Brennan Manning Quotes
Troubadours have always been more important and influential than theologians and bishops.
Brennan Manning
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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
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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
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The best ideas are common property.
Seneca the Younger
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Sitting quietly, doing nothing, Spring comes, and the grass grows, by itself.
Matsuo Basho
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Women endowed with remarkable sensibilities enjoy much; but they also suffer much.
Anna Cora Mowatt
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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
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The child which overbalances itself in learning to walk is experimenting on the law of gravity.
William Stanley Jevons
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My parents' work ethic amazed me. How could they put in such long hours, day after day?
Part of the reason was to keep the family going - to keep me going. I realized that, although we had different values derived from different cultures and wouldn't agree on certain issues, they were good people, incredible people, and I loved and respected them.
Harvey Pekar
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God is love, the bishops tell.
T. H. White
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The English mind is always in a rage. The intellect of the race is wasted in the sordid and stupid quarrels of second-rate politicians or third-rate theologians.
Oscar Wilde
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For if God be on our side, what matter maketh it who be against us, be they bishops, cardinals, popes, or whatsoever names they will?
William Tyndale
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Troubadours have always been more important and influential than theologians and bishops.
Brennan Manning