Brennan Manning Quotes

Let us be bold enough to ask ourselves as Christians whether the Church of the Lord Jesus in the United States has anything to say to our nation and its ideologies of materialism, possessiveness, and the worship of financial security. Are we courageous enough to be a sign of contradiction to consumerism through our living faith in Jesus Christ? Are we committed enough to his gospel to become a countercurrent to the drift?

Brennan Manning

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• One reason we love fiction is because stories have a comforting shape. They provide a resolution that's lacking in our regular lives.

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
  • Reason
  • Stories
  • Lives

• My biggest hero was Roman Gabriel, who was the QB of the Rams, and Roger Staubach. Those were the two guys I tired to emulate when I was little.

  

  Warren Moon
  • Hero
  • Tired
  • Two

• That's the great thing about art. Anybody can do it if you just believe. With practice, you can make great paintings.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Great
  • Believe
  • Art

• Any threat to the health and safety of a child in any school or classroom is unacceptable.

  

  Kate Brown
  • School
  • Health
  • Safety

• I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Mind
  • Society
  • Political

• I have written every one of my novels to convince somebody of something.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Something
  • Convince
  • Novels

• You know, every time a summer movie comes out, people think they're gonna get rich off of the merchandise.

  

  Aaron McGruder
  • People
  • Time
  • Movie

• The cheapest natural gas in the world is in the United States.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • World
  • Environmental

• I have a rich, full, textured life.

  

  Lainie Kazan
  • Life
  • Rich
  • Full

• Writing is, of course, a solitary occupation. But for many writers, myself included, it's through writing that we make certain vital connections.

  

  Elizabeth Berg
  • Writing

• Most of my inspiration comes from mistakes, so every time I make a massive mistake, that usually affects me so much that I have to process that via song.

  

  Nicholas James Murphy
  • Song
  • Mistake
  • Inspiration

• The Netherlands and the UK are both seafaring nations and so our ability to create jobs and to generate future growth is built on the free market.

  

  Mark Rutte
  • Future
  • Free
  • Growth

• Our stories are different; our pain is the same.

  

  Betty Buckley
  • Different
  • Pain

• I'm always proud of what I've done and what I continue to do.

  

  Lisa Lampanelli
  • Done
  • Proud

• Horror films are very effective to me; they have an impact on me. I think that real life things scare me a lot more.

  

  Alexandra Daddario
  • Life
  • Real

• Onstage, I was never the ingenue.

  

  Kristen Johnston

• All writers know how important a good title is. It's the first thing readers see, along with a knock-your-socks-off cover - a seductive 'come hither' for the story within.

  

  Caroline Leavitt
  • Good
  • Important
  • Seductive

• Big climbs energize me. It's all the other aspects of being a pro-climber that wear me down. The travel and expeditions and training can become pretty tiring. But the actual big climbs - that's what I live for.

  

  Alex Honnold
  • Live
  • Pretty
  • Training

• Being a Georgia author is a rather specious dignity, on the same order as, for the pig, being a Talmadge ham.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Author
  • Georgia
  • Pig

• Hope is paltry food for living.

  

  John McAfee
  • Hope
  • Food

• Leisure is the most challenging responsibility a man can be offered.

  

  William Russell
  • Responsibility
  • Challenges
  • Leisure

• My obligation as president, and what I promise the country, is that the courts will be able to do their job free of all pressure.

  

  Ricardo Lagos
  • Country
  • President
  • Promise

• Funk, gospel, blues is all out of slavery times, out of depression, out of sorrow.

  

  Eunice Kathleen Waymon
  • Slavery
  • Depression
  • Sorrow

• Let us be bold enough to ask ourselves as Christians whether the Church of the Lord Jesus in the United States has anything to say to our nation and its ideologies of materialism, possessiveness, and the worship of financial security. Are we courageous enough to be a sign of contradiction to consumerism through our living faith in Jesus Christ? Are we committed enough to his gospel to become a countercurrent to the drift?

  

  Brennan Manning
  • Church
  • Security
  • Gospel