Brian D. McLaren Quotes
Schoolchildren don’t normally learn this poem about Columbus’s second voyage to Hispaniola Haiti and the Dominican Republic today: “In fourteen hundred and ninety-five, sixteen hundred people he kidnapped alive.
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I feel like the phone was in my way. So I got rid of the phone to focus.
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Nobody has to tell nobody nothing,” I say, taking another step forward. “You never were a poet, were you, Todd?” he says.
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For God loves saving, not condemning, and therefore He is patient with bad people, in order to make good people out of bad people.
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A young man had become possessed by a devil. The thing within him burst into loud lamentation and departed from the man. At once the youth's eye fell out on his cheek, and the whole of the pupil which had been black became white.
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I think you always have to try to expand the content to make it exciting for the audience and the kids out there with the cars and the robots.
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The science [of global warming] is beyond dispute... Delay is no longer an option. Denial is no longer an acceptable response
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I have trouble describing characters because there is just too much going on in human beings.
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When I was training for the Chicago Marathon, I would eat a cup of cereal after an 18-mile long run, and then I'd have to get out the door with nothing but a granola bar in my hand. I can't change my busy schedule with my kids, but I can work harder to improve in this area. I think it's a part of training that most of us find difficult.
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I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way.
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Well, I started out down a dirty road Started out all alone And the sun went down as I crossed the hill And the town lit up, the world got still I'm learning to fly but I ain't got wings Coming down is the hardest thing Well, the good ol' days may not return And the rocks might melt and the sea may burn I'm learning to fly but I ain't got wings Coming down is the hardest thing Well, some say life will beat you down Break your heart, steal your crown So I've started out for God knows where I guess I'll know when I get there I'm learning to fly around the clouds But what goes up must come down
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God has no need for our worship. It is we who need to show our gratitude for what we have received.
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People who do crazy things are not necessarily crazy.
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No man can be a failure if he thinks he's a success; If he thinks he is a winner, then he is.
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I think once you sort of cross over and you realize what books can be - and if they mean something to you - there's just no stopping you.
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Sin is its own punishment, devouring you from the inside.
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This estranged me. And I was still more estranged by what he said next; for, having inquired what the story I was then writing was about, and I having answered—reluctantly and apologetically, because down on the flat he had seemed so strictly principled,—that I was very sorry but I was afraid it was about adultery, he called out, with horrifying heartiness, “The finest sport in the world!” What sort of a guest, I asked myself, shocked, was this for a widow, the sole protector of a set of orphans, to have got herself involved in? But there was worse to come; for quite soon, instead of helping me with the uproarious children, he left off even pretending to be interested in them, and began, to my concern, to concentrate on me. In other words, he left off being just a guest, and turned into a suitor.
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Generally, speed skaters don't run that much. I'm a little bit of an exception in that I run a lot.
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I don't want to jump through hoops for people.
