"Jesus was short on sermons, long on conversations;……" — Brian D. McLaren
"Jesus was short on sermons, long on conversations; short on answers, long on questions; short on abstraction and propositions, long on stories and parables; short on telling you what to think, long on challenging you to think for yourself."
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36 Quotes by Brian D. McLaren
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Too often we see the Bible through whatever lens we get from our culture.
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Since I was introduced to the practice of God's presence, which in turn led me into the contemplative way, I…
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Baptism is rich in meaning. It suggests cleansing. When you are a disciple, you understand that you are cleansed by…
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To be a Christian in a generously orthodox way is not to claim to have the truth captured, stuffed, and…
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It used to be that Christian institutions and systems of dogma sustained the spiritual life of Christians. Increasingly, spirituality itself…
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The church has been preoccupied with the question, 'What happens to your soul after you die?' AS IF THE REASON…
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Tony [Campolo] and I might disagree on the details, but I think we are both trying to find an alternative…
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What if Jesus' secret message reveals a secret plan?”. What if he didn't come to start a new religion-but rather…
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The church latched on to that old doctrine of original sin like a dog to a stick, and before you…
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Jesus doesn’t dominate the other, avoid the other, colonize the other, intimidate the other, demonize the other, or marginalize the…
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Sometimes I have experienced God in extraordinary ways - in dramatic surprises or soul-expanding insights or unexplainable mystical encounters. More…
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One of the things that's happening to a lot of us is that there's this vision of the beauty of…
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More Abstraction Quotes
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Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature.
— Josef Albers
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That's what it is that you rehearse - the making of music, not the playing of notes as abstractions.
— Sarah Caldwell
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Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
— Paul Cezanne
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So the universe is constantly moving in the direction of higher evolutionary impulses, creativity, abstraction, and meaning.
— Deepak Chopra
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Love is not some complex, mystical abstraction. It is something accessible and human that we learn through our everyday experience,…
— Leo Buscaglia
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The spiritual life is not a special career, involving abstraction from the world of things. It is a part of…
— Evelyn Underhill
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The individual is the true reality of life. A cosmos in himself, he does not exist for the State, nor…
— Emma Goldman
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The truly modern artist is aware of abstraction in an emotion of beauty.
— Piet Mondrian
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Do not copy nature too much. Art is an abstraction.
— Paul Gauguin
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The abstraction is often the most definite form for the intangible thing in myself that I can clarify in paint.
— Georgia O'Keeffe
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Of the many forms of false culture, a premature converse with abstractions is perhaps the most likely to prove fatal…
— George Boole
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It is astonishing that so simple a truth should ever have had an adversary; and it is one among a…
— Alexander Hamilton
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