To lend each other a hand when we’re falling, perhaps that’s the only work that matters in the end.
BRENNAN MANNING
God is loving us – you and me – this moment, just as we are and not as we should be.
More Brennan Manning Quotes
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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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Whatever we have done in the past, be it good or evil, great or small, is irrelevant to our stance before God today. It is only NOW that we are in the presence of God.
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The sorrow of God lies in our fear of Him, our fear of life, and our fear of ourselves. He anguishes over our self-absorption and self-sufficiency… God’s sorrow lies in our refusal to approach Him when we sinned and failed.
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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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Anyone we come in contact with, we either offer them life, or we drain them.
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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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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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Our hearts of stone become hearts of flesh when we learn where the outcast weeps.
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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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That which is denied cannot be healed.
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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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The gospel declares that no matter how dutiful or prayerful we are, we can’t save ourselves. What Jesus did was sufficient.
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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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The temptation of the age is to look good without being good.
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The story goes that a public sinner was excommunicated and forbidden entry to the church. He took his woes to God. ‘They won’t let me in, Lord, because I am a sinner.’ ‘What are you complaining about?’ said God. ‘They won’t let Me in either.
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Define yourself radically as one beloved by God. This is the true self. Every other identity is illusion.
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