Brian D. McLaren Quotes

It turns out that the famous dictum, associated with Dostoevsky's Ivan Karamazov, can run both ways: yes, without God everything is theoretically permissible... but believers can find ways to use God to justify just about anything as well.

Brian D. McLaren

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• For me, the lean times were a wonderful, beautiful time of my life, struggling for many years in regional theater all over the country for not much money.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Life
  • Time
  • Country

• Spare no expense to save money on this one.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Money
  • Save
  • Expense

• Sometimes in someone's gestures you can notice how a parent is somehow inhabiting that person without there being any awareness of that. Sometimes you can look at your hand and see your father.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Father
  • Hand
  • Sometimes

• Anybody I'm dating, I don't want them to talk about my music. I don't talk about my music to them.

  

  Nas
  • Music
  • Want
  • Dating

• 'Power' is a very special film for me and is one of the finest films of my career. I have played a character that I have never done before. My role has a lot of comedy.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Character
  • Power
  • Career

• The chemistry that you get from living with your band and creating music and recording with your band translates to the stage.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Music
  • You
  • Band

• Boxing traditionally was received very well and accepted on both sides.

  

  Barry McGuigan
  • Boxing
  • Very
  • Both Sides

• Growing up, in my under-15 days I used to be a wicketkeeper, and that carried on till I was 17. Then I started focusing on my batting and moved on. I got into the Ranji team quite early, and generally, as a youngster, the first place you are put in is at bat-pad and short leg, so you had to work on your close-in fielding straightaway.

  

  Rahul Dravid
  • Up
  • Work
  • Growing

• The American dream is more about opportunity than anything else.

  

  Nate Parker
  • American
  • Dream
  • Opportunity

• I don't think you'll ever get enough picking.

  

  Earl Scruggs
  • Think
  • You
  • Enough

• Find joy and solace in the simple, and cultivate your utopia by feeling the Tao in every cubic inch of space.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Feeling
  • Space
  • Simple

• I was the kid at six who was like, 'I want to be in a jazz club.' I was never the pop kid, ever. I mean that's not true, I had a couple years where I wanted to be Tiffany and Debbie Gibson, but aside from that, no.

  

  Rachael MacFarlane
  • True
  • Want
  • Couple

• Et sane arduum debet esse, quod adeo raro reperitur. Qui enim posset fieri, si salus in promptu esset et sine magno labore reperiri posset, ut ab omnibus fere negligeretur? Sed omnia praeclara tam difficilia, quam rara sunt.

  

  Baruch Spinoza

• Through Plato, Aristotle came to believe in God; but Plato never attempted to prove His reality. Aristotle had to do so. Plato contemplated Him; Aristotle produced arguments to demonstrate Him. Plato never defined Him; but Aristotle thought God through logically, and concluded with entire satisfaction to himself that He was the Unmoved Mover.

  

  Edith Hamilton
  • God
  • Believe
  • Reality

• Each must the other take as sign, short sign To stop the whirlwind, balk the elements.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Stop

• Remember though thatTHERE IS NO GENERAL RULE FOR CONVERTING A LIST INTO A SCALAR.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Remember

• Mont Blanc is the Monarch of mountains;They crowned him long ago,On a throne of rocks - in a robe of clouds –With a Diadem of Snow.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Long
  • Snow
  • Clouds

• Blondes make the best victims. They're like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.

  

  Alfred Hitchcock
  • Up
  • Snow

• I think that when you make a record, an album, it has to be a discovery for the person listening to it, so you don't want to pat everything out and say 'this was that, this is definite, that's how it happened and that's what you should feel and that's what you should like or dislike'. It's personal discovery.'

  

  Morrissey The Smiths
  • Listening

• I'm a filmmaker who decided to go to culinary school. All I picked up was the fact if I didn't understand what was going on with every single ingredient, I could be qualifying for, like, the lunch food job at my daughter's school.

  

  Alton Brown
  • Up
  • School
  • Job

• Whether we are able to be a complete success or failure is in such critical balance that every smallest human test of integrity every smallest moment-to-moment decision tips the scales affirmatively or negatively.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Success
  • Decision
  • Failure

• The more I learn and read about the 10th Muse i realize what a great fan base and cult following she has. I'm going to try to live up to the fantastic image of the 10th Muse!

  

  Cindy Margolis
  • Great
  • Live
  • Muse

• I remember when I first met Jason Reitman with the 'Whiplash' script; he quickly became a mentor figure who guided me through the process and also protected me and made sure that when it came time to actually make 'Whiplash,' I was able to make exactly the movie I wanted to make.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Movie

• It turns out that the famous dictum, associated with Dostoevsky's Ivan Karamazov, can run both ways: yes, without God everything is theoretically permissible... but believers can find ways to use God to justify just about anything as well.

  

  Brian D. McLaren
  • God
  • Ways
  • Dictum