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.

Brian D. McLaren

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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.

  

  E. L. Konigsburg
  • Family
  • School
  • High

• I love the outdoors. I love climbing mountains.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Mountains
  • Climbing
  • Outdoors

• A key reason that elections are run so badly is that in most states, political partisans are in charge.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Political
  • Run
  • Key

• 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.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • Age
  • Career
  • Science

• 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.

  

  Raekwon
  • Music
  • Me
  • Project

• I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Always
  • More
  • Accomplishment

• 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.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • People
  • May
  • Book

• If that was on my road the council would be like 'Get that down, its a deathtrap!'

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Road

• 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.

  

  Tawakkol Karman
  • People
  • Support
  • Revolution

• The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Power
  • Catastrophe
  • Atom

• I'm a hard worker. I'm a people person.

  

  Bobby Schilling
  • People

• The problem with experiments has always been that human beings make the decisions on whether or not the animals have benefitted from the treatment.

  

  James Randi

• 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.

  

  Bonnie Bassler
  • Single
  • Model

• When I stood up to oppose an invasion of Iraq in 2002, it wasn't a popular thing to do.

  

  Chellie Pingree
  • Up
  • Popular

• When I put out 'Toot It and Boot It,' did anything sound like that?

  

  Ty Dolla Sign

• I think there needs to be extremes in fashion, and Pucci offers another choice.

  

  Matthew Williamson
  • Fashion

• Regrets? None at all.

  

  Alan Shearer

• No matter what you experience in life, it incorporates political tendencies, and in so many ways.

  

  John Joseph Lydon
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Political

• You thought the stage, you thought Broadway: that was the pot at the end of the rainbow. The idea of being in Hollywood was like going to the Moon or Mars.

  

  Peter Falk
  • Moon
  • Rainbow

• You make mistakes. Mistakes don't make you.

  

  Maxwell Maltz

• The humility of Jesus can be seen in the crib, in the exile to Egypt, in the hidden life, in the inability to make people understand Him, in the desertion of His apostles, in the hatred of His persecutors, in all the terrible suffering and death of His Passion, and now in His permanent state of humility in the tabernacle, where He has reduced Himself to such a small particle of bread that the priest can hold Him with two fingers. The more we empty ourselves, the more room we give God to fill us.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • People
  • Giving
  • Passion

• When I was a kid going into the movies, you weren't force-fed information everywhere you looked about what the movie was going to be.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Movie
  • You
  • Movies

• I wish airplanes were more like elementary school with someone up front telling everyone to sit down and shut up.

  

  Alonzo Bodden
  • Shut Up
  • Airplanes
  • Sit Down

• 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.

  

  Brian D. McLaren
  • Jesus
  • Apostles