Brennan Manning Quotes

Ruthless trust ultimately comes down to this: faith in the person of Jesus and hope in his promise.

Brennan Manning

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• I don't have many friends in Philadelphia. I sort of have one. I have the dog and someone else.

  

  H. G. Bissinger
  • Friends
  • Dog
  • Philadelphia

• My father was a civil servant in northern India where I was born. As a boy I saw the dire effects of poverty and illiteracy, especially on women and children. It often seemed that the only thing separating me from them was luck.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Women
  • Children
  • Father

• Language is the most extraordinary invention in the history of humanity, the one which came before everything and which makes it possible to share everything.

  

  J. M. G. Le Clezio
  • History
  • Humanity
  • Language

• I've always written pop songs. I tend to take inspiration from more experimental genres, like ambient music, but at the root of the song, it's verse-chorus-verse.

  

  Washed Out
  • Music
  • Song
  • Inspiration

• I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Years
  • Old
  • Two

• I'd say the best is when I was in Africa, I saw a hippo in a house. Someone had a pet hippo. And they're meant to be one of the most dangerous animals on the planet, and they had one that was sort of just wandering in and out of their house, just sort of roaming about.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • House
  • Best
  • Animals

• My real dream is that everybody will see their self-interest tied up with someone else, whether or not they see them, and see that as an opportunity for growing closer together as a culture and as a world.

  

  Majora Carter
  • Up
  • World
  • Real

• No one wants to see a person on TV who's super-ultra-cool. That's Superman, that's a thing of the past. Heroes are now flawed, and have terrible tempers, you know? They're real people.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • People
  • Real
  • Past

• I do not make any apologies for my manner or personality. I come from a long line of very strong, black African-American women who neither bend nor bow. I haven't had very good modeling in submission.

  

  Faye Wattleton
  • Good
  • Long
  • Women

• Whatever requires an undue amount of thought or trouble or involves a large expenditure of effort and causes our whole life to revolve, as it were, around solicitude for the flesh must be avoided by Christians.

  

  Saint Basil
  • Life
  • Effort
  • Thought

• Any time you bring sexuality into the comics pages, you have to brace for pushback.

  

  Garry Trudeau
  • Time
  • You
  • Sexuality

• I'm saying that the depth of exploration of the male psyche and the female psyche is uneven. I see further, deeper renderings of what it means to be a man.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Man
  • Saying
  • Exploration

• The bravest thing I've ever done is fly to New York. I'm simply terrified of aeroplanes - I am the woman you see weeping at the airport.

  

  Samantha Bond
  • Woman
  • Fly
  • Airport

• The more that everyone has access to the same educational opportunities, the more society will tend to accept some receiving disproportionate rewards. After all, they themselves have a chance to be winners.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • Society
  • Opportunities

• You have to constantly redefine who you are.

  

  M.I.A.
  • You
  • Who
  • Redefine

• The millennials were raised in a cocoon, their anxious parents afraid to let them go out in the park to play. So should we be surprised that they learned to leverage technology to build community, tweeting and texting and friending while their elders were still dialing long-distance?

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Long
  • Parents
  • Community

• Prison's a walk in the park compared with being sectioned, mate, it really is.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • Being
  • Walk
  • Prison

• I'm not a politician, but ISIS is a problem, and this matter should be solved very quickly. This will affect existing production, it will affect investment, it will affect the behaviour of people. It will affect the area tremendously.

  

  Abdallah Salem el-Badri
  • People
  • Problem
  • Investment

• There's always a side of a woman that likes a man from the other side of the tracks.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Man
  • Always
  • Woman

• No collection of people who are all waiting for the same thing are capable of holding a natural conversation. Even if the thing they are waiting for is only a taxi.

  

  Ben Elton
  • People
  • Waiting

• The truth is there are a million steps, and we don't even know what the steps are, and worse, at any given moment we may not be willing or even able to take them; and still worse, they are different for you and they are always changing. I have come to believe the sooner we will fall in love with the God who keeps shaking things up, keeps changing the path, keeps rocking the boat to test our faith in Him, teaching us to not rely on easy answers, bullet points, magic mantras, or genies in lamps, but rather in His guidance, His existence, His mercy, and His love.

  

  Donald Miller
  • Up
  • God
  • Believe

• To me, Faith is not just a noun but also a verb...

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • Faith
  • Verb
  • Noun

• Ruthless trust ultimately comes down to this: faith in the person of Jesus and hope in his promise.

  

  Brennan Manning
  • Hope
  • Faith
  • Trust