Brennan Manning Quotes
Grace is sufficient even though we huff and puff with all our might to try and find something or someone that it cannot cover. Grace is enough...
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I propose a Constitutional Amendment providing that, if any public official, elected or appointed, at any level of government, is caught lying to any member of the public for any reason, the punishment shall be death by public hanging.
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I went to Iceland in 1861 and went over nearly every bit of the ground made famous by the adventures of Grettir.
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Today, the Muslim world is the poorest of the global powers.
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My favorite ski slope is the kind that winds up at the cafeteria. My children, though, usually insist that I get out and take on a few expert runs, in a game called 'Let's See if We Can Get Our Inheritance Early.'
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I don't like writing with real people in mind.
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I don't think that technology is going to allow for greater subjugation of people. I think it's gonna give them more freedom.
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I then moved to the University of Western Ontario where I was made a full professor in 1985.
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My dad used to say that life's a journey, but somebody screwed up and lost the map.
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[When asked how many husbands she'd had:] Two of my own, my dear, and several of my friends'.
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I would tell your generation, wherever you are on the totem poll - whether you're halfway there or at the bottom, don't despise small beginnings; small beginnings get you ready for great things.
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...funny how people want a return to the good ole days. Of coarse the good ole days of being a rich white plantation owner. Everyone seems to forget the poor white farmer.
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As a Nobel Prize winner I cannot but regret that the award was never given to Mark Twain, nor to Henry James, speaking only of my own countrymen. Greater writers than these also did not receive the prize. I would have been happy - happier - today if the prize had been given to that beautiful writer Isak Dinesen.
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The capacity to be either happy or unhappy is determined by the manner in which you react to whatever happens.
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You will not achieve happiness if you don't work hard; and it's a shame not to want to work hard.
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From the window, I watch the city and the freeway. In the distance, the sky-rises look like mystic spires, unbearably close and far. I want to pick them up and eat them. I want to scream out loud sometimes, but I never do.
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Concentrate on counting your blessings and you'll have little time to count anything else.
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One of the shocks of a 50th birthday is realizing the fundamental fact that your youth is irrevocably over.
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Man is entitled by birthright to a share of the earth's produce sufficient to fill the needs of his existence.
