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  • Brian D. McLaren Quote - The cross is almost a distraction and false advertisement for God.
  • Brian D. McLaren Quote - The cross is almost a distraction and false advertisement for God.
  • Brian D. McLaren Quote - The cross is almost a distraction and false advertisement for God.
  • Brian D. McLaren Quote - The cross is almost a distraction and false advertisement for God.
  • Brian D. McLaren Quote - The cross is almost a distraction and false advertisement for God.
  • Brian D. McLaren Quote - The cross is almost a distraction and false advertisement for God.
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The cross is almost a distraction and false advertisement for God.

Brian D. McLaren

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Brian D. McLaren Quote - A sacred and almost unspeakable pleasure, but the consumer wrongly thinks that one finds this pleasure by having more and more possessions instead of possessing them more truly through grateful contemplation. And here we are, living in an economy that perpetuates this tragedy. Download This Image

    A sacred and almost unspeakable pleasure, but the consumer wrongly thinks that one finds this pleasure by having more and more possessions instead of possessing them more truly through grateful contemplation. And here we are, living in an economy that perpetuates this tragedy.

    BRIAN D. MCLAREN
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Brian D. McLaren Quote - Ask me if Christianity (my version of it, yours, the Pope’s, whoever’s) is orthodox, meaning true, and here’s my honest answer: a little, but not yet.

    Ask me if Christianity (my version of it, yours, the Pope’s, whoever’s) is orthodox, meaning true, and here’s my honest answer: a little, but not yet.

    BRIAN D. MCLAREN
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Brian D. McLaren Quote - We must never underestimate our power to be wrong when talking about God, when thinking about God, when imagining God, whether in prose or in poetry. Download This Image

    We must never underestimate our power to be wrong when talking about God, when thinking about God, when imagining God, whether in prose or in poetry.

    BRIAN D. MCLAREN
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Brian D. McLaren Quote - I don’t think we’ve got the gospel right yet.I don’t think the liberals have it right. But I don’t think we have it right either. None of us has arrived at orthodoxy. Download This Image

    I don’t think we’ve got the gospel right yet.I don’t think the liberals have it right. But I don’t think we have it right either. None of us has arrived at orthodoxy.

    BRIAN D. MCLAREN
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Brian D. McLaren Quote - And what if, instead of arguing about which form is correct and legitimate, we were to honor, appreciate, and validate one another and see ourselves as servants of one grander mission, apostles of one greater message, seekers on one ultimate quest? Download This Image

    And what if, instead of arguing about which form is correct and legitimate, we were to honor, appreciate, and validate one another and see ourselves as servants of one grander mission, apostles of one greater message, seekers on one ultimate quest?

    BRIAN D. MCLAREN
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Brian D. McLaren Quote - When any sector of the Church stops learning, God simply overflows the structures that are in the way and works outside them with those willing to learn. Download This Image

    When any sector of the Church stops learning, God simply overflows the structures that are in the way and works outside them with those willing to learn.

    BRIAN D. MCLAREN
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Brian D. McLaren Quote - A friend of mine says that in the world of religion we often have ignorance on fire and intelligence on ice. Download This Image

    A friend of mine says that in the world of religion we often have ignorance on fire and intelligence on ice.

    BRIAN D. MCLAREN
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Brian D. McLaren Quote - I think it changes everything. You can say the same creed that you said before, but now it’s not a creed that grasps God in the fist of the words, but it’s a creed that points up to a beauty that’s beyond anybody’s grasp.

    I think it changes everything. You can say the same creed that you said before, but now it’s not a creed that grasps God in the fist of the words, but it’s a creed that points up to a beauty that’s beyond anybody’s grasp.

    BRIAN D. MCLAREN
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Brian D. McLaren Quote - You can’t capture it in a word or a formula. When you get to that humble place where the beauty of God has overwhelmed you,

    You can’t capture it in a word or a formula. When you get to that humble place where the beauty of God has overwhelmed you,

    BRIAN D. MCLAREN
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Brian D. McLaren Quote - Joyfully celebrating the killing of a killer who joyfully celebrated killing carries an irony that I hope will not be lost on us. Are we learning anything, or simply spinning harder in the cycle of violence?

    Joyfully celebrating the killing of a killer who joyfully celebrated killing carries an irony that I hope will not be lost on us. Are we learning anything, or simply spinning harder in the cycle of violence?

    BRIAN D. MCLAREN
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Brian D. McLaren Quote - Our networks of dialogue and action thus extend beyond Christian communities to persons of all faiths, as well as to communities that are not themselves faith-based. We welcome allies and allegiances wherever we find common cause. Download This Image

    Our networks of dialogue and action thus extend beyond Christian communities to persons of all faiths, as well as to communities that are not themselves faith-based. We welcome allies and allegiances wherever we find common cause.

    BRIAN D. MCLAREN
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Brian D. McLaren Quote - The Bible is not considered an accurate, absolute, authoritative, or authoritarian source but a book to be experienced and one experience can be as valid as any other can. Download This Image

    The Bible is not considered an accurate, absolute, authoritative, or authoritarian source but a book to be experienced and one experience can be as valid as any other can.

    BRIAN D. MCLAREN
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Brian D. McLaren Quote - The scarily brilliant Romantic poet and visionary William Blake dared to say what many of us have perhaps thought but kept to ourselves: “A good local pub has much in common with a church, except that a pub is warmer, and there’s more conversation. Download This Image

    The scarily brilliant Romantic poet and visionary William Blake dared to say what many of us have perhaps thought but kept to ourselves: “A good local pub has much in common with a church, except that a pub is warmer, and there’s more conversation.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Brian D. McLaren Quote - …the tragedy of consumerism: one acquires more and more things without taking the time to ever see and know them, and thus one never truly enjoys them. One has without truly having. The consumer is right-there is pleasure to be had in good things. Download This Image

    …the tragedy of consumerism: one acquires more and more things without taking the time to ever see and know them, and thus one never truly enjoys them. One has without truly having. The consumer is right-there is pleasure to be had in good things.

    BRIAN D. MCLAREN
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Brian D. McLaren Quote - One of the things that’s happening to a lot of us is that there’s this vision of the beauty of God that transports us and that takes us to a new depth and a new height. It’s one of those things about beauty.

    One of the things that’s happening to a lot of us is that there’s this vision of the beauty of God that transports us and that takes us to a new depth and a new height. It’s one of those things about beauty.

    BRIAN D. MCLAREN
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Brian D. McLaren Quote - To be a Christian in a generously orthodox way is not to claim to have the truth captured, stuffed, and mounted on the wall.

    To be a Christian in a generously orthodox way is not to claim to have the truth captured, stuffed, and mounted on the wall.

    BRIAN D. MCLAREN