Quotes
Authors
Brennan Manning

"We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God... It is a strange fact that Christians and even ministers frequently consider their work so important and urgent that they will allow nothing to disturb them. They think they are doing God a service in this but actually they are disdaining God's "crooked but straight path". It is part of the discipline of humility that we must not spare our hand where it can perform service and that we do not assume that our schedule is our own to manage, but allow it to be arranged by God."

Source : Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Samuel Wells (2015). “Life Together”, p.76, SCM Press

Brennan Manning

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“The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.”
“Fire, loveliest of the four elements of the world, and yet an element too in Hell. While it burned adoringly in the core of the Temple, it had also scorched the life from a city, this night, and spewed its venom over the land. How strange of God to speak from a burning bush, and of Man to make a symbol of Heaven into a symbol of Hell.”

Source : Walter M. Miller Jr (2014). “A Canticle For Leibowitz”, p.156, Hachette UK
“Only the strongest players can swim in the shark-infested waters of the Masters' Seas.”

Source : Victor Niederhoffer (1998). “The Education of a Speculator”, p.168, John Wiley & Sons
“It is because the fight against the harshest aspects of unrestricted capitalism is therefore a political problem and not an intellectual one that community action remains so essential.”
“It is often said that everything happens for a reason, but you must embrace the perspective that it's never a reason that is predetermined or out of your control. It is always your responsibility to choose the most empowering reasons for the occurrences of your life.”
“A childhood without books â€“ that would be no childhood. That would be like being shut out from the enchanted place where you can go and find the rarest kind of joy.”
“Christmas albums are not something you do frequently.”
“Had it lived long, is would have been Lilies without, roses within.”

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