Our identity rests in God’s relentless tenderness for us revealed in Jesus Christ.
BRENNAN MANNINGOur huffing and puffing to impress God, our scrambling for brownie points, our thrashing about trying to fix ourselves while hiding our pettiness and wallowing in guilt are nauseating to God and are a flat denial of the gospel of grace.
More Brennan Manning Quotes
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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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In every encounter we either give life or we drain it; there is no neutral exchange.
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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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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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In Love’s service, only wounded soldiers can serve.
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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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The gospel will persuade no one unless it has so convicted us that we are transformed by it.
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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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If in our hearts we really don’t believe that God loves us as we are, if we are still tainted by the lie that we can do something to make God love us more, we are rejecting the message of the cross.
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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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That which is denied cannot be healed.
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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 am wonderfully content with a God who does not deal with me as my sins deserve.
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To be alive is to be broken; to be broken is to stand in need of grace.
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Letting ourselves be loved by God is more important than loving God.
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