Craving clarity, we attempt to eliminate the risk of trusting God. Fear of the unknown path stretching ahead of us destroys childlike trust in the Father’s active goodness and unrestricted love.
BRENNAN MANNINGWhen absolute control and rigid obedience pose as love within the family and the local faith-community , we produce trained cowards rather than Christian persons.
More Brennan Manning Quotes
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That which is denied cannot be healed.
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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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The temptation of the age is to look good without being good.
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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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The only kind of love that helps anyone grow is unconditional love.
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The Good News means we can stop lying to ourselves. The sweet sound of amazing grace saves us from the necessity of self-deception. It keeps us from denying that though Christ was victorious, the battle with lust, greed, and pride still rages within us.
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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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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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The gospel will persuade no one unless it has so convicted us that we are transformed by 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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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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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 secret of the mystery is: God is always greater. No matter how great we think Him to be, His love is always greater.
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Define yourself radically as one beloved by God. This is the true self. Every other identity is illusion.
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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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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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Our hearts of stone become hearts of flesh when we learn where the outcast weeps.
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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.
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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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The Christian with depth is the person who has failed and who has learned to live with it.
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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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Today on planet Earth, may you experience the wonder and beauty of yourself as Abba’s Child and temple of the Holy Spirit through Jesus Christ
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Letting ourselves be loved by God is more important than loving God.
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The litmus test of our love for God is our love of neighbor.
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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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Our identity rests in God’s relentless tenderness for us revealed in Jesus Christ.
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