and the most overweening of snobs. The love of Christ embraces all without exception.

Brennan Manning

• Jesus
• Arms
• Employers
• Lesbians
• Love of Christ

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• Whether I build a character from the ground up or develop one, whether within my own copyright or in licensed work, I can step into that character's mind. It takes a kind of voluntary dissociation akin to method acting, military planning, marketing, or detective work: to think like the other guy and work out what he's going to do next.

  

  Karen Traviss
  • Up
  • Work
  • Mind

• Being creative and making money in the theater is very challenging.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Money
  • Creative
  • Theater

• We are very near the final climactic events that end with the Second Coming of Christ.

  

  Hal Lindsey
  • End
  • Christ
  • Final

• It's very strange that you condemn me as a terrorist at the same time as you call on me to help you combat terrorism in Iraq and elsewhere. It doesn't make sense!

  

  Walid Muallem
  • Time
  • Help
  • Me

• I am very old-fashioned about marriage. It is for life and I mean it. I always knew that when I met the right girl, the life I had before - being single, in a band, girls everywhere - would be over.

  

  Gary Numan
  • Life
  • Girl
  • Single

• Decisions are always made with insufficient information. If you really knew what was going on, the decision would make itself.

  

  Jack McDevitt
  • Decision

• Indian, Indian what did you die for? Indian says, nothing at all.

  

  Jim Morrison The Doors
  • Die

• One wishes to go on. On this great river one could glide forever - and here we discover the definition of bliss, salvation, Heaven, all the old Mediterranean dreams: a journey from wonder to wonder, drifting through eternity into ever-deeper, always changing grandeur, through beauty continually surpassing itself: the ultimate Homeric voyage.

  

  Edward Abbey
  • Great
  • Heaven
  • Forever

• The bond between the United States and Britain has always been strong. It has survived through war and peace, periods of prosperity and economic hardship.

  

  Louis Susman
  • War
  • Strong
  • Peace

• I'd say the majority of my friends are Australians, although I have some good American friends, but I think with Aussies, we just get it. We don't take each other too seriously, which is a relief.

  

  Bella Heathcote
  • Good
  • Friends
  • American

• We never know all the facts and the more we're mindful of how we deal with people, the more opportunity we have to evolve.

  

  Mary McDonnell
  • People
  • Opportunity

• My process is very disempowering to the director anyway, so it's essential that you be respectful. Once we've sort of found the scene, I have to get out of there, because you don't want to split the actor's idea of who's in charge.

  

  David Milch

• The human brain can soften as a result of incessant listening to music with an intent to commit prose.

  

  Donal Henahan
  • Music
  • Brain
  • Listening

• I want to be host of 'SNL.' I want to work with Steven Spielberg, Leonardo DiCaprio, J.J. Abrams, Emma Stone and Tim Burton, Sean Penn, Cameron Crowe. I want to work with Adam Sandler - he is so funny - and Tina Fey and Amy Poehler.

  

  David Mazouz
  • Work
  • Funny

• I don't think there's anything wrong with a little sweat. I'm always moving, so it's normal for me, and it actually makes my curly hair better because it gives it a bit more texture and volume.

  

  Jillian Hervey
  • Moving
  • Hair

• Four personalities are bound to clash.

  

  John Deacon Queen

• I mean I think that Blondie's influence is a little bit in a way more eclectic than those bands.

  

  Debbie Harry Blondie

• I don't hold much of care for 3D. I think it's a passing fad. It came and went in the '60s. I don't see what it adds to the story.

  

  Ciaran Hinds

• I encourage all you superior seekers in the secret depths to devote yourselves to penetrating and clarifying the self, as earnestly as you would put out a fire on the top of your head.

  

  Hakuin Ekaku
  • Fire

• We have to move away from the entirely ad-supported business because the needs of it means that it has to keep driving into privacy, and that's not good for anyone because we all need to have something about us that is secret from some people.

  

  Andrew Keen
  • Business
  • Secret
  • Privacy

• I did my holy communion, and it was amazing how quickly the stories of the Bible and God and Jesus got under my skin.

  

  Joel Edgerton
  • God
  • Amazing
  • Jesus

• Whenever I'm in doubt, I ask myself, 'What would Jesus do?' And then I realize, Jesus got crucified, so maybe his decision-making isn't all that great.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Jesus
  • Decision
  • Realize

• The outstretched arms of Jesus exclude no one, not the drunk in the doorway, the panhandler on the street, gays and lesbians in their isolation, the most selfish and ungrateful in their cocoons, the most unjust of employers and the most overweening of snobs. The love of Christ embraces all without exception.

  

  Brennan Manning
  • Jesus
  • Arms
  • Employers