"Sometimes I have experienced God in extraordinary ways……" — Brian D. McLaren
"Sometimes I have experienced God in extraordinary ways - in dramatic surprises or soul-expanding insights or unexplainable mystical encounters. More often, I have felt God's reality in the simple encouragement of a friend, in the gentle inspiration of a sermon, or in the familiar ritual of the Eucharist and I'd be less than honest if I didn't also say that at times, I've found myself in the spiritual doldrums, cast adrift, wondering if the wind would ever blow again."
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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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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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We need not a new set of beliefs, but a new way of believing, not simply new answers to the…
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Tell us what it is to be a woman so that we may know what it is to be a…
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[Our goal] is to help revive America's traditional values: faith, family, neighborhood, work and freedom. Government has no business enforcing…
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Some people think we're adrift without any guidelines. I don't. I think we've had instruction on how to live.
— Jon Voight
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Weird Weekends set out to discover the genuinely odd in the most ordinary setting. To me, it's almost a privilege…
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Men are beginning to realize that they are not individuals but persons in society, that man alone is weak and…
— Dorothy Day
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Either order in the cosmos is real, or all is chaos. If we are adrift in chaos, then the fragile…
— Russell Kirk
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A sign that a peace association is going adrift is its exclusion of other political parties, with whom it could…
— Fredrik Bajer
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True individualists are always at odds with the universe. Set adrift by their peculiar tastes and interests, they spend their…
— Rick Bayan
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With spirit we are all children of the cosmos; Without it we are orphaned and adrift.
— Deepak Chopra
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I find myself regarding existence as though from beyond the tomb, from another world; all is strange to me; I…
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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Just as at sea those who are carried away from the direction of the harbor bring themselves back on course…
— Gregory of Nyssa
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To an intellectual who is adrift in politics, a theory is an aim; to a true politician his theory is…
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