Brian D. McLaren Quotes

When any sector of the church stops learning, God simply overflows the structures that are in the way and works outside them with those willing to learn.

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• Botox not only helps with wrinkles, it actually makes you feel more relaxed as frowning causes tension.

  

  Patricia Cornwell
  • You
  • Feel
  • Wrinkles

• When I'm singing, I connect the dots with notes.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Singing
  • Notes
  • Dots

• Bad humor is an evasion of reality; good humor is an acceptance of it.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Reality

• 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

• We asked Jane Fonda if she would like to meet American pilots in Hanoi, but she refused, she didn't want to.

  

  Hanoi Hannah
  • American
  • Pilots

• I think the 19th century is an extraordinary period with a welling up of creativity and all kinds of experimentation and exploration going on at least until 1940.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Up
  • Period
  • Creativity

• Let's use the opportunities before us to stand for Christ. If we will do, God himself will honor our efforts and America can be restored.

  

  Randall Terry
  • God
  • America
  • Honor

• There's such a stereotype about men and women. Obviously, people think men are faster and stronger and all these other things, and I don't want people to get sucked into that anymore. I want them to realize that the women are out here and doing just as awesome things. They can be just as great, too.

  

  Kacy Catanzaro
  • People
  • Great
  • Men

• If we're going to reach a broader audience, we have to stop thinking about that audience strictly in terms of teenage boys or even teenage girls. We need to think about things that are relevant to normal humans and not just the geeks we used to be.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Thinking
  • Think
  • Stop

• There's no other art form in the world that affects me more.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • World
  • Art

• A man's own dinner is to himself so important that he cannot bring himself to believe that it is a matter utterly indifferent to every one else.

  

  Anthony Trollope
  • Believe
  • Important

• No art is superior to another one, but every art looks for expertise and perfection. This is life, which continues; this is why there is no death. There is continuation. There is no silence. There is a continuation of thought.

  

  Marcel Marceau
  • Life
  • Art
  • Why

• I just don't see myself as retiring. As long as I'm healthy and can play the drums, that's what I'm going to do because that's the most fun thing that I know how to do.

  

  Bill Kreutzmann Grateful Dead
  • Long
  • Fun

• Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.

  

  Marquis de Sade
  • Nature
  • Church

• In effect, there has been a significant shortfall in the overall amount of monetary policy stimulus since early 2009.

  

  Janet Yellen

• I'm a girl that loves to go to amusement park.

  

  Katy Mixon
  • Girl

• What is hard to remember when you're in the middle of it is that when you get through to the other side, you always walk away with a gift. If you can stand in there and not walk away from it, you get transformed by it.

  

  Kathy Mattea
  • Remember

• A lost election can have the jolt of a drop through the gallows door, leading to a dark night of the soul in which the future presses down like a cloud that will never lift.

  

  James Wolcott
  • Soul
  • Future
  • Night

• The only thing that bothers me is that the girls come up to me and say, "I'm dating your ex-husband." I'm happy that he's dating girls and getting out.

  

  Janet Jackson
  • Up
  • Happy
  • Girl

• I am an idealist. I don't know where I'm going but I'm on my way.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Way
  • Idealist

• There is a painful joke that Europeans often tell of their Gallic neighbors: God created France, the most beautiful country in the world with so much good in it, and ended up feeling guilty about it. He had to do something to make it fair. And so, he created the French people.

  

  Janine di Giovanni
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• There have been prophets and students who handle the Bible like a child's box of bricks; they explain to us the design and structure and purpose; but as time goes on things do not work out in their way at all. They have mistaken the scaffolding for the structure, while all the time God is working out His purpose with a great and undeterred patience.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Time
  • Work
  • Great

• You know, women are acting the way they want to act now. Years ago they would hide it in the way they dressed, the way they speak, even the way they act in bed. Today, they're doing the same thing, but they're dressing the way they want to be treated and, when you're with them, acting the way they want to act. And you know, honesty is the best policy. I love that.

  

  Andrew Dice Clay
  • Women
  • Way
  • Hide

• When any sector of the church stops learning, God simply overflows the structures that are in the way and works outside them with those willing to learn.

  

  Brian D. McLaren
  • God
  • Way
  • Church