Brennan Manning Quotes

We have been given God in our souls and Christ in our flesh. We have the power to believe where others deny, to hope where others despair, to love where others hurt.

Brennan Manning

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• Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Hope
  • Me
  • Star

• Every Christmas Eve, the elves will come and give us a new pair of pajamas.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Christmas
  • Pajamas
  • Elves

• Most of the press is in league with government, or with the status quo.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Government
  • Status Quo

• Everything can be satirized.

  

  Sam Kinison
  • Everything

• Once a Cubs fan, always a Cubs fan.

  

  Bailey Chase
  • Always
  • Once
  • Cubs

• Being in a wheelchair for 30 years. I'm not whining about it because I don't dwell on things I can't do anything about, you know. I never really think about until somebody mentions it. I did take a bullet.

  

  Larry Flynt
  • Think
  • Know
  • Never

• There's a monster outside my room, can I have a glass of water?

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Water
  • Monster
  • Glass

• China - if you think about what is the character of China, it's enormous scale. It's bigness.

  

  Zhang Xin
  • Character
  • Think
  • You

• I went to my mum at about seven or eight and said I want to start acting, but the week before, I had said I wanted to do ballet. She said if I took acting classes for a full year, she would look further into it, and that's how it started.

  

  Hailee Steinfeld
  • She
  • Start
  • Year

• Any negotiated, peaceful solution to the problems between the United States and peoples, or any people of Latin America, which does not imply force or the use of force, must be addressed in accordance with international principles and norms.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • People
  • America
  • Latin

• I have been singing randomly, obsessively, obnoxiously for as long as I can remember.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Long
  • Remember
  • Singing

• I read autobiographies because there is too much fiction in my life.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Too Much

• Starring in a science-fiction film doesn't mean you have to act science fiction.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Science
  • Mean
  • Act

• Most Americans would agree that Plowshares is a Theatre of the Absurd.

  

  Daniel Berrigan
  • Theatre
  • Agree
  • Absurd

• When you're acting, you're escaping and hiding behind something. It's cliched to say, but there's a safety there.

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • You
  • Acting
  • Safety

• It's the thing I struggle with every day: the mental diligence and stamina needed to sit in front of the computer, open the file, start writing and to keep doing so, word after word, until I've created the next story. A combination of learning disability and chronic health issues make that the hardest thing for me.

  

  Nalo Hopkinson
  • Writing
  • Health
  • Day

• It always feels good to put something you're proud of out in the world.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • World
  • Good
  • Proud

• There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there's only scarcity of resolve to make it happen.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Love
  • You
  • Opportunity

• I'm annoying to be around because I keep twitching.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Because
  • Keep
  • Annoying

• I like to do really realistic paintings, which requires so much focus; like, if I have to go to the bathroom or change a song, I can't; I'm so in it.

  

  Tali Lennox
  • Song
  • Change
  • Focus

• Despite what Pope Benedict would have us believe, sex without love can be fucking amazing.

  

  Dan Savage
  • Believe
  • Amazing
  • Sex

• Do the best job I can, not hurt our fellow beings on this planet, that's my religion.

  

  Anu Garg
  • Job
  • Hurt

• Even apart from the image of a truly merciless God that contradicts everything we can assume from what Jesus says about the Either of the lost, can we be surprised at a time when retributive punishments without an opportunity of probation are being increasingly abandoned in education and penal justice, that the idea not only of a lifelong, but even eternal punishment of body and soul, seems to many people absolutely monstrous.

  

  Hans Kung
  • People
  • Time
  • God

• We have been given God in our souls and Christ in our flesh. We have the power to believe where others deny, to hope where others despair, to love where others hurt.

  

  Brennan Manning
  • God
  • Believe
  • Love