We even refuse to be our true self with God- and then wonder why we lack intimacy with him.
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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.
More Brennan Manning Quotes
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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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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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God is loving us – you and me – this moment, just as we are and not as we should be.
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In every encounter we either give life or we drain it; there is no neutral exchange.
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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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When our inner child is not nurtured and nourished, our minds gradually close to new ideas, unprofitable commitments and the surprises of the Spirit.
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Jesus comes for sinners, for those outcast and those caught up in squalid choices and failed dreams.
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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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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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Our identity rests in God’s relentless tenderness for us revealed in Jesus Christ.
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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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Real freedom is freedom from the opinions of others. Above all, freedom from your opinions about yourself.
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Whatever we have done in the past, be it good or evil, great or small, is irrelevant to our stance before God today. It is only NOW that we are in the presence of God.
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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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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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Tragedy is that our attention centers on what people are not, rather than on what they are and who they might become.
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