The gospel will persuade no one unless it has so convicted us that we are transformed by it.
BRENNAN MANNINGChristianity 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.
More Brennan Manning Quotes
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We have been given God in our souls and Christ in our flesh. We have the power to believe where others deny, to hope where others despair, to love where others hurt.
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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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If asked whether I am finally letting God love me, just as I am, I would answer, ‘No, but I’m trying.
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The Good News means we can stop lying to ourselves. The sweet sound of amazing grace saves us from the necessity of self-deception. It keeps us from denying that though Christ was victorious, the battle with lust, greed, and pride still rages within us.
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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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A saint is not someone who is good but who experiences the goodness of God.
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The Christian with depth is the person who has failed and who has learned to live with it.
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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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That which is denied cannot be healed.
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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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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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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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I asked for wonder, and He gave it to me.
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The temptation of the age is to look good without being good.
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When a man or woman is truly honest, it is virtually impossible to insult them personally.
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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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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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There is a beautiful transparency to honest disciples who never wear a false face and do not pretend to be anything but who they are.
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When our inner child is not nurtured and nourished, our minds gradually close to new ideas, unprofitable commitments and the surprises of the Spirit.
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Anyone we come in contact with, we either offer them life, or we drain them.
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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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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 men and women who are truly filled with light are those who have gazed deeply into the darkness of their own imperfect existence.
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Craving clarity, we attempt to eliminate the risk of trusting God. Fear of the unknown path stretching ahead of us destroys childlike trust in the Father’s active goodness and unrestricted love.
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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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The litmus test of our love for God is our love of neighbor.
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