The 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. Greenspun's Tenth Rule of Programming: any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc informally-specified bug-ridden slow implementation of half of Common Lisp.

Philip Greenspun

#5. This circus games aspect has existed since the beginning of my career.

Placido Domingo

#6. I'm just like everybody else. I have two arms, two legs and four-thousand hits.

Pete Rose

#7. And who is any of us, that without starvation he can go through the kingdoms of starvation?

Haniel Long

#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. Where is the weapon with which I enforce your bondage? You give it to me every time you open your mouth.

Frank Herbert

#12. Sunday school don't make you cool forever.

Sly Stone

#13. Like the tiger, that seldom desists from pursuing man after having once preyed upon human flesh, the reader who has once gratified his appetite with calumny makes ever after the most agreeable feast upon murdered reputations!

Oliver Goldsmith

#14. Back pocket Richie took a flattened can which had once held Del Monte pineapple chunks. There was a ragged hole about two inches in diameter through

Stephen King

#15. Free from what? What does that matter to Zarathustra! Clearly, however, shall your eye show to me: free for what?

Friedrich Nietzsche

#16. She was sensible and clever, but eager in everything; her sorrows, her joys, could have no moderation.

Jane Austen

#17. The light has gone out of our lives and there is darkness everywhere following Gandhi's assassination.

Jawaharlal Nehru

#18. Whoever established the high road, and how high it should be, should be fired.

Sandra Bullock

#19. 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

#20. I only write when I'm angry or sad, so because that's when I just have to write ... If I'm having a good time and I'm happy and things are going really well, why would I want to stop what I'm doing to go and write at the piano?

Fiona Apple

#21. Without animals, there would be no humanity. In a world of just people, people will mean nothing ...

Chuck Palahniuk

#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. 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

#24. In his head, his mother said, 'People shout when they don't have the vocabulary to whisper'.

Maggie Stiefvater