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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• 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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• An Atheist believes that a hospital should be built instead of a church. An atheist believes that deed must be done instead of prayer said. An atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death. He wants disease conquered, poverty vanished, war eliminated.

  

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• We are not to consider ourselves, while here, as at church or school, to listen to the harangues of speculative piety; we are here to talk of the political interests committed to our charge.

  

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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.

  

  Brennan Manning
  • Church
  • Excuse
  • Sinner