Brennan Manning Quotes
Put bluntly, the American church today accepts grace in theory but denies it in practice. We say we believe that the fundamental structure of reality is grace, not works - but our lives refute our faith.
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A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero; he can say he doesn't like pie when he sees there isn't enough to go around.
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In 'Haraamkhor,' I have explored a few things which I wouldn't have been able to do in bigger films. The process of shooting this film was so organic that it enhanced me as an actor and an artiste.
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Of course my parents are picky about the girls I date; my parents watch out for me.
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I played softball for a few years growing up. Both my brothers played baseball.
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I was raised a Christian. I'd like to think I have Christian values. I don't attend church.
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I'm tired of being considered some kind of criminal or dangerous throwback for no other reason than that I value, exercise, and defend my rights under the first ten Amendments to the United States Constitution.
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The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.
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One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice-president, and that one word is 'to be prepared'.
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I then moved to the University of Western Ontario where I was made a full professor in 1985.
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I love to get on tracks with brothers like Inspectah Deck, Masta Killa, the GZA. The whole crew is golden, man. When you think of us, you gotta say, 'Yo, these are the Jacksons of hip-hop.'
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Understanding the spirit of our institutions to aim at the elevation of men, I am opposed to whatever tends to degrade them.
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You’ve been a father to me.Your 1960’s speak.Gives me comatose joy like re-run TV.While the mountainside was shining.Wild colors of my destiny
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Losing Bogey was horrible, obviously. Because he was young. And because he gave me my life. I wouldn't have had a - I don't know what would have happened to me if I hadn't met him - I would have had a completely different kind of life. He changed me, he gave me everything. And he was an extraordinary man.
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Not too many people can afford for the wife to stay home and raise the kids.
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Do excellent work for Christ. So that's my heart. It's always been. And I want to be the best I can be. I want to make a difference in my generation.
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I'm a devilish kind of person, but I embrace it. I don't try to fight it. It's proven very well for me.
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Writing is, of course, a solitary occupation. But for many writers, myself included, it's through writing that we make certain vital connections.
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Respectability? Who wants to be respectable? That's spoken like a true loser.
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We think of politics in terms of power and who has the power. Politics is the end to which that power is put.
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I don’t want to accept an idea of life where the success of the self is measured by the success of the written page.
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For about as long as I've been writing fiction, I've kept a record of the books I've read.
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If our children are going to walk away from Christ, we need to raise them in such a way that they understand that to walk away from Jesus is to walk away from a life of faith, risk and adventure and to choose a life that boring, mundane and ordinary.
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Put bluntly, the American church today accepts grace in theory but denies it in practice. We say we believe that the fundamental structure of reality is grace, not works - but our lives refute our faith.
