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We must go out into a desert of some kind (your backyard will do) and come into a personal experience of the awesome love of God.

Brennan Manning

Our hearts of stone become hearts of flesh when we learn where the outcast weeps.
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Cry Heart Learning Stone
Ruthless trust ultimately comes down to this: faith in the person of Jesus and hope in his promise.
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Faith Person Promise Ultimate
When our inner child is not nurtured and nourished, our minds gradually close to new ideas, unprofitable commitments and the surprises of the Spirit.
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Children Commitment Gradual Mindset Nourish Nurture Spirit
We must go out into a desert of some kind (your backyard will do) and come into a personal experience of the awesome love of God.
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Desert Experience God Kind Love Personal
We should be astonished at the goodness of God, stunned that He should bother to call us by name, our mouths wide open at His love, bewildered that at this very moment we are standing on holy ground.
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Astonish Call God Goodness Holy Moments Name Stand Stunning
Our identity rests in God’s relentless tenderness for us revealed in Jesus Christ.
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God Identity Ourselves Reveal Tender
When a man or woman is truly honest, it is virtually impossible to insult them personally.
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Honesty Impossible Insult Man Personal True Virtual Woman
What makes the Kingdom come is heartfelt compassion: a way of tenderness that knows no frontiers, no labels, no compartmentalizing, and no sectarian divisions.
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Compassionate Department Division Heart Tender
The greatest single cause of atheism in the world today is Christians, who acknowledge Jesus with their lips and walk out the door, and deny Him by their lifestyle. That is what an unbelieving world simply finds unbelievable.
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acknowledgment Believe Day Greatness Himself Life Simplicity Style World
God is loving us – you and me – this moment, just as we are and not as we should be.
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God Love Moments Yourself
That which is denied cannot be healed.
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Acceptance Deny
In Love’s service, only wounded soldiers can serve.
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Love Service Wound
To be alive is to be broken; to be broken is to stand in need of grace.
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Alive Break Grace Need Religious Stand
The dominant characteristic of an authentic spiritual life is the gratitude that flows from trust — not only for all the gifts that I receive from God, but gratitude for all the suffering. Because in that purifying experience, suffering has often been the shortest path to intimacy with God.
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Authentic Character Dominant Experience Flow God Gratitude Intimacy Life Purity Spiritual Trust
There is an essential connection between experiencing God, loving God, and trusting God. You will trust God only as much as you love him. And you will love him to the extent you have touched him, rather that he has touched you.
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Connection Essential Experience God Love Touch Yourself
You will trust God to the degree you know you are loved by Him.
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Degree God Himself Love Trust Yourself

We must go out into a desert of some kind (your backyard will do) and come into a personal experience of the awesome love of God.

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