Brian D. McLaren Quotes
If you don't want to worship a guy you can beat up, then I might humbly suggest you reconsider Caesar and the Greco-Roman narrative. It sounds like 'Christ and him crucified' is not for you. At least not yet.
Quotes to Explore
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I was inspired to spend an entire year - my 65th year - reading, researching, and meditating on Lao-tzu's messages, practicing them and ultimately writing down these insights as I felt Lao-tzu wanted us to know them.
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I'm very pro-American - my entire family escaped poverty in Italy because they rightly believed in the American dream.
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The white man's dollar is his god, and to stop this will be to stop outrages in many localities.
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Violence is interesting. This is a great obstacle to world peace and also to more thoughtful television programming.
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To be known by God is the highest goal of human existence.
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I had always sung in my dad's shop. I worked there after school, and I'd be singing along with the top-40 records of the day.
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Pray for divine guidance in your goal setting.
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An editor should tell the author his writing is better than it is. Not a lot better, a little better.
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Silence isn't golden and it surely doesn't mean consent, so start practicing the art of communication.
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Every adversity contains, at the same time, a seed of equivalent opportunity!
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When I take my kid to school, all the parents stop and stare.
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Summer skylarks Dart about the heavens Above the deep mountains.
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I eat lots of fruit for breakfast because it's cleansing and quickly digested by the body.
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The weakest kind of fruit drops earliest to the ground.
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I would always reserve a special place in my heart for Pittsburgh.
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Unfortunately, inner feelings and potential are often stunted by our parents, relatives or peers.
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So I've been pushed farther and farther out into the mountains, but at the same time realizing that that experience is really nice and I'm glad I'm getting pushed out there farther.
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God shows us in Christ what he would have to do if he were to punish us for our sins.
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Not simply the righteousness of our Saviour, not simply the beauty of His holiness or the graces of His character, are we to put on as a garment. The Lord Himself is our vesture. Every Christian is not only a Christ bearer, but a Christ wearer. We are so to enter into Him by communion, to be so endued with His presence, and imbued with His Spirit that men shall see Him when they behold us, as they see our garments when they look upon our bodies.
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Growth happens in community because the Bible places community as a critical step of obedience for the Christ follower. So the Christ follower outside of community is living in disobedience.
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You cannot take any people, of any color, and exempt them from the requirements of civilization - including work, behavioral standards, personal responsibility, and all the other basic things that the clever intelligentsia disdain - without ruinous consequences to them and to society at large.
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If you don't want to worship a guy you can beat up, then I might humbly suggest you reconsider Caesar and the Greco-Roman narrative. It sounds like 'Christ and him crucified' is not for you. At least not yet.
