T.L. Manning Quotes

I'm not interested in fame and glory. It's just that I would like others to know what a happy dance this is.

I've never seen a Lindy Hopper who wasn't smiling. It's a happy dance. It makes you feel good.

Be daring enough to be different, humble enough to make mistakes, wild enough to be burnt in the fire of love, real enough to make others see how phony you are.

God loves you unconditionally, as you are and not as you should be, because nobody is as they should be.

To be alive is to be broken; to be broken is to stand in need of grace.

My deepest awareness of myself is that I am deeply loved by Jesus Christ and I have done nothing to earn it or deserve it.

Hope is essential to any political struggle for radical change when the overall social climate promotes disillusionment and despair.

Remind your critics when they say you don't have the expertise or experience to do something that an amateur built the ark and the experts built the Titanic

A saint is not someone who is good but who experiences the goodness of God.

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

You hear about how many fourth quarter comebacks that a guy has and I think it means a guy screwed up in the first three quarters.

To live by grace means to acknowledge my whole life story, the light side and the dark. In admitting my shadow side I learn who I am and what God's grace means.

Even though it seems like there are a lot of parts, there is really tons of downtime in the acting world.

Jesus comes not for the super-spiritual but for the wobbly and the weak-kneed who know they don’t have it all together, and who are not too proud to accept the handout of amazing grace.

Our identity rests in God's relentless tenderness for us revealed in Jesus Christ.

I want people to see the truth... regardless of who they are... because without information, you cannot make informed decisions as a public.

Do not ghettoize society by putting people into legal categories of gender, race, ethnicity, language, or other such characteristics.

In Love's service, only wounded soldiers can serve.

With the game on the line. I want the ball in my hands.

Lindy Hoppers never die - they just swing out.

I once bought my kids a set of batteries for Christmas with a note on it saying, toys not included.

The litmus test of our love for God is our love of neighbor.

The gospel declares that no matter how dutiful or prayerful we are, we can't save ourselves. What Jesus did was sufficient.

We wanted to write a whole song about partying and then taking Yellow Cabs home. That's the weirdest topic we've ever thought of centering a song around.

I never taught people where to step on '2', because when I learned how to dance there was no '2'. We just danced to the music.

I am convinced that the Black man will only reach his full potential when he learns to draw upon the strengths and insights of the Black woman.

That which is denied cannot be healed.

Never shield your oddness, but wear your oddness as a shield.

The deepest desire of our hearts is for union for God. God created us for union with himself. This is the original purpose of our lives.

I prefer a painful truth over any blissful fantasy.

The attitude with which we approach the situation can determine our success or failure.

We should be astonished at the goodness of God, stunned that He should bother to call us by name, our mouths wide open at His love, bewildered that at this very moment we are standing on holy ground.

I go through life with a smile because I know things can be worse than they are.

I never left the field saying I could have done more to get ready and that gives me peace of mind.

Our culture says that ruthless competition is the key to success. Jesus says that ruthless compassion is the purpose of our journey.

Some people might say I need to learn how to relax.

I am Chelsea Manning. I am a female. Given the way that I feel, and have felt since childhood, I want to begin hormone therapy as soon as possible.

Jesus reveals a God who does not demand but who gives; who does not oppress but who raises up; who does not wound but who heals; who does not condemn but forgives.

How glorious the splendor of a human heart that trusts that it is loved!

If you wait for others to initiate change you automatically become a follower.

I don't think in the past. I don't think in the future. You grasp the moment.

Define yourself radically as one beloved by God. This is the true self. Every other identity is illusion.

Our hearts of stone become hearts of flesh when we learn where the outcast weeps.

When a man or woman is truly honest, it is virtually impossible to insult them personally.

Jesus comes for sinners, for those outcast...and those caught up in squalid choices and failed dreams.

To lend each other a hand when we're falling, perhaps that's the only work that matters in the end.

We even refuse to be our true self with God- and then wonder why we lack intimacy with him.

We must go out into a desert of some kind (your backyard will do) and come into a personal experience of the awesome love of God.

Sometimes You Have to Pay a Heavy Price to Live in a Free Society

The Christian with depth is the person who has failed and who has learned to live with it.