Brian D. McLaren Quotes
This is a book about getting naked—not physically, but spiritually. It’s about stripping away the symbols and status of public religion—the Sunday-dress version people often call “organized religion.” And it’s about attending to the well-being of the soul clothed only in naked human skin.
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Insight enables you make sure you don't allow negative beliefs to get permanently set in your thinking - just the same way you wouldn't want fractured bones to be permanently set into place.
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I got drunk when I was five. Everybody gets drunk before they're 21.
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May we be saved from evil thoughts and deed of enemies of world peace who find pleasure in creating havoc and perpetrating all forms of carnage.
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Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
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Is it not in the most absolute simplicity that real genius plies its pinions the most wonderfully?
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The pace of Swedish crime fiction is slower - Stieg Larsson's the exception. And I think we use the environment more.
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People I respect complimenting me on my work in fashion is more exciting to me than anything I ever achieved as a Spice Girl. I am now competing in an arena where I can hold my head high. I feel quite confident in what I'm doing now, much more than the singing. I was never going to give Mariah Carey any competition.
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For us Indians, I don't think English can ever exude that magic of emotions which our mother tongue can.
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If the U.N. didn't exist, we'd be inventing it right now.
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I have worked very hard to shed away my chocolate boy image in order to get a tough look for this action entertainer. I am confident of my success and would love to dedicate the same to Director Balachandar sir.
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I never had little brothers, so I was totally not used to hearing a lot of cussing at a young age! I learned what 'pull my finger' meant the hard way.
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The current prohibition laws are forcing drug disputes to be played out with guns in our streets. We need to put a stop to this criminal drug element in our country.
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I have a lightsaber at my front door for home protection. I have an 800-watt electric skateboard that I use to run errands in my neighborhood. It can go about six, seven miles, so depending on how much time I have, and how much I have to carry home, I'll take it really far. I love that thing.
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People assuming that because I'm a great athlete, I can dance. But no. My rhythm is off a little bit.
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Men's ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state.
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I grew up teaching parts to choirs, and I love a whole group of voices singing as one.
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Mostly I sat down and said, 'I'm not going to write a boring story.' And that actually, surprisingly, solves most of your problems.
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I've been drinking and using since I was 13.
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One of the most gracious dispensations of God concerning His saints is their lovely unawareness of sanctity. The nearer they move to Him, the more conscious are they of sin. If it were impossible at times not to note their own growth in grace, it were impossible also to forget that it was all by His power. If they could be persuaded to admit their progress and talk of it at all, the language of their heart would be this: 'If God could do this in me, He could do it in anyone
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If I were wrong, wouldn't one be enough?
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I've worked in so many areas -- I'm sort of a dilettante. Basically, I'm not interested in doing research and I never have been.
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I learned early on that 'Billy on the Street' is a great lesson in 'Don't judge a book by its cover.'
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All human things do require to have an ideal in them; to have some soul in them.
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This is a book about getting naked—not physically, but spiritually. It’s about stripping away the symbols and status of public religion—the Sunday-dress version people often call “organized religion.” And it’s about attending to the well-being of the soul clothed only in naked human skin.
