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!
BRENNAN MANNINGThe Good News of the gospel of grace cries out: We are all, equally, privileged but unentitled beggars at the door of God’s mercy!
More Brennan Manning Quotes
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Jesus comes for sinners, for those outcast and those caught up in squalid choices and failed dreams.
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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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When a man or woman is truly honest, it is virtually impossible to insult them personally.
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Genuine self-acceptance is not derived from the power of positive thinking, mind games or pop psychology. IT IS AN ACT OF FAITH in the God of grace.
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When we wallow in guilt, remorse, and shame over real or imagined sins of the past, we are disdaining God’s gift of grace.
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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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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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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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Be daring enough to be different, humble enough to make mistakes, wild enough to be burnt in the fire of love, real enough to make others see how phony you are.
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Today on planet Earth, may you experience the wonder and beauty of yourself as Abba’s Child and temple of the Holy Spirit through Jesus Christ
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The gospel will persuade no one unless it has so convicted us that we are transformed by it.
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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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Anyone we come in contact with, we either offer them life, or we drain them.
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Jesus comes not for the super-spiritual but for the wobbly and the weak-kneed who know they don’t have it all together, and who are not too proud to accept the handout of amazing grace.
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Our hearts of stone become hearts of flesh when we learn where the outcast weeps.
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