Brian D. McLaren Quotes
As I said before, evolution doesn’t bother me. If you tell me that God created the earth “by hand” in six days some thousands of years ago, I am impressed. If you tell me instead that God set a whole cosmos in motion some billions of years ago, a cosmos perfectly calibrated within the narrowest of margins to produce at least one planet where life would be developed through cause-effect chains that were designed into it by a purposeful Designer… I am no less impressed; in fact, I may be even more impressed. The “how” and “when” of it all seem almost inconsequential to me compared to the “what” and “why” which lie beyond cause and effect.
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The 'Agent X' set was never boring. During the first few days, I had to adjust to the loud noise on set, which included gun shots and explosions. After we finished filming the season, I realized I missed hearing all the noise and driving on empty freeways.
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Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
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Law school and summer camp are the two experiences that inform pretty much all I do.
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Vegetarians in general don't like me.
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If you want to be happy, make others happy!
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David Lee Roth had the idea that if you covered a successful song, you were half way home. C'mon - Van Halen doing 'Dancing in the Streets'? It was stupid. I started feeling like I would rather bomb playing my own songs than be successful playing someone else's music.
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We were fortunate to have the Russians as our childhood enemies. We practiced hiding under our desks in case they had the temerity to drop a nuclear weapon.
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I used to get up at five in the morning and play cricket.
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I came up in a family oriented towards the sick, so I always felt an obligation for doing something.
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I'm obsessed with making lists.
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Here's to the next insurrection of the negroes in the West Indies.
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Mama was a looker,Lord, how she shined.Papa was a good'n,But the jealous kind.Papa loved Mama;Mama loved men.Mama's in the graveyard;Papa's in the pen.
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When we add the devaluation of male values to the demonizing of male sexuality, many boys feel like a pervert before they know who they are.
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The Bible … does not contain a single sentence that could not have been written by a man or woman living in the first century.
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The impulse patterns which carried creatures star to star were almost instantaneous, no matter what the distance.He stood and thought about it and it still was hard, he admitted to himself, for a person to believe.
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Even when you're being safe, eight hours of choreography makes you look like you've been through a war. It's hard. It's like playing hockey for eight hours.
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I play a lot of video games, and I go to the gym.
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Basically, I want to make all of humanity more efficient by exploiting the human cycles that get wasted.
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When that man wants something, he'll stop at nothing to get it. And I also believed in the good of him.
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The plan of spiritual evolution is marked not only by God's will that we move ever in the direction of love, nut also by another of God's creative principles: that humanity has free will. What that means is that in any given moment, it is our choice whether we move toward love or retreat from it. What is not love is fear. But in the larger scheme of things, there is a limit past which lovelessness cannot remain. Fear is not life-giving enough to sustain itself. We can move in the direction of fear only so long before it brings us to our knees, or to our end....
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Listen to great storytellers; slowly, you will learn about voice, timing, tension, structure, climax - all the things you need to tell stories that will capture the imagination of your audience.
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It has been observed that the height of a man from the crown of the head to the sole of the foot is equal to the distance between the tips of the middle fingers of the two hands when extended in a straight line.
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As I said before, evolution doesn’t bother me. If you tell me that God created the earth “by hand” in six days some thousands of years ago, I am impressed. If you tell me instead that God set a whole cosmos in motion some billions of years ago, a cosmos perfectly calibrated within the narrowest of margins to produce at least one planet where life would be developed through cause-effect chains that were designed into it by a purposeful Designer… I am no less impressed; in fact, I may be even more impressed. The “how” and “when” of it all seem almost inconsequential to me compared to the “what” and “why” which lie beyond cause and effect.
