God loves you unconditionally, as you are and not as you should be, because nobody is as they should be.
BRENNAN MANNINGWhat makes the Kingdom come is heartfelt compassion: a way of tenderness that knows no frontiers, no labels, no compartmentalizing, and no sectarian divisions.
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What makes the Kingdom come is heartfelt compassion: a way of tenderness that knows no frontiers, no labels, no compartmentalizing, and no sectarian divisions.
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How glorious the splendor of a human heart that trusts that it is loved!
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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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Childlike surrender and trust, I believe, is the defining spirit of authentic discipleship.
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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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Real freedom is freedom from the opinions of others. Above all, freedom from your opinions about yourself.
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Christianity 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.
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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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The Christian with depth is the person who has failed and who has learned to live with it.
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We must go out into a desert of some kind (your backyard will do) and come into a personal experience of the awesome 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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We even refuse to be our true self with God- and then wonder why we lack intimacy with him.
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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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We are made for Christ, and nothing less will ever satisfy us.
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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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