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.

Brian D. McLaren

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• I think socializing on the Internet is to socializing what reality TV is to reality.

  

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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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• 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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• For this equilibrium now in sight, let us trust that mankind, as it has occurred in the greatest periods of its past, will find for itself a new code of ethics, common to all, made of tolerance, of courage, and of faith in the Spirit of men.

  

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• How pleasant it is to respect people! When I see books, I am not concerned with how the authors loved or played cards; I see only their marvelous works.

  

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• Our engineering departments build freeways which destroy a city or a landscape, in the process.

  

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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.

  

  Brian D. McLaren
  • Faith
  • Opinion
  • Essence