Brennan Manning Ragamuffin Gospel Quotes

#1. Yet beauty is a shallow thing. So fleeting. Strength, intelligence, spirit, these things can be far more appealing than what lies on the surface of a thing. And power, of course. For power, true power, can last forever.

Kyra Dune

#2. Well Mike, I'm abnormal.

Frank Zappa

#3. Sooner or later everything will turn to dust - except love

Rasheed Ogunlaru

#4. The ragamuffin gospel says we can't lose, because we have nothing to lose.

Brennan Manning

#5. I love lyrics. They help me to figure things out.

Colleen Saidman

#6. My head was full of tidying tips, and I had complete, albeit misguided, confidence that I could tidy any place.

Marie Kondo

#7. And I'm sorry I ever called you an arrogant know-it-all." "I never heard you say that." "Well, it wasn't to your face.

Adam Jay Epstein

#8. At Sunday worship, as in every dimension of our existence, many of us pretend to believe we are sinners. Consequently, all we can do is pretend we have been forgiven. As a result, our whole spiritual life is pseudo-repentance and pseudo-bliss.

Brennan Manning

#9. When our inner child is not nurtured and nourished, our minds gradually close to new ideas, unprofitable commitments and the surprises of the Spirit.

Brennan Manning

#10. God is a kooky God who can scarcely bear to be without us.

Brennan Manning

#11. I'm real. I believe what I'm saying. If Motel 6 wasn't the type of operation they say it is - and I stay at them when I travel - I wouldn't do their commercials. That comes through on the radio, and that's what it's all about.

Tom Bodett

#12. I sang her a soft song, and she gave me a hug, and when she told me she loved me, my heart ached.

Staci Hart

#13. God not only loves me as I am, but also knows me as I am. Because of this I don't need to apply spiritual cosmetics to make myself presentable to Him. I can accept ownership of my poverty and powerlessness and neediness.

Brennan Manning

#14. It delights me to find something that kids are doing that surprises me that seems new. That's the best feeling you can have.

John Waters

#15. War isn't a TV show with plot twists to keep the viewers interested. The proliferation of images and blanket media coverage have suffocated the life out of old-style photojournalism.

David Burnett

#16. The ragamuffin gospel reveals that Jesus forgives sins, including the sins of the flesh; that He is comfortable with sinners who remember how to show compassion; but that He cannot and will not have a relationship with pretenders in the Spirit.

Brennan Manning

#17. The beauty of the ragamuffin gospel lies in the insight it offers into Jesus: the essential tenderness of His heart, His way of looking at the world, His mode of relating to you and me. 'If you really want to understand a man, don't just listen to what he says, but watch what he does.

Brennan Manning

#18. People talk about the All Woman video to this day.

Lisa Stansfield

#19. There's a tendency on the part of Americans, all of us, to say, 'Hey, the Cold War is over, the Soviet Union is gone, we don't have to worry about these guys again.' We always have to be worried about them, we always have to be concerned about them, and we have to be well-informed.

Russ Feingold

#20. But I'm quite sure of one thing: If it's possible to do something, sooner or later someone's going to do it.

Sergei Lukyanenko

#21. When we wallow in guilt, remorse, and shame over real or imagined sins of the past, we are disdaining God's gift of grace.

Brennan Manning

#22. There is a beautiful transparency to honest disciples who never wear a false face and do not pretend to be anything but who they are.

Brennan Manning

#23. The sea is not less beautiful in our eyes because we know that sometimes ships are wrecked by it.

Simone Weil