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
Quotes to Explore
-
With a voice like Ella ringing out there's no way a band can lose.
Stevie Wonder -
The computer revolution is a revolution in the way we think and in the way we express what we think.
Hal Abelson -
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 -
Deny the world, defy the devil, despise the flesh, and delight yourself only in the Lord.
Lady Jane Grey -
Let women figure out why they won't sleep with you. Don't do their work for them.
William Shatner -
Happy are they that hear their detractions, and can put them to mending.
William Shakespeare
-
Mastery of language affords one remarkable opportunities.
Alexandre Dumas -
I left school at 17 and was a star by the time I was 18 - in certain parts of the world anyway.
George Michael -
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 -
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 -
Marijuana is a very dangerous drug. Some people smoke it just once and go directly into politics.
Barry Crimmins -
In vain do we seek to awaken our churches to zeal in evangelism as a separate thing. To be genuine it must flow from love to Christ. It is when a sense of personal communion with the Son of God is highest that we shall be most fit for missionary work, either ourselves or to stir up others.
Archibald Alexander
-
Ordinary people - churches, too - have a role to force politicians to respond. Governments are not impressed with theories, but governments are impressed with people who change their minds about things.
Allan Boesak -
Two thousand years ago, God started a revolt against the religion He started. So don't ever put it past God to cause a groundswell movement against churches and Christian institutions that bear His name.
Erwin McManus -
I'm buying records a lot, like, every week I'm just buying old reissues or old originals or new records that I have heard about.
Tim Gane -
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