Anyone we come in contact with, we either offer them life, or we drain them.
BRENNAN MANNINGRuthless trust ultimately comes down to this: faith in the person of Jesus and hope in his promise.
More Brennan Manning Quotes
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You will trust God to the degree you know you are loved by Him.
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How glorious the splendor of a human heart that trusts that it is loved!
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In Love’s service, only wounded soldiers can serve.
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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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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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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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I could more easily contain Niagara Falls in a teacup than I can comprehend the wild, uncontainable love of God.
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My deepest awareness of myself is that I am deeply loved by Jesus Christ and I have done nothing to earn it or deserve it.
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The secret of the mystery is: God is always greater. No matter how great we think Him to be, His love is always greater.
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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.
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Our hearts of stone become hearts of flesh when we learn where the outcast weeps.
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Tragedy is that our attention centers on what people are not, rather than on what they are and who they might become.
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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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I have been seized by the power of a great affection.
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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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