T.L. Manning Quotes

A man doesn't grow old because he has lived a certain number of years. A man grows old when he deserts his ideal. The years may wrinkle his skin, but deserting his ideal wrinkles his soul.

By and large, the gospel of grace is neither proclaimed, understood, nor lived.

As a brother and sister, our tastes were pretty different growing up. He liked a lot of early hip hop. My dad didn't understand it and would try to talk him out of it.

New Orleans is just a doggone fun place to be.

In human beings, love is a quality, a high-prized virtue; in God, love is His identity.

If asked whether I am finally letting God love me, just as I am, I would answer, 'No, but I'm trying.

Accepting the reality of our sinfulness means accepting our authentic self. Judas could not face his shadow; Peter could. The latter befriended the impostor within; the former raged against him.

Prayer is first and foremost an act of love

It is for the inconsistent, unsteady disciples whose cheese is falling off their cracker.

All that is good is ours not by right but by the sheer bounty of a gracious God

One of my realizations in such an earthy atmosphere was that many of the burning theological issues in the church were neither burning nor theological.

Trust is our gift back to God, and he finds it so enchanting that Jesus died for love of it

Don't try to understand it. You won't succeed. Don't try to see it. You can't. Try to live it, and you will be living out of the center.

Only reckless confidence in a Source greater than ourselves can empower us to forgive the woulds inflicted by others.

All I have learned through trial and error is to stay alert and aware, especially God smiling @ our silliness.

The first step in faith is to stop thinking about God at the time of prayer.-

False gods - the gods of human understanding - despise sinners, but the Father of Jesus loves all, no matter what they do. But of course this is almost too incredible for us to accept.

Visibility is not equality.

I don't believe that Freedom of Information laws, which have arbitrary time periods or broad blanket exemptions, meet the level of transparency that society needs today.

I'm not a 25-interception quarterback, I know that.

I'm going to go out and be the best quarterback I can be and get the most out of my potential.

I leave my heart on the court every night. I earn my keep.

My cutter has been key for me, and my curveball. I've been able to spot them where I want to spot them.

To call it a crime against Mankind is to miss at least half its significance, it is also the punishment of a crime.

Malcolm X represents the cutting edge of a kind of critique of globalization in the 21st century. In fact, Malcolm, if anything, was far ahead of the curve in so many ways.

Malcolm X is a person who has inspired - he has been the muse of several generations of black cultural workers, artists, poets, playwrights.

I'm not an attorney or a person who does intellectual property .

It's enough just to speak when spoken to, to give some minimal reaction to a stimulus. But to actually be the stimulus doesn't even occur to me.

In life, and in sports, we all know that nothing lasts forever.

Negative is always more newsworthy than positive.

Besides my religious commitment, the greatest single factor that has enabled me to pursue my business and political objectives has been the security and freedom of my home.

There is a whole school of Canadian academics, media personalities, and politicians whose definition of a Canadian is a North American who fears or dislikes the United States.

One day you’ll wake up and find that the pain’s still there but it doesn’t hurt quite so much.

There's really nothing else I'm going to do with my life. I'd be useless if I weren't singing or acting

It's just different in the music world. You come more with an entourage

It's really hard for actors to cross over and get any respect as a singer, and if I could just keep it separate and not use my music in movies, it's cool.

Lauren Hill, I always have her solo CD nearby. I have Coldplay, Radiohead, just a mix

Stop comparing or boast at your victories. He was referring to enormous vitality and strength of God of Jesus seeking union with us. The living acts of a Christian become somehow the acts of Christ.

I guess they're called moments because they don't last very long.

Without exposure to potential failure, there is no risk.

Though it is true that the church must always dissociate itself from sin, it can never have any excuse for keeping any sinner at a distance.

No man can adequately reach and explain a single word of God with all his words

Do the truth quietly without display.

The Word we study has to be the Word we pray.

Hope your wildest hopes, dream your maddest dreams, imagine your most fantastic fantasies. Where your hopes and your dreams and your imagination leave off, the love of my Heavenly Father only begins.

Jesus hung out with ragamuffins.

There is an extraordinary power in storytelling that stirs the imagination and makes an indelible impression on the mind.

The ancient spiritual tradition is that God gives himself fully to us in silence and solitude.

God loves us as we are...not as we ought to be. because we are never going to be as we ought to be." --Brennan Manning

God is a kooky God who can scarcely bear to be without us.