Brian D. McLaren Quotes
Jesus called disciples so He could send them out as apostles. They were called together to learn so they could be sent out to teach and serve.
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I was the first one in my family to go away to college. I came from a small town where there was no guidance in the high school at all. It was a mill town, and I never knew anyone who made their living from the arts. When you did go away to college, you went away to be something - an engineer, or a teacher, or a chemist.
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I love the outdoors. I love climbing mountains.
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A key reason that elections are run so badly is that in most states, political partisans are in charge.
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Revolutions are the locomotives of history.
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I was always fascinated with science, and being Persian, it's instilled in us at a young age to follow something very academic in our career.
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So for me, I had to get something going to promote the new project that I got. I decided to come with the 'Lost Jewelry' EP, which is a mixtape but it's more sexier because it's all fresh music.
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I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.
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If out of reading this book you get just one thing-an increased tendency to think always in terms of other people’s point of view, and see things from their angle-if you get that one thing out of this book, it may easily prove to be one of the building blocks of your career.
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If that was on my road the council would be like 'Get that down, its a deathtrap!'
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If the US and Europe genuinely support the people, as they say, they must not betray our peaceful revolution. It is the expression of the democratic will of the overwhelming majority of the people of Yemen.
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The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.
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I'm a hard worker. I'm a people person.
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The problem with experiments has always been that human beings make the decisions on whether or not the animals have benefitted from the treatment.
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Bacteria are single-celled organisms. Bacteria are the model organisms for everything that we know in higher organisms. There are 10 times more bacterial cells in you or on you than human cells.
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When I stood up to oppose an invasion of Iraq in 2002, it wasn't a popular thing to do.
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When I put out 'Toot It and Boot It,' did anything sound like that?
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I think there needs to be extremes in fashion, and Pucci offers another choice.
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No, God does not need us to love Him. But oh, how we need to love God! For what we love determines what we seek. What we seek determines what we think and do. What we think and do determines who we are - and who we will become.
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Regrets? None at all.
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When I was a young man, barely 18, I discovered Jesus Christ as my personal saviour, and for six months I told my mother she was damned to hell. That wasn't much fun. I abandoned it.
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For me, everything is about Jesus and Father and the Holy Spirit, and relationships, and life is an adventure of faith lived one day at a time. Any aspirations, visions and dreams died a long time ago and I have absolutely no interest in resurrecting them (they would stink by now anyway). I have finally figured out that I have nothing to lose by living a life of faith. I know more joy every minute of every day than seems appropriate, but I love the wastefulness of my Father's grace and presence. For me, everything in my life that matters, is perfect!
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The true measure of a man is how he behaves when death is close.
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They say every writer really just writes about one thing over and over. I guess my one thing is how the past impacts the present.
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Jesus called disciples so He could send them out as apostles. They were called together to learn so they could be sent out to teach and serve.
