Brennan Manning Quotes
Accepting the reality of our sinfulness means accepting our authentic self. Judas could not face his shadow; Peter could. The latter befriended the impostor within; the former raged against him.
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I thought of the soul as resembling a castle, formed of a single diamond or a very transparent crystal, and containing many rooms, just as in Heaven there are many mansions.
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We need to ask who is the enemy, and the enemies are terrorists.
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I am in the infantry for 17 weeks and after that I don't know where I am going.
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The Barenboim Foundation has nothing to do with politics.
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We all know him: everybody has an Archie Bunker in their family, so you love to laugh at him, and you never take it personally; everybody just has a ball laughing at him.
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I'm a natural blonde, but I feel like a brunette.
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Responsibility for the proper conduct of children was not confined to their parents only. When they misbehaved, they misbehaved against the community. And a senior member of the community was expected to do something about it.
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I go to the gym and work through a routine. But if you see someone with a personal trainer, you know they do 10 times more than you do. You give up your sense of identity. If you watch 'The Biggest Loser,' you see people give up their identity to become something else.
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I am not in a hurry to do Hindi films. If it is destined, when it has to happen, it will.
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...we explained simply what contraception was; that abortion was the wrong way - no matter how early it was performed it was taking a life; that contraception was the better way, the safer way - it took a little time, a little trouble, but was well worth while in the long run, because life had not yet begun.
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Not surprisingly, the insurance lobby recoils in horror at the prospect of automatic coverage ( including, when it was first proposed, Social Security), no matter how efficient it may be. Automatic coverage eliminates sales commissions and profit.
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I will not concede for a moment that old privileges should not dwindle. They cannot dwindle fast enough.
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I learned that the songs that mean the most to me are the songs that I write by myself. While there were people I wrote really well with, particularly Gary Nicholson and Delbert McClinton, and I really enjoyed the experience, I came away from it feeling like I need to write by myself.
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In general, fashion is challenging. Everything from clothes to fragrances.
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A lot of people don't know the passion I have for Asian American cinema.
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W. E. B Dubois used the NAACP platform for two decades to discredit the character, reputation, and fund-raising efforts of capitalist and Tuskegee University founder, Booker T. Washington.
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Invest in a trainer. You see the progress so quickly, and you push yourself in new ways.
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Everybody lives their lives differently. They have a different perspective. They've been through different things in love. They've cried about different things.
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In every age and every man there is something to praise as well as to blame.
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The truth is that there is no terror untempered by some great moral idea.
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Wrestlers are a little more dedicated than, and are different from, the other people, which may be strange.
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In life sometimes we have to let go of the good things so better things can fall into place.
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I've often said that all poetry is political. This is because real poems deal with a human response to reality and politics is part of reality, history in the making. Even if a poet writes about sitting in a glass house drinking tea, it reflects politics.
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Accepting the reality of our sinfulness means accepting our authentic self. Judas could not face his shadow; Peter could. The latter befriended the impostor within; the former raged against him.
