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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Fear is... a kind of unintentional storytelling that we are all born knowing how to do.
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We need to ask who is the enemy, and the enemies are terrorists.
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Capitalism is about adventurers who get harmed by their mistakes, not people who harm others with their mistakes.
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I don't feel American. I do feel like a New Yorker. I think there's a real distinction there. A city allows you to become a citizen even when you're not a national.
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When the Bible was first published, bathhouses were mandatory, no one could read, and only the people in the Church could write.
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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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Even befor doing this film, I've always been interested in mythology.
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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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He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder.
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If you hold back in hurdles, you are going to fall over.
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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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The U.S. has been in control of the domain names of the Internet since its inception. If we relinquish this control, it goes possibly to the U.N.
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Revolutionaries see history as a creation of their own spirit, as being made up of a continuous series of violent tugs at the other forces of society - both active and passive, and they prepare the maximum of favourable conditions for the definitive tug (revolution).
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Goodkind is noted for subtle allegories the same way Mt Kilimanjaro is known for floating weightlessly.
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Dancing to a great song with great friends and lots of laughter makes me come alive.
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Everyone wants to rule the world . . . Really, absolutely everyone. That's what it's all about, isn't it? That's what it's always about in the end. And every species believes it's number one. Every individual is firmly convinced that he or she alone has the right to ascend to the throne and issue orders to get rid of others. And in reality everyone is fooling themselves, because up there on the throne it's lonely and cold.
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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.
