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 ye — Brennan Manning, The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out
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 ye — Brennan Manning, The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out
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 ye — Brennan Manning, The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out
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 ye — Brennan Manning, The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out
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 ye — Brennan Manning, The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out
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 ye — Brennan Manning, The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out
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 ye — Brennan Manning, The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out
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 ye — Brennan Manning, The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out
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 ye — Brennan Manning, The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out
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 ye — Brennan Manning, The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out
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 ye — Brennan Manning, The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out
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 ye — Brennan Manning, The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out
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 ye — Brennan Manning, The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out
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 ye — Brennan Manning, The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out
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 ye — Brennan Manning, The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out
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 ye — Brennan Manning, The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out
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 ye — Brennan Manning, The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out
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 ye — Brennan Manning, The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out
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 ye — Brennan Manning, The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out
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 ye — Brennan Manning, The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out
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 ye — Brennan Manning, The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out
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 ye — Brennan Manning, The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out
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 ye — Brennan Manning, The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out
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 ye — Brennan Manning, The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out
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 ye — Brennan Manning, The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out
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 ye — Brennan Manning, The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out
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 ye — Brennan Manning, The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out
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 ye — Brennan Manning, The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out
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 ye — Brennan Manning, The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out
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 ye — Brennan Manning, The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out
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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.

— Brennan Manning, The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out
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