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The only kind of love that helps anyone grow is unconditional love.

Brennan Manning

To live by grace means to acknowledge my whole life story, the light side and the dark. In admitting my shadow side I learn who I am and what God’s grace means.
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Acknowledgement God Grace Learning Live Meaning Myself Shadow
I am wonderfully content with a God who does not deal with me as my sins deserve.
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Content Deserve God Myself Sin Wonderful
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
In every encounter we either give life or we drain it; there is no neutral exchange.
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Encounter exchange Life
The only kind of love that helps anyone grow is unconditional love.
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Growth Help Kind Love Unconditional
That which is denied cannot be healed.
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Acceptance Deny
Christianity doesn’t deny the reality of suffering and evil Our hope is not based on the idea that we are going to be free of pain and suffering. Rather, it is based on the conviction that we will triumph over suffering.
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Evil Freedom Hope Idea Ourselves Pain Reality Success Suffering
The spirituality of wonder knows the world is charged with grace, that while sin and war, disease and death are terribly real, God’s loving presence and power in our midst are even more real.
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Charge Death Grace Hard Time Reality Sin Spiritual War Wonder World
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
When absolute control and rigid obedience pose as love within the family and the local faith-community , we produce trained cowards rather than Christian persons.
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Control Coward Family Love Obedience Person Training
Letting ourselves be loved by God is more important than loving God.
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God Important Love Ourselves
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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God Grace Impression Scripture Try
I have been seized by the power of a great affection.
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Affection Greatness Myself Power
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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God Goodness Grace Mercy Scripture
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
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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Courage Failure Faith Growth Live Ourselves Risk Willing

The only kind of love that helps anyone grow is unconditional love.

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