Brian D. McLaren Quotes

As a committed Christian, I have always struggled with locked doors—doors by which we on the inside lock out "the others"—Jews, Muslims, Mormons, liberals, doubters, agnostics, gay folks, whomever. The more we insiders succeed in shutting others out, the more I tend to feel locked in, caged, trapped.

Brian D. McLaren

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• I suffer greatly from nerves. I have stage-fright badly, and it gets worse, but the stage is still my life.

  

  Barry Humphries
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Worse

• If I wasn't five-foot, I wouldn't be who I am! My size is a huge part of me.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Size

• What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Believe
  • Mind
  • Man

• We have established a new basis in our country in which economic liberalization would continue to flourish alongside democratic forces and deregulated power structure.

  

  Ibrahim Babangida
  • Country
  • Power
  • Economic

• I'd probably put myself in the top 1% in knowledge of blight in the city of Detroit.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • Knowledge
  • City
  • Myself

• I was named after Yul Brynner because my mother had an infatuation with him. Who the hell names a Cuban kid Yul? Talk about a torturous childhood.

  

  Yul Vazquez
  • Mother
  • Childhood
  • Hell

• I've had good times and bad times. That's me. That's how I am.

  

  Marat Safin
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Times

• Other people notice the same things but they don't think to put it to music.

  

  Ian Hunter
  • People
  • Music
  • Think

• I lived for a year in Scotland. British sign language is very different from American.

  

  I. King Jordan
  • Different
  • American
  • Language

• I've been writing a lot about my encounter with love. Which is the white stag as far as songwriting is concerned because love songs are so banal, and my experience with love is anything but that.

  

  J. Tillman
  • Experience
  • Songs
  • Concerned

• When I was 5 years old I would lie in bed, look at the radio, and I wanted to be on the radio. I don't know why.

  

  Larry King
  • Why
  • Know
  • Look

• Farrah Fawcett had courage, she had strength, and she had faith.

  

  Jaclyn Smith
  • She
  • Faith
  • Courage

• I desire not to keep my place in this government an hour longer than I may preserve England in its just rights, and may protect the people of God in such a just liberty of their consciences...

  

  Oliver Cromwell
  • People
  • God
  • May

• If you don't want to be killed by ISIS, don't go to Syria. If you don't want to be killed by a Mexican, there's nothing I can tell you.

  

  Ann Coulter
  • Mexican

• Granted, I'm more interested in technology than most people, and less interested in politics than most. But I don't like to think about categories. I really see myself as a general non-fiction writer.

  

  James Gleick
  • People
  • Technology

• America is best when we come together with clear leadership, expertise, and the political will to take on difficult challenges and get things done. No one should ever doubt the strength and resilience of our country and our democracy.

  

  Jamie Dimon
  • Country
  • Done
  • America

• It's all about how you use your social platform. Right now, I'm just using mine to empower people, get my entertainment and my news. Other people use their platform for different things.

  

  Karen Civil
  • People
  • Different

• Peterson was the most coachable athlete I have had in my life, and I coach many athletes.

  

  Ato Boldon
  • Life
  • Athlete

• That's the strategy that myself and my party have pursued and are pursuing.

  

  John Hume
  • Party

• I've only suffered writer's block badly once, and that was during the writing of Chamber of Secrets. I had my first burst of publicity about the first book and it paralysed me. I was scared the second book wouldn't measure up, but I got through it!

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Book

• The Christian Theology Reader brings the best primary sources to the theological inquirer.

  

  Gabriel Fackre
  • Christian

• As a committed Christian, I have always struggled with locked doors—doors by which we on the inside lock out "the others"—Jews, Muslims, Mormons, liberals, doubters, agnostics, gay folks, whomever. The more we insiders succeed in shutting others out, the more I tend to feel locked in, caged, trapped.

  

  Brian D. McLaren
  • Christian
  • Jews
  • Mormons