Brennan Manning Quotes
Childlike in faith means the daily acknowledgment of utter dependence and that I owe my life and being to another.
Quotes to Explore
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In any art, you don't know in advance what you want to say - it's revealed to you as you say it. That's the difference between art and illustration.
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The Beduin could not look for God within him: he was too sure that he was within God.
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I want do a Mandarin language movie. It'll probably be the next movie I do after the one I do next.
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I can't write if someone else is in the house, not even the cleaning woman.
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I see no marks of Wordsworths style of writing or style of thinking in my own work, yet Wordsworth is a constant presence when I write about human beings and their relations to the natural world.
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I don't think you'll ever get enough picking.
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You can disagree without being disagreeable. That's always been my mantra.
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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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I'd experimented with so many different types of music. I had these folky songs I'd written and recorded, but something wasn't quite right.
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After I sold my screenplay adaptation of 'Rain Fall' to Sony Pictures, I had no more creative involvement.
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I think the really good mountaineer is the man with the technical ability of the professional and with the enthusiasm and freshness of approach of the amateur.
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To Southerners like my mother, 'Gone With the Wind' was not just a book; it was an answer, a clenched fist raised to the North, an anthem of defiance.
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Where there is no freedom of speech, there is no conscience.
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The best life is the one in which the creative impulses play the largest part and the possessive impulses the smallest.
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The existence of such a war chest might go far to strengthen our prestige and frighten off any would be assailant.
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And, finally, Lincoln was not a good impromptu speaker; he was at his best when he could read from a carefully prepared manuscript. Though maybe a teleprompter could have helped that!
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All those little acting rules you get, one of the interesting ones is, 'Play the opposite. Don't play 'victim.'
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What if at school you had to take an art class in which you were only taught how to pain a fence? What if you were never shown the paintings of Leonardo da Vinci and Picasso? Would that make you appreciate art? Would you want to learn more about it? I doubt it...Of course this sounds ridiculous, but this is how math is taught.
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Only people who have been allowed to practise freedom can have the grown-up look in their eyes.
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Home is the most popular, and will be the most enduring of all earthly establishments.
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The church doctrines of obedience to authority, repentance, fear of punishment, self-abnegation, acceptance of outer direction rather than inner assurance, elevation of faith over reason, and intolerance make institutionalized religion an ideal instrument of social constraint.
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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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Childlike in faith means the daily acknowledgment of utter dependence and that I owe my life and being to another.
