Brian D. McLaren Quotes

Enter faith, and a whole new factor enters the equation. Words like “impossible” seem out of place. Despair and cynicism feel like insults to God. Hope grows, and love, and therefore motivation to care, to give, to act, to try, to dream, to risk.

Brian D. McLaren

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• I'd just come through cancer in 1995. Which really changed my soul. It really did. It changed me... It made my faith alive - and real. God's real.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • God
  • Real
  • Soul

• Songwriter friends will be like, 'Oh my God, when are you going to put out 'Love Triangle?'' It's just been that song for me that really helped me get a lot of writing sessions and helped jump-start my writing career.

  

  RaeLynn
  • God
  • Friends
  • Career

• It is not the soul alone that should be healthy; if the mind is healthy in a healthy body, all will be healthy and much better prepared to give God greater service.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • God
  • Mind
  • Soul

• I have often thought with wonder of the great goodness of God; and my soul has rejoiced in the contemplation of His great magnificence and mercy. May He be blessed for ever! For I see clearly that He has not omitted to reward me, even in this life, for every one of my good desires.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Life
  • Good
  • Great

• Certainly it is a blessing to have three beautiful kids who are all healthy. God put them here for me to nurture and bring them up and try to keep as close to right as I can. So it's a blessing. It's a big responsibility, but at the same time it's an honor.

  

  Faith Evans
  • Up
  • Time
  • God

• God has been very good to me, for I never dwell upon anything wrong which a person has done, so as to remember it afterwards. If I do remember it, I always see some other virtue in that person.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Good
  • God
  • Done

• I couldn't get that same feeling during the day, with my hands in dirty dish water and the hard sun showing up the dirtiness on the roof tops. And after a time, even at night, the feeling of God didn't last.

  

  Frances Farmer
  • Up
  • Time
  • God

• Each one prays to God according to his own light.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • God
  • Faith
  • Light

• God's not complicated - He's really not. And He helps people in their everyday life so that they can get better in relationships, in their job situations, in getting through grief.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • People
  • Life
  • God

• Negro equality! Fudge!! How long, in the government of a God, great enough to make and maintain this Universe, shall there continue to be knaves to vend, and fools to gulp, so low a piece of demagougeism as this?

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Great
  • God
  • Long

• Nice to meet you, where you been?I could show you incredible things.Magic, madness, heaven, sin.Saw you there and I thought.Oh my God, look at that face.You look like my next mistake.Love's a game, wanna play?.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • God
  • Game
  • Nice

• We can't form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • God
  • Children

• To save the world requires faith and courage: faith in reason, and courage to proclaim what reason shows to be true.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • World
  • True
  • Faith

• My religiosity consists in a humble admiration of the infinitely superior spirit that reveals itself in the little that we, with our weak and transitory understanding, can comprehend of reality. Morality is of the highest importance - but for us, not for God.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • God
  • Reality
  • Understanding

• Business owners should not have to choose between violating their faith and violating the law.

  

  David Green
  • Business
  • Faith
  • Law

• If I'm known as the girl that lost weight and it's been six years later and I've still kept off the 110 pounds, God bless. Because I never kept off 100 pounds before in my life.

  

  Carnie Wilson Wilson Phillips
  • Life
  • God
  • Girl

• I grew up in Nacogdoches, Texas... raised by my grandmother. We were very poor and had no indoor plumbing. My grandmother was a very religious woman, though, and she gave me a lot of faith and inner strength.

  

  Alana Stewart
  • Up
  • She
  • Faith

• We are distressed by the unilateral actions of those provinces that are clearly determined to redefine what our common faith was once.

  

  Peter Akinola
  • Faith

• In the pure, strong hours of the morning, when the soul of the day is at its best, lean upon the window sill of God and look into his face, and get the orders for the day. Then go out into the day with the sense of a hand upon your shoulder and not a chip.

  

  E. Stanley Jones
  • God
  • Soul
  • Strong

• The greatest single distinguishing feature of the omnipotence of God is that our imagination gets lost thinking about it.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • God
  • Imagination
  • Feature

• I would ask: Given the nature of free-market capitalism - where the rule is to rise to the top at all costs - is it possible to have a financial industry hero? And by the way, this is not a pop-culture trend we're talking about. There aren't many financial heroes in literature, theater or cinema.

  

  Martin Scorsese
  • Nature
  • Free
  • Culture

• In such a world-at such a time--'a decent respect for the opinion of mankind'-in the words of our Declaration of Independence-requires that we state plainly the purposes we seek, the principles we hold.

  

  Dwight D. Eisenhower
  • Time
  • World
  • Words

• This new offering is a result of increasing demand for lower numerical ratios. With our new 2.50 axle ratio, customers can now travel at a cruising speed without sacrificing their fuel mileage..

  

  Brad Arnold 3 Doors Down
  • Result
  • Speed
  • Demand

• Enter faith, and a whole new factor enters the equation. Words like “impossible” seem out of place. Despair and cynicism feel like insults to God. Hope grows, and love, and therefore motivation to care, to give, to act, to try, to dream, to risk.

  

  Brian D. McLaren
  • God
  • Faith
  • Cynicism