Brian D. McLaren Quotes

We must never underestimate our power to be wrong when talking about God, when thinking about God, when imagining God, whether in prose or in poetry. A generous orthodoxy, in contrast to the tense, narrow, or controlling orthodoxies of so much of Christian history, doesn't take itself too seriously. It is humble. It doesn't claim too much. It admits it walks with a limp.

Brian D. McLaren

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• Most of the most important experiences that truly educate cannot be arranged ahead of time with any precision.

  

  Harold Taylor
  • Time
  • Important
  • Ahead

• There is as much wisdom in listening as there is in speaking - and that goes for all relationships, not just romantic ones.

  

  Daniel Dae Kim
  • Wisdom
  • Listening
  • Romantic

• I would like to be a terrorist for music education - to make a complete reform, all over the world.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • World
  • Music
  • Education

• However, I think the major opposition to ecology has deeper roots than mere economics; ecology threatens widely held values so fundamental that they must be called religious.

  

  Garrett Hardin
  • Religious
  • Values
  • Roots

• I've had some threaten not to give Communion to me, even though they don't know my position, just because I'm a Democrat. I've had cardinals refuse to shake my hand because I'm a Democrat.

  

  Bart Stupak
  • Know
  • Me
  • Hand

• Like every Southern writer, I thought that I needed to write the next 'Gone With the Wind.'

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Thought
  • Wind
  • Writer

• I am smarter because I stayed in school, and I am a better football player.

  

  Dak Prescott
  • School
  • Football
  • Player

• I've been surprised at how much an unknown like myself can accomplish just by reaching out to people and pleading my case. Quotes for the book cover, reviews and interviews, readings and radio appearances - all this by simply moving ahead and making contact with folks I thought might enjoy the writing.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • People
  • Writing
  • Book

• The person who, let us say, expects generosity from a bank, efficient flexibility from a government agency, open-mindedness from a religious institution will be disappointed. In each purview the notions represent immorality. The poor fool might as quickly discover love among the mantises.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Religious
  • Fool
  • Generosity

• The creative act requires both will and intelligence. Breaking things is easy. You only need a hammer.

  

  Jack McDevitt

• The popular rallies at Rabaa al-Adawiya and other squares across Egypt will defeat despotism and terrorism in the long run. But in the meantime, any solution that fails to restore the public's confidence in the ballot box and falls short of alleviating the sense of victimhood in the Morsi camp will be doomed to failure.

  

  Tawakkol Karman
  • Long
  • Confidence
  • Failure

• For the sword outwears its sheath,And the soul wears out the breast,And the heart must pause to breathe,And love itself have rest.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Heart
  • Soul
  • Rest

• Ἢ οὐκ οἶσθ' ἀκριβῶς ὢν περισσόφρων ὅτιγλώσσῃ ματαίᾳ ζημία προστρίβεται.

  

  Aeschylus

• The most pressing question of our time is this: Is European society to be taken over by a radical invasion of Muslim immigrants?

  

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali
  • Time
  • Society
  • Question

• Ocean, n. A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.

  

  Ambrose Bierce
  • World
  • Water
  • Ocean

• Someone told me that having a baby is like having your heart walking around outside of your body, and I didn't understand it until I had a baby. Now, like, everything he does literally crushes my heart. In a great way. And then if he's in pain, it's like my whole endeavor is to make sure he's not in pain.

  

  Elizabeth Banks
  • Great
  • Heart
  • Pain

• I have my own marketing company, Always Civil, where I help artists create their online identity. I have worked with Lil Wayne, Young Jeezy, Mary J. Blige, Pusha T - the list goes on.

  

  Karen Civil
  • Help
  • Identity
  • Marketing

• With respect to potential computer intrusion by hostile actors, we did not find direct evidence that Secretary Clinton's personal e-mail domain, in its various configurations since 2009, was successfully hacked.

  

  James Comey
  • Respect

• Whether *****s's feel me or not regardless style heartless foul

  

  Donald Mason
  • Style
  • Heartless

• It is certainly not the least charm of a theory that it is refutable; it is precisely thereby that it attracts the more subtle minds. It seems that the hundred-times-refuted theory of the "free will" owes its persistence to this charm alone; some one is always appearing who feels himself strong enough to refute it.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Persistence
  • Charm
  • Attracts

• Even though I'm usually not conscious of it, I think drawing has always served a sort of therapeutic purpose in my life. There's something about the process of translating the messy chaos of real life into a clean, simple drawing that's always been comforting to me.

  

  Adrian Tomine
  • Life
  • Real
  • Simple

• Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.

  

  Miguel de Cervantes
  • Power
  • Earn
  • Begging

• We must never underestimate our power to be wrong when talking about God, when thinking about God, when imagining God, whether in prose or in poetry. A generous orthodoxy, in contrast to the tense, narrow, or controlling orthodoxies of so much of Christian history, doesn't take itself too seriously. It is humble. It doesn't claim too much. It admits it walks with a limp.

  

  Brian D. McLaren
  • God
  • Power
  • Poetry