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
-
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.
-
I'm very pro-American - my entire family escaped poverty in Italy because they rightly believed in the American dream.
-
The white man's dollar is his god, and to stop this will be to stop outrages in many localities.
-
Violence is interesting. This is a great obstacle to world peace and also to more thoughtful television programming.
-
To be known by God is the highest goal of human existence.
-
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.
-
Pray for divine guidance in your goal setting.
-
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.
-
An editor should tell the author his writing is better than it is. Not a lot better, a little better.
-
Silence isn't golden and it surely doesn't mean consent, so start practicing the art of communication.
-
Every adversity contains, at the same time, a seed of equivalent opportunity!
-
When I take my kid to school, all the parents stop and stare.
-
Summer skylarks Dart about the heavens Above the deep mountains.
-
I eat lots of fruit for breakfast because it's cleansing and quickly digested by the body.
-
Wine, it's in my veins and I can't get it out.
-
The weakest kind of fruit drops earliest to the ground.
-
Normally I wouldn't spoil anything because I love surprises - I don't even shake my presents at Christmas.
-
It wasn't even a matter of what I was photographing, as what had happened to me in the process. When I discovered that I could look at the horror of Belsen - 4000 dead and starving lying around - and think only of a nice photographic composition, I knew something had happened to me and I had to stop. I felt I was like the people running the camp - Nit didn't mean a thing.
-
It would not be easy even for an unbeliever, to find a better translation of the rule of virtue from the abstract into the concrete, than to endeavor so to live that Christ would approve our life.
-
We know that advanced economies with stable governments that borrow in their own currency are capable of running up very high levels of debt without crisis.
-
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.
