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 do think Jesus would skip church on Sunday morning and instead visit the nursing homes and retirement homes where so many have abandoned their loved ones.
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In general, all cancers have been traditionally characterized by the way they appear under the microscope and the organs in which they arise.
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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'd heard he was good, and what the hell sense does it make not to hire somebody because of their color?
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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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My center is giving way, my right is in retreat; situation excellent. I shall attack.
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Pakistan is a free country, so according to me, in a free country, it's every right of the citizen to live the way they wish.
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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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We are drawn to our television sets each April the way we are drawn to the scene of an accident.
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Money is just a way of keeping score.
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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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I think that Jesus would be disappointed in our ignoring the plight of those around us who are suffering and our focus on our own selfish short-term needs. I think he would be appalled, actually.
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I can always do five, five-minute rounds, any day, even if I was drinking yesterday or doing whatever. I'm a seasoned athlete, an endurance athlete, and I'm always working out.
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A privileging of individual rights over group goods can lead to serious problems, as we’ve seen with the antivaccination movement.
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The ministers and the Jacobins are making the king declare war tomorrow on Austria. The ministers are hoping that this move will frighten the Austrians and that within three weeks we will be negotiating (God forbid that this should happen). May we at last be avenged for all the outrages we have suffered from this country!
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We're not even thinking about (the postseason) right now. We've been in a slump, so we're taking things day by day. We aren't looking to the future because we haven't addressed the present.
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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?
