Top 32 Best Brian Mclaren Quotes
#1. I love writers who are insightful enough to be cynical but choose not to be.
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#2. Trying to stop people from learning, sharing, and loving is a losing game because it means working against God and the plotline of God's universe.
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#3. If your goal is to produce firefighters and rescue workers, you have to produce people willing to enter burning buildings.
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#4. Christian faith for me is no longer a static location but a great spiritual journey. And that changes everything.
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#5. Some people
and I pray I will be one of them
never forget what it was like, which enables them to mentor people of any age.
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#6. People have no idea how strong a pull sex, money, and power have on them until they try to resist their pull.
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#7. That is what mature faith requires - not pride over how much one sees and understands, but humility, the feeling that one is still a child, certain of so little, still so dependent on God and others, with so much still to learn - including so much more to learn about humility.
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#8. In case after case in the past, there is a kind of Bible-quoting intoxication under the influence of which we religious people lose the ability to distinguish between what God says and what we say God says.
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#9. Our choice, it seems, is whether we will let our past and present sufferings be sufficient to soften and break us, or whether we will resist and harden ourselves so even more suffering is required.
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#10. Learning is not the consequence of teaching or writing, but rather of thinking ... so a playful, provocative, unclear but stimulating book could actually be more worth your money than a serious, clear book that tells you what to think but doesn't make you think.
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#11. Frankly, our music has too often been shallow, discordant, or played with a wooden concern for technical correctness but without feeling and passion.
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#12. Jesus faithfully and courageously represented the nonviolent and loving heart of God. Jesus and his way of nonviolent, self-giving love, the text suggests, will earn the trust of all humanity. We will ultimately migrate, in other words, toward the way of Jesus.
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#13. I'm sure I am wrong about many things, although I'm not sure exactly which things I'm wrong about. I'm even sure I'm wrong about what I think I'm right about in at least some cases.
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#14. he encouraged them to explore their doubts, ask their questions, and express themselves honestly. Many people crave certainty. They don't want to have to think, agonize, or grapple with life's difficult questions for themselves. Instead they want dogma. They want guaranteed answers.
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#15. I must add, though, that I don't believe making disciples must equal making adherents to the Christian religion. It may be advisable in many (not all!) circumstances to help people become followers of Jesus and remain within their Buddhist, Hindu, or Jewish contexts.
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#16. As I see it, religion is at its best when it leads us forward, when it guides us in our spiritual growth as individuals and in our cultural evolution as a species. Unfortunately,
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#17. Jesus called disciples so He could send them out as apostles. They were called together to learn so they could be sent out to teach and serve.
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#18. If a spiritual community only points back to where it has been or if it only digs in its heels where it is now, it is a dead end or a parking lot, not a way.
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#19. You know what, the thing that breaks my heart is that there's no way I can answer it without hurting someone on either side.
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#20. 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.
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#22. I don't think we should give up on ritual. I don't think we should give up on any possible means of experiencing God.
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#23. Why are so many religious people arguing about the origin of the species but so few concerned about the extinction of the species?
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#24. So if God is forgotten, we want to join God in being forgotten. So if God is rejected and opposed and misunderstood and misrepresented, we want to suffer each indignity and sorrow with God.
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#25. Isn't the real scandal not that our religious leaders might be imagined walking across a road or talking as friends together in a bar, but rather that their followers are found speaking against one another as enemies, day after day in situation after situation?
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#26. We are not scholars researching an ancient Chinese emperor - a matter of objectivity and disinterestedness; we are sons and daughters who want to get to know our father - someone with whom we have an essential relationship.
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#27. If Jesus, Moses, the Buddha and Mohammed
were to bump into each other along the road
and go have a cup of tea or whatever,
I think we all know
they would treat one another far different and far better
than a lot of their followers would.
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#28. What today throws at you will force you to become better or bitter for tomorrow; it will push you toward breakdown or breakthrough ...
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#29. It's not about the church meeting your needs; it's about joining the mission of God's people to meet the world's needs.
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#30. Enter faith, and a whole new factor enters the equation. Words like "impossible" seem out of place. Despair and cynicism feel like insults to God. Hope grows, and love, and therefore motivation to care, to give, to act, to try, to dream, to risk.
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#31. when a culture needs wise spiritual guidance the most, all it gets from religious leaders is anxious condemnation and critique, along with a big dose of nostalgia for the lost golden age of the good old days. We
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#32. When wealth is your god, weapons are your sacrament, and your own children are your sacrifice -
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