Brian D. McLaren Quotes

Can you imagine Jesus saying, “Believe that I am the only way. Why? Because I said so, that’s why! And if you don’t believe, then you’re going straight to hell!” But isn’t that how we present him through our slogans?

Brian D. McLaren

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• I love to walk through the streets of Jesus Maria and Pueblo Libre. The Spanish colonial buildings are in bright colors, two stories high, with these intricate wooden, windowed balconies.

  

  Daniel Alarcon
  • High
  • Jesus
  • Walk

• I developed an optical lure that imitates certain types of bioluminescent displays that I think might be attractive to large predators. The other way to do it is just use dead bait, but I think dead bait attracts scavengers, and we wanted to attract active predators.

  

  Edith Widder
  • Think
  • Way
  • Dead

• I guess I'm kind of used to it because it's always been that way for me.

  

  Carly Patterson
  • Way
  • Always
  • Guess

• Television doesn't like politics very well, if you can infer that from the way they cover it.

  

  Jack Germond
  • Way
  • Politics
  • Television

• Every individual has his own style, his own way of presenting himself on and off the field.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
  • Way
  • Style
  • Individual

• Government can do best by simply getting out of the way.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Way
  • Government
  • Best

• Success is a high, but the way up is hard, and you have to give your all.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Up
  • High
  • Success

• Are we going to just change the personalities in the speakership? Or are we going to fundamentally transform the way we do business here in Washington, D.C.?

  

  Dan Webster
  • Business
  • Way
  • Change

• Europeans forget that one-third of the American people have had a personal conversation with Jesus Christ and that the born-again are not just little old ladies in black but also CEOs and provosts of universities and candidates for office.

  

  Edmund White
  • People
  • American
  • Black

• I have said repeatedly that the way to sustainable growth is to bring down inflation to much more reasonable levels.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • Way
  • Growth
  • Down

• Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Heaven
  • Marriage
  • Hell

• During 'Hawthorne', I was constantly trying not to be too outrageous and keep it serious. This has been so refreshing for me because it's such a good outlet for the inner me to just be. That's the whole point of 'Glee' anyways – to just be who you are and that's enough. I really feel that way on set.

  

  Vanessa Lengies
  • Good
  • Way
  • Me

• When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Believe
  • Way
  • You

• I wanted to be a pharmacist. I liked the way our local pharmacist was always dressed in a nice white coat; he looked very calm, you'd give him money, and he'd give you something that you wanted to buy.

  

  Walter Matthau
  • Money
  • Way
  • Nice

• In my opinion, the biggest achievement was by Shankar-Jaikishan. With Raj Kapoor's 'Barsaat,' they changed the way we looked at playback singing.

  

  Lata Mangeshkar
  • Way
  • Opinion
  • Singing

• Jesus, take the wheel.

  

  Carrie Underwood
  • Jesus

• The idea of a spiritual heart transplant is a vivid image to me; once you have the heart of somebody else inside you, then that heart is there. Jesus' heart is inside me, and my heart is gone. So if God were to place a stethoscope against my chest, he would hear the heart of Jesus Christ beating.

  

  Max Lucado
  • God
  • Heart
  • Jesus

• It's made me more expectant of the imminent return of Jesus, and also more sensitive to the people around me. Knowing Jesus will return soon makes me want all the more to tell people about him and all that he offers.

  

  Jerry B. Jenkins
  • People
  • Jesus

• I was a bookworm who aced every test - until third grade, when my teacher handed out a pop quiz about Jesus and the Apostles.

  

  Caroline Leavitt
  • Jesus
  • Teacher

• It is tragic that some Christians have been so battered with stories of a prideful, vindictive God that they have fled from Jesus' fold.

  

  Frederica Mathewes-Green
  • God
  • Jesus

• If you don't have a dream, there is no way to make one come true.

  

  Steven Tyler Aerosmith
  • Dream
  • Way
  • inspirational

• All rehab can do is tell you what’s wrong with you and then suggest ways for you to get better.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Way
  • Rehab

• He was skinning a bear. I was terrified at first, because the corpse resembled a naked man quartered between two trees. He'd created a deadfall trap over some big talus blocks and the bear had fallen in. He used the skin for something and jerked the meat. If it wasn't astonishing enough behavior in a national park, the next day he made donuts, using bear fat for grease ! Surely, by now, he's created an empire somewhere in the world.

  

  Dave Cook
  • Behavior
  • Block
  • Empires

• Can you imagine Jesus saying, “Believe that I am the only way. Why? Because I said so, that’s why! And if you don’t believe, then you’re going straight to hell!” But isn’t that how we present him through our slogans?

  

  Brian D. McLaren
  • Way
  • Jesus
  • Hell