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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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.
More Brennan Manning Quotes
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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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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 gospel will persuade no one unless it has so convicted us that we are transformed by it.
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In Love’s service, only wounded soldiers can serve.
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That which is denied cannot be healed.
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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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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 sorrow of God lies in our fear of Him, our fear of life, and our fear of ourselves. He anguishes over our self-absorption and self-sufficiency… God’s sorrow lies in our refusal to approach Him when we sinned and failed.
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The litmus test of our love for God is our love of neighbor.
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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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Our hearts of stone become hearts of flesh when we learn where the outcast weeps.
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The temptation of the age is to look good without being good.
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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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We even refuse to be our true self with God- and then wonder why we lack intimacy with him.
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A saint is not someone who is good but who experiences the goodness of God.
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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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