Brennan Manning Quotes

The noonday devil of the Christian life is the temptation to lose the inner self while preserving the shell of edifying behavior. Suddenly I discover that I am ministering to AIDS victims to enhance my resume. I find I renounced ice cream for Lent to lose five excess pounds... I have fallen victim to what T.S. Eliot calls the greatest sin: to do the right thing for the wrong reason.

Brennan Manning

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• At the age of 13, I felt it was up to me to decide whether I wanted to go to church or be with my mates, and I chose to go to church.

  

  Gareth Gates
  • Me
  • Church
  • Decide

• I think having imaginary friends is an amazing coping mechanism. It's pretty wonderful, and it makes a lot of sense to me.

  

  K. A. Applegate
  • Friends
  • Pretty
  • Me

• My dad is a Chatty Cathy, the social butterfly; friendly; knows everybody in the whole world by six degrees; tells me that every performance is the greatest he's ever seen, every new outfit is the coolest. Constant cheerleader.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • World
  • Dad
  • Friendly

• I hope she misses the cut. She doesn't belong here.

  

  Vijay Singh
  • Hope
  • Here
  • Belong

• It's high time for the art world to admit that the avant-garde is dead. It was killed by my hero, Andy Warhol, who incorporated into his art all the gaudy commercial imagery of capitalism (like Campbell's soup cans) that most artists had stubbornly scorned.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Time
  • World
  • Art

• We are extremely focused on building some of the assets which are going into mid-India, semi-urban and rural, and that's our DNA. We are building a retail bank, and a lot of the deposit base is still in urban India.

  

  Uday Kotak
  • Building
  • Bank
  • Retail

• I always take hundreds and hundreds of pictures. I used to work for 'National Geographic,' and they gave us a lot of film.

  

  Yann Arthus-Bertrand
  • Work
  • Always
  • Film

• When a lion doesn't get its prey, it remains hungry. When the prey saves himself, he has not won, but has saved his life.

  

  Uday Kotak
  • Life
  • Hungry
  • Lion

• I couldn't hold it together today. George Clooney asked me if I was OK, and I practically collapsed. I couldn't stop crying, I had to go off sobbing like an idiot.

  

  Candice Bergen
  • Today
  • Stop
  • Crying

• I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.

  

  Irvin S. Cobb
  • Hope
  • Learned
  • Illness

• Movies are my religion and God is my patron. I'm lucky enough to be in the position where I don't make movies to pay for my pool. When I make a movie, I want it to be everything to me; like I would die for it.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • God
  • Movie
  • Die

• If you stood me in a costume next to a computer graphic of the same-looking character, I think there would be a difference. And many movie fans I've spoken to would rather see an actor in a costume than CG.

  

  Warwick Davis
  • Character
  • Movie
  • Think

• Most single women have been in that situation where there is a silent guy in your group. You don't see him as boyfriend material. He's just there, but you know all the same people.

  

  Zoe Lister-Jones
  • People
  • Women
  • Guy

• I had an awful lot to say in what I wore as Romana.

  

  Lalla Ward
  • Say
  • Lot
  • Had

• In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at hand. The inevitable must be accepted and turned to advantage.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Question
  • Hand
  • Theory

• I'm a hopeless romantic.

  

  Lance Bass NSYNC
  • Romantic
  • Hopeless

• We have grown accustomed to the wonders of clean water, indoor plumbing, laser surgery, genetic engineering, artificial joints, replacement body parts, and the much longer lives that accompany them. Yet we should remember that the vast majority of humans ever born died before the age of 10 from an infectious disease.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • Remember
  • Age
  • Water

• I am not a multimillionaire. I don't own a yacht or a Ferrari. I live in a 60-square- metre flat. My needs are simple.

  

  Ferran Adria
  • Live
  • Needs
  • Ferrari

• One never quite stops believing, some doubt remains forever".

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Forever
  • Doubt
  • Remains

• I was sent the script for 'Silver Linings' when I was doing a play in D.C. at The Kennedy Center with Cate Blanchett and I was sent the script and asked if I was interested, and I said 'Oh, boy am I!'

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • Boy
  • Doing
  • Silver

• I support basic research, which can lead to discoveries that change our world, expand our horizons and save lives.

  

  Lamar S. Smith
  • World
  • Change
  • Support

• The climax of terror is reached when the police state begins to devour its own children, when yesterday's executioner becomes today's victim.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Victim
  • Terror
  • Police State

• Remarkably, [Sen. Dianne] Feinstein was reading her statement. So her mare's-nest of inapposite words and unclear thoughts cannot be excused as symptoms of Biden's Disease, that form of logorrhea that causes victims, such as Sen. Joe Biden, to become lost on the syntactical back roads of their extemporaneous rhetoric.

  

  George Will
  • Reading
  • Victim
  • Rhetoric

• The noonday devil of the Christian life is the temptation to lose the inner self while preserving the shell of edifying behavior. Suddenly I discover that I am ministering to AIDS victims to enhance my resume. I find I renounced ice cream for Lent to lose five excess pounds... I have fallen victim to what T.S. Eliot calls the greatest sin: to do the right thing for the wrong reason.

  

  Brennan Manning
  • Behavior
  • Discover
  • Victim