T.L. Manning Quotes
Whiteness in a racist, corporate-controlled society is like having the image of an American Express Cardstamped on one's face: immediately you are “universally accepted.”
High-tech tomatoes. Mysterious milk. Supersquash. Are we supposed to eat this stuff? Or is it going to eat us?
Anxiety, depression, and suicide don't discriminate based on how much money you have - though it might make it easier for you to get help.
I don't think that I'm embracing any kind of leadership for transparency or trans advocacy.
Ruthless trust ultimately comes down to this: faith in the person of Jesus and hope in his promise.
For me the most radical demand of Christian faith lies in summoning the courage to say yes to the present risenness of Jesus Christ.
After reading Eminem's autobiography, which I did because I'm so interested in him as an artist, I respect him a lot. Even though he seems angry and mad, he's had to fight so many demons in his life.
I'll bring what I bring to the tale, but it's good to know you have two guys with the experience and know-how in big games.
We have been given God in our souls and Christ in our flesh. We have the power to believe where others deny, to hope where others despair, to love where others hurt.
The crisis of black politics can only be resolved through the development of multiclass, multiracial, progressive political structures.
Grace is sufficient even though we huff and puff with all our might to try and find something or someone that it cannot cover. Grace is enough...
After a loss like this we just have to go back and work harder. We got outplayed and that's all there is to it. You have to let it go, move on and just work harder.
If in our hearts we really don't believe that God loves us as we are, if we are still tainted by the lie that we can do something to make God love us more, we are rejecting the message of the cross.
When our inner child is not nurtured and nourished, our minds gradually close to new ideas, unprofitable commitments and the surprises of the Spirit.
It goes without saying, winning against a good team in a hostile crowd on the road, it's just an absolutely huge win.
The gospel will persuade no one unless it has so convicted us that we are transformed by it.
It can be so difficult to get people to think about systemic institutional problems. It is easier just to see the actions of one or two people and say, "That's wrong!"
Ragamuffins are simple, direct and honest. Their speech is unaffected. They are slow to claim, "God told me..." As they make their way through the world, they bear wordless, prophetic witness.
We used to sleep five to a bed and three of them used to wet the bed. I learnt to swim before I could walk.
I've got cheekier with age. You can get away with murder when you're 71 years old. People just think I'm a silly old fool.
The trouble with our ideals is that if we live up to all of them, we become impossible to live with.
When we wallow in guilt, remorse, and shame over real or imagined sins of the past, we are disdaining God's gift of grace.
Trust is that rare and priceless treasure that wins us the affection of our heavenly Father.
I have been seized by the power of a great affection.
Everybody has a vocation to some form of life-work. However, behind that call (and deeper than any call), everybody has a vocation to be a person to be fully and deeply human in Christ Jesus.
Real freedom is freedom from the opinions of others. Above all, freedom from your opinions about yourself.
I'm very, very, very, very spiritual. I grew up in an organized religion, I went to Sunday school as a kid. I'm very grateful that there was religion. I think it instills a good moral compass.
The 'We Have Overcome' generation has run out of intellectual creativity but refuses to leave the political stage.
I go crazy trying to energize people, 'cause that's what I am. I'm a battery. If you're down, you can plug into me and get charged up.
The men and women who are truly filled with light are those who have gazed deeply into the darkness of their own imperfect existence.
In my experience, self-hatred is the dominant malaise crippling Christians and stifling their growth in the Holy Spirit.
With acting, I get to escape into this character and embody it. With music it's like, "Hey guys, this is my diary, here's all my feelings."
Troubadours have always been more important and influential than theologians and bishops
I would like to think I will be a guy who knows when it's time to stop. I don't want to be a guy who hung on and hung on. I do not have a goal in mind of a year or a statistic.
Deep inside, we're still the boys of autumn, that magic time of the year that once swept us onto America's fields.
The pitch count situatio-it doesn't matter if you throw 120 or 80, whatever. It's the quality of pitches that you throw.
Gene Roberts, one of Malcolm's X chiefs of security, was an NYPD undercover cop. He later went on to bigger things by being a disruptive force inside of the Black Panther Party.
If you want to drink, have a drink... if you want to drive, then drive... there's nothing worse than having a smash sober.
God is loving us - you and me - this moment, just as we are and not as we should be.
Nobody really wants to hear about anybody else's injuries. Or how your back feels. Whose back doesn't hurt?
