You will trust God to the degree you know you are loved by Him.
BRENNAN MANNINGMy 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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For me the most radical demand of Christian faith lies in summoning the courage to say yes to the present risenness of Jesus Christ.
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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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When absolute control and rigid obedience pose as love within the family and the local faith-community , we produce trained cowards rather than Christian persons.
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I have been seized by the power of a great affection.
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Genuine self-acceptance is not derived from the power of positive thinking, mind games or pop psychology. IT IS AN ACT OF FAITH in the God of grace.
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I could more easily contain Niagara Falls in a teacup than I can comprehend the wild, uncontainable love of God.
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Ruthless trust ultimately comes down to this: faith in the person of Jesus and hope in his promise.
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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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Our 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.
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Assured of your salvation by the unique grace of our Lord Jesus Christ” is the heartbeat of the gospel, joyful liberation from fear of the Final Outcome, a summons to self-acceptance, and freedom for a life of compassion toward others.
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The only kind of love that helps anyone grow is unconditional love.
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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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Hope knows that if great trials are avoided great deeds remain undone and the possibility of growth into greatness of soul is aborted.
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God loves you unconditionally, as you are and not as you should be, because nobody is as they should be.
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Anyone we come in contact with, we either offer them life, or we drain them.
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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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Childlike surrender and trust, I believe, is the defining spirit of authentic discipleship.
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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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Letting ourselves be loved by God is more important than loving God.
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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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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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The gospel will persuade no one unless it has so convicted us that we are transformed by it.
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On the last day, Jesus will look us over not for medals, diplomas, or honors, but for scars.
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When a man or woman is truly honest, it is virtually impossible to insult them personally.
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To lend each other a hand when we’re falling, perhaps that’s the only work that matters in the end.
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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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