Ragamuffins Quotes & Sayings

I get up, get coffee, and go into my home office. I check email and Twitter before I start work, but I have to try not to get too distracted. — Julie Kagawa

Alert to the manipulations and machinations of Pharisaical self-righteousness, ragamuffins refuse to surrender control of their lives to rules and regulations. They see that the stale religiosity of legalists, trapped in the fatal narcissism of spiritual perfectionism, obscures the face of the God of Jesus. — Brennan Manning

The ancients say that one note of a song is twenty times more powerful than a single word, and that only in song can truth be clearly perceived, for though words can harbor lies, music cannot abide them. — Nicole Evelina

Everything was God, holy; as God is total, so the driftwood branch was holy. This must be the stuff religion is made of. — George Leonard

Fear is a huge thing for older people. — James Hillman

Jesus hung out with ragamuffins, — Brennan Manning

The North American Church is at a critical juncture. The gospel of grace is being confused and compromised by silence, seduction, and outright subversion. The vitality of the faith is being jeopardized. The lying slogans of the fixers who carry religion like a sword of judgment pile up with impunity. Let ragamuffins everywhere gather as a confessing Church to cry out in protest. Revoke the licenses of religious leaders who falsify the idea of God. Sentence them to three years in solitude with the Bible as their only companion. — Brennan Manning

Hallucinogens then do the same job as religion - they provide proof of unity, which is still the only known cure for fear of death. — Steven Kotler

She was shocked when she followed her aunt and cousin down into the city proper. The streets were crawling with people, all hurrying to and fro, mindless of one another. They brushed by with barely even a glance, stepping down into the busy roads between horse drawn buses and draymen's carts with such confidence, seemingly oblivious that they could be run down at any moment. Children dodged in and out amongst them, ragamuffins all, some barefoot. — Lillian White

If you have to hang a man you could have put on a better trail, you aren't entitled to own a rope. — James Hickey

Whenever we pick up the Bible, read it, put it down, and say, "That's just what I thought," we are probably in trouble. — Ellen F. Davis

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. — Brennan Manning

There is only one thing that can form a bond between men, and that is gratitude ... we cannot give someone else greater power over us than we have ourselves. — Charles De Secondat

For Ragamuffins, God's name is Mercy. We see our darkness as a prized possession because it drives us into the heart of God. Without mercy our darkness would plunge us into despair - for some, self-destruction. Time alone with God reveals the unfathomable depths of the poverty of the spirit. We are so poor that even our poverty is not our own: It belongs to the mysterium tremendum of a loving God. — Brennan Manning

With the history of us, a book wouldn't necessarily be the best thing. — Keisha Buchanan

The confessing church of American Ragamuffins needs to join Magdalene and Peter in witnessing that Christianity is not primarily a moral code but a grace-laden mystery; it is not essentially a philosophy of love but a love affair; it is not keeping rules with clenched fists but receiving a gift with open hands. — Brennan Manning