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Too often we see the Bible through whatever lens we get from our culture.
— Brian D. McLaren
People have no idea how strong a pull sex, money, and power have on them until they try to resist their pull.
— Brian D. McLaren
We need not a new set of beliefs, but a new way of believing, not simply new answers to the same old questions, but a new set of questions.
— Brian D. McLaren
The cross is almost a distraction and false advertisement for God.
— Brian D. McLaren
Gratitude helps you to grow and expand; gratitude brings JOY and laughter into your life and into the lives of all those around you.
— Eileen Caddy
If I get any private time in my trailer, all of a sudden I'm doing sit-ups and push-ups.
— Christina Hendricks
For as I pass through death's door let me sing my favorite melody and finish it on the other side.
— Johnny Flora
If your goal is to produce firefighters and rescue workers, you have to produce people willing to enter burning buildings.
— Brian D. McLaren
Like all people who have nothing, I lived on dreams.
— Anzia Yezierska
Trying to stop people from learning, sharing, and loving is a losing game because it means working against God and the plotline of God's universe.
— Brian D. McLaren
Jesus called disciples so He could send them out as apostles. They were called together to learn so they could be sent out to teach and serve.
— Brian D. McLaren
It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.
— Brian D. McLaren
I love writers who are insightful enough to be cynical but choose not to be.
— Brian D. McLaren
Why are so many religious people arguing about the origin of the species but so few concerned about the extinction of the species?
— Brian D. McLaren
Christian faith for me is no longer a static location but a great spiritual journey. And that changes everything.
— Brian McLaren
When wealth is your god, weapons are your sacrament, and your own children are your sacrifice -
— Brian D. McLaren
The Christian faith, I am proposing, should become (in the name of Jesus Christ) a welcome friend to other religions of the world, not a threat
— Brian D. McLaren
That in itself is an act of peacemaking, because we're seeking to align our wills with God's will, our dreams with God's dream.
— Brian D. McLaren
Through study we welcome the light of God into our minds.
— Brian D. McLaren
Frankly, our music has too often been shallow, discordant, or played with a wooden concern for technical correctness but without feeling and passion.
— Brian D. McLaren
The greatest wisdom consists in knowing one's own follies.
— Madeleine De Souvre Sable
I had to face the possibility that the art of living in the way of Jesus was no longer carried on in a holistic way by any single tradition.
— Brian D. McLaren
I don't think we should give up on ritual. I don't think we should give up on any possible means of experiencing God.
— Brian D. McLaren
Some people
and I pray I will be one of them
never forget what it was like, which enables them to mentor people of any age. — Brian D. McLaren
and I pray I will be one of them
never forget what it was like, which enables them to mentor people of any age. — Brian D. McLaren
What today throws at you will force you to become better or bitter for tomorrow; it will push you toward breakdown or breakthrough ...
— Brian D. McLaren
Our message and methodology have changed, do change, and must change if we are faithful to the ongoing and unchanging mission of Jesus Christ.
— Brian D. McLaren
Accumulating orthodoxy makes it harder year-by-year to be a Christian than it was in Jesus' day.
— Brian D. McLaren
No weapon formed against you will prosper. But make no mistake, the weapon will be formed.
— Christine Caine
You know what, the thing that breaks my heart is that there's no way I can answer it without hurting someone on either side.
— Brian D. McLaren
Spiritual practices are ways of becoming awake and staying awake to God.
— Brian D. McLaren
It's not about the church meeting your needs; it's about joining the mission of God's people to meet the world's needs.
— Brian D. McLaren
When would-be reformers arise, they are rejected as heretics, turncoats, troublemakers, disturbers of the peace, traitors, and enemies.
— Brian D. McLaren