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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When I was 8, I got a little toy propeller plane: You could turn it on and the people disappeared from the little windows and stewardesses appeared, and it ran along the ground.
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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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Wine, it's in my veins and I can't get it out.
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Peace of mind comes when your life is in harmony with true principles and values and in no other way.
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The difference between an admirer and a follower still remains, no matter where you are. The admirer never makes any true sacrifices. He always plays it safe. Though in words, phrases, songs, he is inexhaustible about how highly he prizes Christ, he renounces nothing, gives up nothing, will not reconstruct his life, will not be what he admires, and will not let his life express what it is he supposedly admires.
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My season is when I get paid. I'm not sacrificing my body or taking a chance on injury for something that is made up. A lot of guys feel that way. They won't say it, but I will.
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I can have a whole year off. I'm really lucky because I'm my own boss, so I make the rules and get to choose when I take time off.
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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.
