Brennan Manning Quotes
Though it is true that the church must always dissociate itself from sin, it can never have any excuse for keeping any sinner at a distance.
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I'm advocating that American citizens interested in democracy should stay out of chain stores.
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I grew up very differently than a lot of other people in my hometown in Mississippi. But I can't imagine my life any other way. I flew home and surprised my best friend at his graduation, and I remember turning to my mom and saying, 'My graduation was so much cooler than this.' I had Melissa Joan Hart give my commencement speech.
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Turns out, I couldn't catch them - or even get close to them. I realized that sharks are amazing, beautiful animals who have absolutely no interest in checking me out.
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It is not our sexual preferences, the color of our skin, the language we speak, nor the religion we practice that creates friction, hatred and wars amongst in society. It is our words and the words of our leaders that can create that disparity.
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I get no satisfaction just showing myself in every corner of the world every week.
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It is better for the Arab countries themselves to interfere out of their national, humanitarian, political and military duties and to do what is necessary to stop the bloodshed in Syria.
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We Americans have no commission from God to police the world.
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Preston Sturges is one of my favorites. I learned about dialogue and timing from him - louder, faster, funnier. But I do love Mel Brooks.
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I always say the same thing - believe in what you do, do it, and don't veer away from the truth of it.
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Onstage, I was never the ingenue.
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Heroes aren't always people who save others in the normal sense. Sometimes they're people who keep trying even when things seem impossible.
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The future has never been something that I've been able to plan. Every time I try - I don't care if it's three or four days ahead or a week ahead - it just doesn't pan out.
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I always feel like young people are more emotionally in tune with new and timeless music.
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Only a well-rounded intellect, a spirit nourished in the eternal sources of intelligence and culture, of justice and wisdom, is a safeguard against both indifference and skepticism.
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Contractions, 'U' for 'you' and the like are wonderful to make communication brief and efficient - but we wouldn't want all our talk to be only brief and efficient. Taking pauses out of language would be like taking the net away from a tennis game. Where would all the fun go?
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If you are really challenged, and if you are willing to take the plunge, very often some of the path opens up in front of you.
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I think any self-respecting educational institution ought to judge its policies by its best estimate of what their long-term consequences for their students and for the society will be.
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The conservative idea is not that government has no role. You might have argued that in the thirties when conservatives opposed the New Deal.
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But the purpose of a story is to teach and to please at once, and what it teaches is how to recognize the snares of the world.
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The Board of Inquiry report fails to recognize that the central problem in the Los Angeles Police Department is the culture. The reality is there will not be meaningful reform in the Los Angeles Police Department until the culture is changed.
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We are what we imagine. Our very existence consists in our imagination of ourselves. Our best destiny is to imagine, at least, completely, who and what, and that we are. The greatest tragedy that can befall us is to go unimagined.
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Jerk equals narcissist.Narcissists tend to be risk takers. Risk takers happen to do better in general in businesses. So jerk equals narcissist, equals risk taker.
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I always say that as church falls into demise, we still have the inclination to congregate whether by a night of music or a festival, or just sitting down to listen to some vinyl.
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Though it is true that the church must always dissociate itself from sin, it can never have any excuse for keeping any sinner at a distance.
