Brennan Manning Quotes
Creation discloses a power that baffles our minds and beggars our speech. We are enamored and enchanted by God's power. We stutter and stammer about God's holiness. We tremble before God's majesty... and yet, we grow squeamish and skittish before God's love.
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The migration wave can be stopped.
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I'm one of those idiots; when I'm working in America, I wake up with an American accent and stay with it all day till make-up comes off.
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All true happiness, pure joy, sweet bounties, and untroubled pleasure lie in knowledge of God and love of God; they cannot exist without them.
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You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.
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If there is one thing that makes me unique, it's that I riff a lot.
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I love dressing up for events; to me it's almost like wearing a costume for the evening.
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Basically, what it comes down to is I love what I do. I don't do it for fame. I don't do it for money. I just love it.
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I'm never happy with what I've written. You imagine, before you start, there's a cathedral, and the moment it starts on the page, it's a garden shed. And then you just try to make it the best shed you can.
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Every revolution, bloody or not, has two phases. The first phase is defined by the struggle for freedom, the second by the struggle for power and revenge on the votaries of the ancien regime.
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Being happy is of the utmost importance. Success in anything is through happiness.
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I believe we need a more opportunistic and democratic approach to lunar exploration, now that we're shifting from U.S. government-sponsored space exploration to private expeditions.
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You take stuff from different places, and sometimes you stick a line in because it rhymes, not because it makes sense.
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Sex got me into trouble from the age of fifteen: I'm hoping that by the time I'm seventy I'll straighten it out.
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You learn in life that the only person you can really correct and change is yourself.
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Where there is peace, there cannot be chaos; the two cannot coexist at the same time.
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The creation of a nuclear weapons convention is not only achievable, it is imperative if civilisation is to survive.
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Our modern lifestyle is not a political creation. Before 1700, everybody was poor as hell. Life was short and brutish. It wasn't because we didn't have good politicians; we had some really good politicians. But then we started inventing - electricity, steam engines, microprocessors, understanding genetics and medicine and things like that. Yes, stability and education are important - I'm not taking anything away from that - but innovation is the real driver of progress.
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Speech is the best show a man puts on.
