Brennan Manning Quotes
The dominant characteristic of an authentic spiritual life is the gratitude that flows from trust — not only for all the gifts that I receive from God, but gratitude for all the suffering. Because in that purifying experience, suffering has often been the shortest path to intimacy with God.
Brennan Manning
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In general, states do not count on pledges of 'no more war' from their neighbors. Israel's army never counted on it from Egypt, for example.
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I'm not angry. And I don't like the thing of the 'angry black woman,' either.
Naomi Campbell
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Jack Layton
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Hans Zimmer
You know, every time a summer movie comes out, people think they're gonna get rich off of the merchandise.
Aaron McGruder
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Ragnar Frisch
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Dakota Fanning
Gifts have ribbons, not strings.
Vanna Bonta
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E. W. Howe
In short, competition has to shoulder the responsibility of explaining all the meaningless ideas of the economists, whereas it should rather be the economists who explain competition.
Karl Marx
Fun without sell gets nowhere, but sell without fun tends to become obnoxious.
Leo Burnett
I have been robbed of three million dollars all told. Everyone today is playing my stuff and I don't even get credit. Kansas City style, Chicago style, New Orleans style hell, they're all Jelly Roll style.
Ferdinand Joseph LaMothe
Anyone who draws attention to himself as an individual, is viewed with suspicion. We acquired this tendency, of course, from America, and we must resist it: levelling, and imitation of what others are already doing.
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Do you ever think? The voice, God forbid.
Samuel Beckett
The dominant characteristic of an authentic spiritual life is the gratitude that flows from trust — not only for all the gifts that I receive from God, but gratitude for all the suffering. Because in that purifying experience, suffering has often been the shortest path to intimacy with God.
Brennan Manning
