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?
Quotes to Explore
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With a voice like Ella ringing out there's no way a band can lose.
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The computer revolution is a revolution in the way we think and in the way we express what we think.
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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.
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Deny the world, defy the devil, despise the flesh, and delight yourself only in the Lord.
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Let women figure out why they won't sleep with you. Don't do their work for them.
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Happy are they that hear their detractions, and can put them to mending.
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Mastery of language affords one remarkable opportunities.
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I left school at 17 and was a star by the time I was 18 - in certain parts of the world anyway.
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To see color as form means looking at the image in a new way, trying to free oneself from absorption in subject matter.
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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.
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Sometimes our body is willing, but our mind is weak. Sometimes our mind is willing, but our body is weak. Do not be afraid. Strive to extend your capacity but do not be disappointed with yourself. What does not challenge us, cannot change us.
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Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.
