I could more easily contain Niagara Falls in a teacup than I can comprehend the wild, uncontainable love of God.
BRENNAN MANNINGThe way you are with others every day, regardless of their status, is the true test of faith.
More Brennan Manning Quotes
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A saint is not someone who is good but who experiences the goodness of God.
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We are made for Christ, and nothing less will ever satisfy us.
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How glorious the splendor of a human heart that trusts that it is loved!
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Faithfulness requires the courage to risk everything on Jesus, the willingness to keep growing, and the readiness to risk failure throughout our lives.
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To lend each other a hand when we’re falling, perhaps that’s the only work that matters in the end.
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I am wonderfully content with a God who does not deal with me as my sins deserve.
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God loves you unconditionally, as you are and not as you should be, because nobody is as they should be.
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Hope knows that if great trials are avoided great deeds remain undone and the possibility of growth into greatness of soul is aborted.
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The temptation of the age is to look good without being good.
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Jesus reveals a God who does not demand but who gives; who does not oppress but who raises up; who does not wound but who heals; who does not condemn but forgives.
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For me the most radical demand of Christian faith lies in summoning the courage to say yes to the present risenness of Jesus Christ.
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In Love’s service, only wounded soldiers can serve.
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The Good News of the gospel of grace cries out: We are all, equally, privileged but unentitled beggars at the door of God’s mercy!
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Our huffing and puffing to impress God, our scrambling for brownie points, our thrashing about trying to fix ourselves while hiding our pettiness and wallowing in guilt are nauseating to God and are a flat denial of the gospel of grace.
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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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