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Brian D. McLaren Quote: “So we must realize this: the suicidal framing story that dominates our world today has no power except the power we give it by believing it. Similarly, believing an alternative and transforming framing story may turn out to be the most radical thing any of us can ever do.”

51. “So we must realize this: the suicidal framing story that dominates our world today has no power except the power we give it by believing it. Similarly, believing an alternative and transforming framing story may turn out to be the most radical thing any of us can ever do.”

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Brian D. McLaren Quote: “I guess you could say that the Bible is a book that doesn’t try to tell you what to think. Instead, it tries to teach you how to think. It stretches your thinking; it challenges you to think bigger and harder than you ever have.”

52. “I guess you could say that the Bible is a book that doesn’t try to tell you what to think. Instead, it tries to teach you how to think. It stretches your thinking; it challenges you to think bigger and harder than you ever have.”

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Brian D. McLaren Quote: “Comfort and power can become great enemies of true spirituality, which explains why we often say that the prophets come not only to comfort the afflicted, but also to afflict the comfortable.”

53. “Comfort and power can become great enemies of true spirituality, which explains why we often say that the prophets come not only to comfort the afflicted, but also to afflict the comfortable.”

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Brian D. McLaren Quote: “This is why I believe that many of our current eschatologies, intoxicated by dubious interpretations of John’s Apocalypse are not only ignorant and wrong, but dangerous and immoral.”

54. “This is why I believe that many of our current eschatologies, intoxicated by dubious interpretations of John’s Apocalypse are not only ignorant and wrong, but dangerous and immoral.”

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Brian D. McLaren Quote: “Scripture is something God had ‘let be,’ and so it is at once God’s creation and the creation of the dozens of people and communities and cultures who produced it.”

55. “Scripture is something God had ‘let be,’ and so it is at once God’s creation and the creation of the dozens of people and communities and cultures who produced it.”

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Brian D. McLaren Quote: “Politicians compete for the highest offices. Business tycoons scramble for a bigger and bigger piece of the pie. Armies march and scientists study and philosophers philosophise and preachers preach and labourers sweat. But in that silent baby, lying in that humble manger, there pulses more potential power and wisdom and grace and aliveness than all the rest of us can imagine.”

56. “Politicians compete for the highest offices. Business tycoons scramble for a bigger and bigger piece of the pie. Armies march and scientists study and philosophers philosophise and preachers preach and labourers sweat. But in that silent baby, lying in that humble manger, there pulses more potential power and wisdom and grace and aliveness than all the rest of us can imagine.”

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Brian D. McLaren Quote: “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.”

57. “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.”

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Brian D. McLaren Quote: “Acknowledging how little we know is, I think, at the core of mature faith. What we boast of as great faith may merely be a boatload of indoctrination and overconfidence.”

58. “Acknowledging how little we know is, I think, at the core of mature faith. What we boast of as great faith may merely be a boatload of indoctrination and overconfidence.”

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Brian D. McLaren Quote: “Through study we welcome the light of God into our minds.”

59. “Through study we welcome the light of God into our minds.”

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Brian D. McLaren Quote: “The cross calls humanity to stop trying to make God’s kingdom happen through coercion and force, which are always self-defeating in the end, and instead, to welcome it through self-sacrifice and vulnerability.”

60. “The cross calls humanity to stop trying to make God’s kingdom happen through coercion and force, which are always self-defeating in the end, and instead, to welcome it through self-sacrifice and vulnerability.”

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Brian D. McLaren Quote: “He creates a new kind of hero: not warriors, corporate executives, or politicians, but brave and determined activists for preemptive peace, willing to suffer with Him in the prophetic tradition of justice.”

61. “He creates a new kind of hero: not warriors, corporate executives, or politicians, but brave and determined activists for preemptive peace, willing to suffer with Him in the prophetic tradition of justice.”

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Brian D. McLaren Quote: “Doubts are the ants in the pants of faith. They keep it awake and moving. – Frederick Buechner.”

62. “Doubts are the ants in the pants of faith. They keep it awake and moving. – Frederick Buechner.”

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Brian D. McLaren Quote: “All too often, the Christian industrial project reminds me less of a religion and more of the tobacco, fossil fuel, and weapons industries: willing to harm millions to keep their business going.3.”

63. “All too often, the Christian industrial project reminds me less of a religion and more of the tobacco, fossil fuel, and weapons industries: willing to harm millions to keep their business going.3.”

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Brian D. McLaren Quote: “Yes, you can choose to say you believe something. But whether you actually and authentically do believe it is less choosable than it seems.”

64. “Yes, you can choose to say you believe something. But whether you actually and authentically do believe it is less choosable than it seems.”

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