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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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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No language is as depending on arbitrary use and custom can ever be permanently the same, but will always be in a mutable and fluctuating state; and what is deem'd polite and elegant in one age, may be accounted uncouth and barbarous in another.
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He was a man, take him for all in all, I shall not look upon his like again.
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You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth of falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you. It is easy to say you believe a rope to be strong and sound as long as you are merely using it to cord a box. But suppose you had to hang by that rope over a precipice. Wouldn't you then first discover how much you really trusted it?
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There's always that sense of because we're so racially defined, if you're trying to cross the boundaries you don't fit into any particular space.
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I can't feel my face. I mean I can touch it. But I can't feel it inside.
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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?
