Brian D. McLaren Quotes

The life-and-death question for each of our churches and denominations may boil down to this: are we a club for the elite who pretend to have arrived or a school for disciples who are still on the way?

Brian D. McLaren

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• With a voice like Ella ringing out there's no way a band can lose.

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • Way
  • Band
  • Voice

• The computer revolution is a revolution in the way we think and in the way we express what we think.

  

  Hal Abelson
  • Revolution

• Yoga is possible for anybody who really wants it. Yoga is universal.... But don't approach yoga with a business mind looking for worldly gain.

  

  K. Pattabhi Jois
  • Mind
  • Business
  • Success

• Deny the world, defy the devil, despise the flesh, and delight yourself only in the Lord.

  

  Lady Jane Grey
  • World
  • Devil

• Let women figure out why they won't sleep with you. Don't do their work for them.

  

  William Shatner
  • Sleep
  • Figures
  • Sexuality

• Happy are they that hear their detractions, and can put them to mending.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Mending

• Mastery of language affords one remarkable opportunities.

  

  Alexandre Dumas
  • Language
  • Opportunities
  • Mastery

• I left school at 17 and was a star by the time I was 18 - in certain parts of the world anyway.

  

  George Michael
  • World
  • School
  • Star

• To see color as form means looking at the image in a new way, trying to free oneself from absorption in subject matter.

  

  Cole Weston
  • Color
  • Matter
  • Form

• It is a peculiarity of knitters that they chronically underestimate the amount of time it takes to knit something. Birthday on Saturday? No problem. Socks are small. Never mind that the average sock knit out of sock-weight yarn contains about 17,000 stitches. Never mind that you need two of them. (That's 34,000 stitches, for anybody keeping track.) Socks are only physically small. By stitch count, they are immense.

  

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
  • Mind
  • Problem
  • Track

• That is very fine; but it is impossible to make the men perfect; the men will always remain the same as they are now; and no legislation will make a man have more presence of mind, or, I believe, make him more cautious; and besides that, the next time such an accident occurs, the circumstances will be so different, that the instructions given to the men, in consequence of the former accident, will not apply.

  

  Isambard K. Brunel
  • Men
  • Accident
  • Instructions

• We have to assess: Are we making disciples along the way as we draw people to our churches?

  

  Ed Stetzer
  • Churches
  • Disciples
  • Assess

• If we knew how much God loved us and was for us, we’d talk to Him all day long.

  

  Donald Miller
  • God
  • Long
  • Love

• Because we love something else more than this world, we love even this world more than those who know no other.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • World
  • Knows
  • This World

• When a child knows there's a secret, they don't know what it is, but they know it's there, and they know they're being lied to.

  

  Julia Garner
  • Child
  • Secret
  • Lied

• The life-and-death question for each of our churches and denominations may boil down to this: are we a club for the elite who pretend to have arrived or a school for disciples who are still on the way?

  

  Brian D. McLaren
  • Churches
  • Life-and-death
  • Denominations