We even refuse to be our true self with God- and then wonder why we lack intimacy with him.
BRENNAN MANNINGAnyone we come in contact with, we either offer them life, or we drain them.
More Brennan Manning Quotes
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The temptation of the age is to look good without being good.
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I have been seized by the power of a great affection.
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There is an essential connection between experiencing God, loving God, and trusting God. You will trust God only as much as you love him. And you will love him to the extent you have touched him, rather that he has touched you.
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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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The litmus test of our love for God is our love of neighbor.
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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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The way you are with others every day, regardless of their status, is the true test of faith.
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Childlike surrender and trust, I believe, is the defining spirit of authentic discipleship.
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God is enough. That is the root of peace. When we start seeking something besides Him, we lose it.
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We are made for Christ, and nothing less will ever satisfy us.
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A saint is not someone who is good but who experiences the goodness of God.
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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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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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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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The Good News of the gospel of grace cries out: We are all, equally, privileged but unentitled beggars at the door of God’s mercy!
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