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.

Brian D. McLaren

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• Schoolchildren
• Hispaniola
• Columbus’s

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• I feel like the phone was in my way. So I got rid of the phone to focus.

  

  Young Thug
  • Focus
  • Feel
  • Phone

• Nobody has to tell nobody nothing,” I say, taking another step forward. “You never were a poet, were you, Todd?” he says.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Poet
  • Tell
  • Nobody

• For God loves saving, not condemning, and therefore He is patient with bad people, in order to make good people out of bad people.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • People
  • Good
  • God

• 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.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Men
  • Black
  • Religious

• 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.

  

  Ian Bryce
  • Kids

• The science [of global warming] is beyond dispute... Delay is no longer an option. Denial is no longer an acceptable response

  

  Barack Obama
  • Science
  • Option

• I have trouble describing characters because there is just too much going on in human beings.

  

  Lisa Kudrow
  • Human
  • Trouble
  • Characters

• 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.

  

  Summer Sanders
  • Work
  • Long
  • Kids

• I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Way
  • Right
  • Hell

• Someone like myself, who claimed to be a real madman, living and organized with a Pythagorean precision.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Madman
  • Claimed
  • Pythgorean Precision

• 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

  

  Tom Petty Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
  • Road
  • Sun
  • Went down

• God has no need for our worship. It is we who need to show our gratitude for what we have received.

  

  Thomas Aquinas
  • God
  • Gratitude
  • Worship

• People who do crazy things are not necessarily crazy.

  

  Elliot Aronson
  • Crazy
  • To Do
  • Necessarily

• No man can be a failure if he thinks he's a success; If he thinks he is a winner, then he is.

  

  Robert W. Service
  • Men
  • Thinking
  • Winning

• Each moment is perfect and heaven-sent, in that each moment holds the seeds for growth.

  

  Suzan-Lori Parks
  • Growth
  • Moment
  • Seeds

• I don't consciously start writing a play that involves issues. After it's done, I sit back like everyone else and think about what it means.

  

  Suzan-Lori Parks
  • Play
  • Issues
  • Means

• An unromantic poem I mean to make, of one who only lives for duty's sake.

  

  Henrik Ibsen
  • Make
  • Duty
  • Poem

• The people of Hispaniola had their lives unjustly and savagely taken by professed Jesus followers, and they were not, as we all know, the only ones to meet such a fate. Millions of their Indigenous sisters and brothers on Turtle Island were killed at the hands of other Europeans, as nation after imperial nation, bearing Christ on their lips and crosses on their military standards, followed suit.

  

  Brian D. McLaren
  • People
  • Hispaniola
  • Jesus followers

• 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.

  

  Brian D. McLaren
  • Poem
  • Schoolchildren
  • Hispaniola