Brian D. McLaren Quotes

At their best, religious and spiritual communities help us discover this pure and naked spiritual encounter. At their worst, they simply make us more ashamed, pressuring us to cover up more, pushing us to further enhance our image with the best designer labels and latest spiritual fads, weighing us down with layer upon layer of heavy, uncomfortable, pretentious, well-starched religiosity.

Brian D. McLaren

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• Yesterday, I did some painting then went out to buy an onion and came home and watched 'University Challenge.' The onion was probably the highlight.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Home
  • Challenge
  • Painting

• I think that God prepared me for Chris's death in some ways, because I've seen other people lose their spouses. I've known for a long time that life isn't fair.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• I walked out of 'Harry and the Hendersons.' Harry bugged me; I don't know. Yeah, it's weird because I think Sasquatches are great, but not then. Maybe not that weekend - I don't know. I don't know what it was.

  

  Teddy Sears
  • Great
  • Know
  • Me

• Artists talk in 'art speak.'

  

  Damian Loeb
  • Art
  • Speak
  • Talk

• I'm the guy who's started businesses, I've been a small business owner. I've employed hundreds of Pennsylvanians. I know how to get jobs moving in the private sector, rein in the excesses in Washington, and bring some balance to a town that's lost all balance.

  

  Pat Toomey
  • Business
  • Guy
  • Small

• I write my songs many times to chord progressions on a piano. Unfortunately, I can't keep playing the piano, so I just record it into the software.

  

  Nadia Ali
  • Write
  • Piano
  • Software

• I remember in 1967, when there was that terrible fire on NASA's Apollo 1 rocket that killed three astronauts, my father made pure oxygen and we lit this tiny cup and burned it. Suddenly, we had an unbelievable jet and a fire. You just could see exactly what had happened.

  

  Jack W. Szostak
  • Remember
  • Father
  • Science

• I don't mind doing interviews. I don't mind answering thoughtful questions. But I'm not thrilled about answering questions like, 'If you were being mugged, and you had a lightsaber in one pocket and a whip in the other, which would you use?'

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Mind
  • Questions
  • Thoughtful

• The reality is that Israel is a multi-ethnic, multireligious society, and it makes no sense to insist as a precondition for peace that its neighbors recognize it as 'the Jewish state.'

  

  Kai Bird
  • Society
  • Reality
  • Peace

• And the wind shall say: 'Here were decent godless people: Their only monument the asphalt road And a thousand lost golf balls.'

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • People
  • Lost
  • Road

• The meeting of their shadows or that meet In a book in a barrack, a letter from Malay. But your war ends. And after it you return

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Book
  • War

• Nur derjenige kann ein Künstler seyn, welcher eine eigne Religion, eine originelle Ansicht des Unendlichen hat.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

• What is not good for the swarm is not good for the bee.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Good
  • Bee

• It is by finding out what something is not that one comes closest to understanding what it is.

  

  Alain de Botton
  • Understanding

• Diners are upset that restaurants aren't honoring reservations, and a lot of restaurants help bring this on by overbooking.

  

  Danny Meyer
  • Help

• I love being a grandmother. That feeling you have for your own child - you don't ever think it will be replicated, and I did wonder if I would have to 'pretend' with my grandchildren. But my heart was taken on day one.

  

  Joanna Lumley
  • Heart
  • Feeling
  • Taken

• From Watergate we learned what generations before us have known; our Constitution works. And during Watergate years it was interpreted again so as to reaffirm that no one - absolutely no one - is above the law.

  

  Leon Jaworski
  • Law

• When I was cast for 'Walking Dead,' I was still doing 'Lone Ranger,' so I have my 'Lone Ranger' look with the handlebar mustache. I think everybody appreciates the professional mustache.

  

  Lew Temple
  • Walking
  • Professional

• I couldn't wait to leave school. So I did it as soon as I possibly could at 16. I had no clue what I wanted to do next other than being at school wasn't it and that I was desperate to make my own way as soon as I could.

  

  Jameela Jamil
  • School

• No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Time
  • Idea
  • Army

• My all-time favourite classic use of ricotta is in gnudi: fluffy, cheesy dumplings of almost ethereal, feathery lightness.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Time
  • Classic
  • Cheesy

• Man was engaged in a mad scramble for power and knowledge, but nowhere is there any hint of what he meant to do with it once he had attained it.

  

  Clifford D. Simak
  • Power
  • Knowledge
  • Mad

• Whether you fail or set the world on fire cannot make so very much difference if only you have the opportunity to try for it, to work for it, to think of nothing else!

  

  Gertrude Atherton
  • Work
  • Opportunity
  • Difference

• At their best, religious and spiritual communities help us discover this pure and naked spiritual encounter. At their worst, they simply make us more ashamed, pressuring us to cover up more, pushing us to further enhance our image with the best designer labels and latest spiritual fads, weighing us down with layer upon layer of heavy, uncomfortable, pretentious, well-starched religiosity.

  

  Brian D. McLaren
  • Spiritual communities
  • Spiritual encounter
  • Spiritual fads