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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.

Brennan Manning

Jesus reveals a God who does not demand but who gives; who does not oppress but who raises up; who does not wound but who heals; who does not condemn but forgives.
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Demand Forgiveness Generosity God Healing Oppression Reveal Wound
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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Believe Body Despair God Hurt Love Presence Soul
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
Anyone we come in contact with, we either offer them life, or we drain them.
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Contact Life Touch
We even refuse to be our true self with God- and then wonder why we lack intimacy with him.
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God Himself Intimacy True
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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Amazing Battle Goodness Grace Lust Lying Ourselves Stop Victory
The gospel will persuade no one unless it has so convicted us that we are transformed by it.
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Conviction Oneself Scripture Transformation
A saint is not someone who is good but who experiences the goodness of God.
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Difference Experience God Goodness
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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God Greatness Himself Mystery Secret Thinking
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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Complaint Funny God Myself Public Sin Story
When a man or woman is truly honest, it is virtually impossible to insult them personally.
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Honesty Impossible Insult Man Personal True Virtual Woman
For me the most radical demand of Christian faith lies in summoning the courage to say yes to the present risenness of Jesus Christ.
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Demand God Present Radical Religion Rise
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
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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Dare Different Enough Fire Humble Love Mistake Phone Yourself
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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Declare Prayer Save Scripture Sufficient
How glorious the splendor of a human heart that trusts that it is loved!
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Glory Heart Human Love Trust

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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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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