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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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You can publish a poem you think is a very important poem, and you don't hear a word from anyone. You can publish a book of poetry by dropping it off a cliff and waiting to hear an echo. Quite often, you'll never hear a thing. So doing that, using older work, puts it in a context, and that sort of forces the reader to realize what its importance is-if it has any. Everything needs a context. You're not going to recognize a poet unless you have a context.
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May God preserve you and watch over you.
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I ask but one thing of you, only one, That always you will be my dream of you; That never shall I wake to find untrue All this I have believed and rested on, Forever vanished, like a vision gone Out into the night. Alas, how few There are who strike in us a chord we knew Existed, but so seldom heard its tone We tremble at the half-forgotten sound. The world is full of rude awakenings And heaven-born castles shattered to the ground, Yet still our human longing vainly clings To a belief in beauty through all wrongs. O stay your hand, and leave my heart its songs!
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I love working with actors. That's what the set really is, for me. It's my time with the actors.
