Brian D. McLaren Quotes
We’re seeking — imperfectly at every turn, no doubt — an incarnational theology, a theology that brings radical good news of great joy for all the people, good news that God loves the world and didn’t send Jesus to condemn it but to save it, good news that God’s wrath is not merely punitive but restorative, good news that the fire of God’s holiness is not bent on eternal torment but always works to purify and refine, good news that where sin abounds, grace abounds all the more.
Quotes to Explore
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A teacher should have a creative mind.
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I had one girl tell me last night that I'm the greatest thing ever, that she wants to aspire to be me. Just stuff like, 'You're my idol. I love you.' It's awesome. It's what it's all about.
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Questions that require answers are what keep readers going - and the place to start raising those questions is with your very first sentence.
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I've always been DJing; it's just I'm making more of a push for it, making it more public.
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When people get things for free, they tend to not take them as seriously.
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The cost of living is going up and the chance of living is going down.
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Ballot formats should be standardized nationally rather than left to the often bad judgment of local officials.
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I'm surprised as anyone about where I've ended up. Maybe it's because I say yes to things.
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He that is rich is wise.
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I'm an actress and mom, and I probably don't have enough of an active spiritual life. And I don't know why people run around calling themselves by the names of religions when they don't actually practise them.
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I know the dangers and the seductions of the Middle East. It is part of my identity. I grew up among a people who routinely referred to the creation of the State of Israel as the Nakba - the catastrophe. And yet I fell in love with and married a Jewish American woman, the only daughter of two Holocaust survivors, both Jewish Austrians.
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Three years ago the Government announced the creation of Reconciliation Place, and said that it would include a memorial to those removed from their families. However, they refused to include any of those who were removed in the design of their own memorial.
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Let's make Donald Trump explain his hair.
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Metaphysical fallacies contain the only clues we have to what thinking means to those who engage in it.
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The Owl and the Pussy-cat went to seaIn a beautiful pea green boat,They took some honey, and plenty of money,Wrapped up in a five pound note.The Owl looked up to the stars above,And sang to a small guitar,'O lovely Pussy! O Pussy my love,What a beautiful Pussy you are,You are,You are!What a beautiful Pussy you are!'
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If I had foreseen Hiroshima and Nagasaki, I would have torn up my formula in 1905.
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I think an important quality that I have is that if you turn on the radio and hear somebody sing, you know it's me. You don't confuse my voice with another voice.
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I have learned that while your putting your record together you can get so caught up in making what you want that you forget what you wanted in the first place.
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I've got to really try and manage my patience out there.
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By the winter of 1945-1946, the Russian peoples were being warned of the dangers from the West
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A filmmaker can never be distant from his roots.
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Writing a graphic novel is hard. It feels closer to a screen play than to a novel.
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We have all kinds of limitations as human beings. I mean we can't see the whole electromagnetic spectrum; we can't see the very small; we can't see the very far. So we compensate for these short comings with technological scaffoldings. The microscope allows us to extend our vision into the micro-sphere.
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We’re seeking — imperfectly at every turn, no doubt — an incarnational theology, a theology that brings radical good news of great joy for all the people, good news that God loves the world and didn’t send Jesus to condemn it but to save it, good news that God’s wrath is not merely punitive but restorative, good news that the fire of God’s holiness is not bent on eternal torment but always works to purify and refine, good news that where sin abounds, grace abounds all the more.
