"In every encounter we either give life or we drain it; there is no neutral exchange."

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Source : Brennan Manning (2014). “Abba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging”, p.101, Tyndale House

Brennan Manning

#Giving Quotes #Encounters Quotes #Drains Quotes

“I cannot be what I am not.”
“Your suffering only matters if it connects you to the suffering of others, if it heals them too.”

Source : Geoffrey Wood (2011). “Leaper: The Misadventures of a Not-Necessarily-Super Hero”, WaterBrook
“You can be betrayed in your sleep. The whole world can tilt while you're dreaming of butterflies.”
“There are those who spend their lives studying it and those who spend their lives doing it.”

Source : "Biography/ Mini Bio". www.imdb.com.
“Participating in Society in not a thing one can do naturally; one has to rehearse for it.”
“To err is dysfunctional, to forgive co-dependent.”
“People learn a lot about what they think they know about other people from what they see in the media. If they see certain types of images reproduced over and over again for other groups that limit them to narrow types of roles and portrayals, they start to take those prejudices into their interactions with those people in real society, and that creates all kinds of discriminatory problems.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“Only stupid people don't change their minds.”

Source : "The Change in the Administration's Position". Interview with Arnaud de Borchgrave, www.globalpolicy.org. November 11, 1996.

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