Brennan Manning Quotes

Troubadours have always been more important and influential than theologians and bishops.

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• [On being first black woman to earn a PhD in economics and first black woman admitted to Pennsylvania bar:] I never looked for anybody to hold the door open for me. I knew well that the only way I could get that door open was to knock it down: because I knocked all of them down.

  

  Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander
  • Black
  • Door

• I find it hard to believe that so many people doubt the existence of God. I mean, seriously, I'm here, so is it such a stretch to imagine that another all-powerful being could exist somewhere in the universe?

  

  Zach Braff
  • People
  • God
  • Believe

• The best ideas are common property.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Ideas
  • Property

• Sitting quietly, doing nothing, Spring comes, and the grass grows, by itself.

  

  Matsuo Basho
  • Spring
  • Comes
  • Sitting

• Women endowed with remarkable sensibilities enjoy much; but they also suffer much.

  

  Anna Cora Mowatt
  • Women
  • Enjoy
  • Suffer

• In their role as celestial servants to humans on earth, Angels act variously as guardians, guides, teachers, truth-givers and comforters, protectors of the righteous, punishers of the wicked, and more.

  

  David Connolly
  • Teacher
  • Angel
  • Righteous

• I could easily fill up each week with going to see debuts of friends' compositions alone. When you add in all of the bands I'm interested in catching and all of the improvisers that I still love, it gets almost impossibly daunting. I try to do as much as I can.

  

  David First
  • Trying
  • Band
  • Week

• Performing is really close to being in studio but performing takes over because being in the studio is two things; the first thing is that it is really beautiful to improvise and jam, but afterwards it becomes hard because it's very rare that a song will come together quickly. Most of the time it's back and forth and trial and error. You start questioning whether the song is good or not. So that can be quite tough.

  

  NAO
  • Beautiful
  • Tough
  • Performing

• Man is lost and is wandering in a jungle where real values have no meaning. Real values can have meaning to man only when he steps on to the spiritual path, a path where negative emotions have no use.

  

  Sai Baba
  • Real
  • Man
  • Lost

• In his book Stand Ye In Holy Places, President Harold B. Lee wrote that one is converted when his eyes see what he ought to see, his ears hear what he ought to hear and his heart understands what he ought to understand. "And what he ought to see, hear and understand is truth-eternal truth-and then practice it. That is conversion," he wrote.

  

  Harold B. Lee
  • Heart
  • Book
  • Truth

• Any reasonable economist will tell you that it's nearly impossible to isolate the impact of right-to-work laws on a state's job growth. A multitude of other factors intervene. However, one thing the numbers can show is that right-to-work laws have a negative effect on the wages of workers in that state.

  

  Eliot Spitzer
  • Work
  • Job
  • Growth

• The greatest thing is a life of obedience in the routine things of everyday life. No amount of fine feeling can take the place of faithful doing.

  

  William Barclay
  • Life
  • Faith
  • Feelings

• The child which overbalances itself in learning to walk is experimenting on the law of gravity.

  

  William Stanley Jevons
  • Children
  • Science
  • Learning

• It's motivating to think that you, as one person, can make a world of difference in someone else's life.

  

  Natalya Neidhart
  • Life
  • Difference
  • Motivating

• God is love, the bishops tell.

  

  T. H. White
  • God
  • Hell
  • Love Is

• Agape is something of the understanding, creative, redemptive goodwill for all men. It is a love that seeks nothing in return. It is an overflowing love; it's what theologians would call the love of God working in the lives of men. And when you rise to love on this level, you begin to love men, not because they are likeable, but because God loves them.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Understanding
  • Love Of God
  • Theologians

• On Saint Paul, he's probably one of the best theologians of all time, but I don't believe that some of his teachings are appropriate today.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • Theologians
  • Saint Paul

• I have to go on being a priest and bishop, that is, to celebrate God and what God has done in Jesus, and to offer in God's name whatever I can discern of God's perspective on the world around - something which involves both challenge and comfort.

  

  Rowan Williams
  • World
  • Perspective
  • Challenges

• Troubadours have always been more important and influential than theologians and bishops.

  

  Brennan Manning
  • Theologians
  • Bishops
  • Troubadour