In Love’s service, only wounded soldiers can serve.
BRENNAN MANNINGBe 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.
More Brennan Manning Quotes
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Anyone we come in contact with, we either offer them life, or we drain them.
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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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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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We even refuse to be our true self with God- and then wonder why we lack intimacy with him.
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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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In every encounter we either give life or we drain it; there is no neutral exchange.
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Suffering, failure, loneliness, sorrow, discouragement, and death will be part of your journey, but the Kingdom of God will conquer all these horrors. No evil can resist grace forever.
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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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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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How glorious the splendor of a human heart that trusts that it is loved!
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That which is denied cannot be healed.
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A saint is not someone who is good but who experiences the goodness of God.
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I have been seized by the power of a great affection.
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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 deepest desire of our hearts is for union for God. God created us for union with himself. This is the original purpose of our lives.
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