"Leadership in the church is not entrusted to……" — Brennan Manning
"Leadership in the church is not entrusted to successful fund raisers, brilliant biblical scholars, administrative geniuses, or spellbinding preachers...but to those who have been laid waste by a consuming passion for Christ - passionate men and women for whom privilege and power are trivial compared to knowing and loving Jesus."
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183 Quotes by Brennan Manning
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The greatest single cause of atheism in the world today is Christians, who acknowledge Jesus with their lips and walk…
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Craving clarity, we attempt to eliminate the risk of trusting God. Fear of the unknown path stretching ahead of us…
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A saint is not someone who is good but who experiences the goodness of God.
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Today on planet Earth, may you experience the wonder and beauty of yourself as Abba’s Child and temple of the…
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When being is divorced from doing, pious thoughts become an adequate substitute for washing dirty feet.
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May all your expectations be frustrated, may all your plans be thwarted, may all your desires be withered into nothingness,…
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In every encounter we either give life or we drain it; there is no neutral exchange.
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Jesus hung out with ragamuffins,
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God loves you unconditionally, as you are and not as you should be, because nobody is as they should be.
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Though it is true that the church must always dissociate itself from sin, it can never have any excuse for…
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Reality, truth, and Jesus Christ are incredibly open-ended
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I am deeply distressed by what I only can call in our Christian culture the idolatry of the Scriptures. For…
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I try to manage my day by my circadian rhythms because the creativity is such an elusive thing, and I…
— Scott Adams
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I think that New York is not the cultural centre of America, but the business and administrative centre of American…
— Saul Bellow
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The jam is moving toward the Capitol where Congress sits in judgment on all the administrative agencies of Government.
— Grace Abbott
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Don Keough's (CEO Coca-Cola) 11 Rules on "HOW TO LOSE": 1. Stop taking risks 2. Be content 3. Never deviate…
— Donald Keough
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No government by experts in which the masses do not have the chance to inform the experts as to their…
— John Dewey
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...the institutional arrangement whereby most professional economists are heavily burdened with teaching and administrative duties may militate against a sufficient…
— Unknown Author
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The companies only developed if the state did not intervene in the French fashion. If on the contrary a certain…
— Fernand Braudel
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The more administrative machinery we construct, be it the most modern, the less place there is for the Spirit, the…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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The very nature and purposes of Government make it impossible for administrative officials to represent fully or to bind the…
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Smearing good people like Lauchlin Currie [former administrative assistant to President Roosevelt], Alger Hiss and others is, I think, unforgiveable...…
— Eleanor Roosevelt
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My father was a civil servant, fairly sort of middle ranking, low to middle ranking. He worked almost entirely in…
— John Hume
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A threatened nation can react to uncertain dangers solely through administrative channels, to the truly embarrassing situation of perhaps overreacting
— Jurgen Habermas
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