"None of us has ever seen a motive.……" — Brennan Manning
"None of us has ever seen a motive. Therefore, we don't know we can't do anything more than suspect what inspires the action of another. For this good and valid reason, we're told not to judge. Tragedy is that our attention centers on what people are not, rather than on what they are and who they might become."
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Brennan Manning
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183 Quotes by Brennan Manning
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In every encounter we either give life or we drain it; there is no neutral exchange.
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