Brian D. McLaren Quotes
We must understand the essence of our faith to be something other than a list of opinions, propositions, or statements that our group holds but cannot prove.
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We are so Post-Modern that we don't realize how Post-Modern we are anymore.
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Katie Holmes is really amazing.
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If the only thing you knew about Oman was its location, you might never go at all.
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American power worldwide is at its historic zenith.
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I have never seen a bad television program, because I refuse to. God gave me a mind, and a wrist that turns things off.
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I exercise about 40 minutes a day, and I'll run one day and do circuit training the next day. I live in an area where there are brilliant hills and mountains, so I get a good hill run with my dog. At home, I'll do the circuit training with old weights, along with pull-ups in the trees and that sort of stuff.
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The police officers, so far as discipline, organization, pay, and orders were concerned, came exclusively under the German Reich police system and were in no way connected with the administration of the Government General.
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You don't want R&B singers to get into beef. Leave that to the rappers, let them do that - R&B, be classy.
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No one is immune from addiction; it afflicts people of all ages, races, classes, and professions.
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You do not win by struggling to the top of a caste system, you win by refusing to be trapped within one at all.
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Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment; only there does its satisfaction lie.
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I'm all for putting money back into the black community, who white people have been stealing from for years.
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I always felt if something bad happens, it can be your best opportunity. The times I was most depressed turned out to be the best things.
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To play someone I loved in my favourite fairytale as a kid is a total honour.
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From here, it becomes an engineering problem; the engineer considers the ground motion that will occur and evaluates the requirements of the proposed structure in the light of the local foundation conditions.
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The physical part was one thing. Whatever - I broke my face; that'll heal. The mental aspect was the biggest shock to the system. You just don't know how to experience stuff like that. You don't have any control over it, either. It's just how your body and brain reacts to something like that happening.
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I don't want my daughters to grow up the way that I grew up. I want them to actually see Mommy in a fulfilled relationship that's amazing for her.
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When you hear someone say something homophobic, it really ages them. It sounds old-fashioned.
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So many people are busy working now, but we need to go back to the old days when grandma and the neighbors helped raise the children, and we were all the better for it.
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Do not imagine that what we have said of the insufficiency of our understanding and of its limited extent is an assertion founded only on the Bible: for philosophers likewise assert the same, and perfectly understand it,- without having regard to any religion or opinion.
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In a mood of faith and hope my work goes on. A ream of fresh paper lies on my desk waiting for the next book. I am a writer and I take up my pen to write.
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The people who are doing really well and who are getting stopped in airports are the people who are going to say the more outrageous things and get on TV and state their opinion on a regular basis.
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I think I look pretty decent in a tux.
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We must understand the essence of our faith to be something other than a list of opinions, propositions, or statements that our group holds but cannot prove.
