Brian D. McLaren Quotes

But in the end you cannot serve two masters, Theos and Elohim, the god of the Greco-Roman philosophers and Caesars and the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the violent god of profit proclaimed by the empire and the compassionate God of justice proclaimed by the prophets. You can try to hybridize them and compromise them for centuries, but like oil and water they eventually separate and prove incompatible. They refuse to alloy. They produce irreconcilable narratives and create different worlds.

Brian D. McLaren

• Caesars
• Theos
• Elohim
• Greco-Roman philosophers
• God of Abraham

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• Nothing new here, except my marrying, which to me is a matter of profound wonder.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Me
  • Wonder
  • Matter

• Rap culture is interesting and different and has purpose but it has a non-romantic view of life and of social feelings. There may be a void in that.

  

  Hal David
  • Life
  • Different
  • May

• When people connect to my work, it makes me feel great. A lot of that stuff is really deep, and when I play something and people feel what I feel, and use it in important situations in their lives, like at weddings or funerals, that's so powerful. It means I can connect with them on an important level.

  

  Xavier Rudd
  • People
  • Work
  • Great

• A person who publishes a book willfully appears before the populace with his pants down. If it is a good book nothing can hurt him. If it is a bad book nothing can help him.

  

  Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • Good
  • Book
  • Bad

• I've been directing for 25 years almost, and I've only directed nine films in that time because I like to be careful.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • Time
  • Years
  • Be Careful

• My mom has been my support system from day one. Admiring the type of person she is gives me a sense of what to look for in my ideal cheerleader when the time comes.

  

  OMI
  • Time
  • She
  • Support

• Football, to me, is a passion, more than a game. It is everything. But more than anything, it is love for Roma. I have always been Roma. There has never been anything else.

  

  Francesco Totti
  • Game
  • Passion
  • Football

• I'm a natural blonde. I was a towhead as a kid, and then it got ashier when I was 18.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Natural
  • Kid
  • Blonde

• Al Gore is an heir to the old czars and commissars. He never saw a regulation he didn't like.

  

  Sam Wyly
  • Never
  • Old
  • Regulation

• All breathing, existing, living, sentient creatures should not be slain, nor treated with violence, nor abused, nor tormented, nor driven away.

  

  Mahavira
  • Violence

• Maud Muller looked and sighed: 'Ah me!That I the Judge's bride might be!He would dress me up in silks so fine,And praise and toast me at his wine.'

  

  Vanity
  • Up
  • Judge
  • Wine

• unconcerned but not indifferent

  

  Man Ray

• A ball player has to be kept hungry to become a big leaguer. That's why no boy from a rich family has ever made the big leagues.

  

  Joe DiMaggio
  • Family
  • Why
  • Player

• You have to have sharp elbows if you want to change something.

  

  James Carville

• In television you don't have a lot of time to spend with the role or the script. Typically you get a script a week prior to shooting. Sometimes it's even less time, not enough time to dream about the role.

  

  Chadwick Boseman
  • Time
  • Dream

• The best way I know to get good work out of people is to create a good environment so that people have a good experience. I try to always hold up my own end by being prepared.

  

  Jeremy Podeswa
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• Throughout my high school years, I was very quiet, I didn't have many friends. I distanced myself from a lot of people.

  

  Alessia Cara
  • People
  • School
  • Friends

• There were times in my career when I would try to write songs like Bob Dylan... Artists get hooked up in that. To be a follower, you lose.

  

  Del Shannon
  • Up
  • Career

• God has spoken to man, and the Bible is his Word, given to us to make us wise unto salvation... Godliness means responding to God's revelation in trust and obedience, faith and worship, prayer and praise, submission and service. Life must be seen and lived in the light of God's Word. This, and nothing else, is true religion.

  

  J. I. Packer
  • Life
  • God
  • True

• How sad it is! I shall grow old, and horrid, and dreadful. But this picture will remain always young. It will never be older than this particular day of June. . . . If it was only the other way! If it was I who were to be always young, and the picture that were to grow old! For this — for this — I would give everything! Yes, there is nothing in the whole world I would not give!

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • World
  • Sad
  • Young

• Going back to the noir fiction of the 30s, 40s and 50s. It's very contemporary.

  

  Jeff Goldblum
  • Contemporary
  • Going Back
  • Noir Fiction

• My point is there's a hidden Scotland in anyone who speaks the Northern Ireland speech. It's a terrific complicating factor, not just in Northern Ireland, but Ireland generally.

  

  Seamus Heaney
  • Speech
  • Factors
  • Terrific

• I'd like to work with Outkast, I'd like to work with RZA, I'd like to work with Timbaland, York, a whole bunch of people.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • People
  • Whole
  • Bunch

• But in the end you cannot serve two masters, Theos and Elohim, the god of the Greco-Roman philosophers and Caesars and the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the violent god of profit proclaimed by the empire and the compassionate God of justice proclaimed by the prophets. You can try to hybridize them and compromise them for centuries, but like oil and water they eventually separate and prove incompatible. They refuse to alloy. They produce irreconcilable narratives and create different worlds.

  

  Brian D. McLaren
  • Caesars
  • Theos
  • Elohim