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?
Quotes to Explore
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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.
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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.
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I guess I'm kind of used to it because it's always been that way for me.
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Television doesn't like politics very well, if you can infer that from the way they cover it.
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Every individual has his own style, his own way of presenting himself on and off the field.
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Government can do best by simply getting out of the way.
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Success is a high, but the way up is hard, and you have to give your all.
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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.?
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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.
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I have said repeatedly that the way to sustainable growth is to bring down inflation to much more reasonable levels.
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Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.
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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.
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When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable.
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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.
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Jesus, take the wheel.
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I was a bookworm who aced every test - until third grade, when my teacher handed out a pop quiz about Jesus and the Apostles.
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It is tragic that some Christians have been so battered with stories of a prideful, vindictive God that they have fled from Jesus' fold.
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Christians might say that you can't live a more meaningful life without Jesus. Well, that's absolutely not true. You can. You can enjoy a sunrise whether you know Jesus or not.
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A hundred years from now, people will listen to the music of the Beatles the same way we listen to Mozart.
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Great way to fight a war - be prepared to defend yourself for winning.
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Ambition is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.
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'Batman' was scary.
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Death is the least civilized rite of passage.
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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?
