Ragamuffin Gospel Quotes

#1. 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

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

Brennan Manning

#3. 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

#4. Son, you'll know you're in love when a woman's voice settles into your spine.

David Weber

#5. 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

#6. We are all deserving of love.

Sandra Bullock

#7. It's important to over-deliver on the quality of the books as far as depth and content. It's not worth it to cut out 50 pages just because it would be a little bit cheaper.

Ian Christe

#8. 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

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

Brennan Manning

#10. Writing this book required an enormous amount of help from friends. To them goes the credit. I'll take the money.

P. J. O'Rourke

#11. In this era of political correctness, some people seem unaware that being squeamish about words can mean being blind to realities.

Thomas Sowell

#12. The attitude of the Democrat Party is that wherever there are Republicans they are so bad, they are so discriminatory, they are so racist, they're so bigoted, they're just such reprobates that we can't afford to let them have any say whatsoever in what's happening.

Rush Limbaugh

#13. Only grabbing the necessary tools and getting to work, you'll build the path you'll use to get where you wanna go.

Pamela Nicole

#14. And then, when I thought about joining the Air Force, flying seemed like a natural extension of the motorcycling experience. You're going faster, higher. You're operating a machine that's a lot more powerful than you are.

Duane G. Carey

#15. The problem with Yanks is they are wimps.

Gordon Ramsay

#16. Michael J. Fox was my idol. I always wanted to be Michael J. Fox.

Dave Annable

#17. Whatever is gold does not glitter. A gentle radiance belongs to the noblest metal.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#18. Traditional ad agencies have so much to unlearn.

Edward Boches

#19. I never believed the anchorman should be the know-it-all. And I try to communicate that to the audience. While I have some knowledge from my years of experience, what I want to do is walk you through this because we're all walking through this together.

Lester Holt

#20. 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

#21. 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

#22. 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

#23. No one can learn to love by following a manual and no one can learn to write by following a course. I'm not telling you to find people with different skills from yourself, because writing is no different from any other activity done with joy and enthusiasm.

Paulo Coelho