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A saint is not someone who is good but who experiences the goodness of God.

Brennan Manning

Childlike surrender and trust, I believe, is the defining spirit of authentic discipleship.
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Authentic Believe Childhood Discipline Spirit Surender Trust
The dominant characteristic of an authentic spiritual life is the gratitude that flows from trust — not only for all the gifts that I receive from God, but gratitude for all the suffering. Because in that purifying experience, suffering has often been the shortest path to intimacy with God.
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Authentic Character Dominant Experience Flow God Gratitude Intimacy Life Purity Spiritual Trust
In Love’s service, only wounded soldiers can serve.
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Love Service Wound
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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Control Coward Family Love Obedience Person Training
Jesus comes for sinners, for those outcast and those caught up in squalid choices and failed dreams.
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Choice Dreams Failure God Sin
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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Desert Experience God Kind Love Personal
The Christian with depth is the person who has failed and who has learned to live with it.
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Deep Failure Learning Live Person
Anyone we come in contact with, we either offer them life, or we drain them.
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Contact Life Touch
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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Evil Freedom Hope Idea Ourselves Pain Reality Success Suffering
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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Acceptance Faith God Grace Positive Power Thinking
We should be astonished at the goodness of God, stunned that He should bother to call us by name, our mouths wide open at His love, bewildered that at this very moment we are standing on holy ground.
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Astonish Call God Goodness Holy Moments Name Stand Stunning
On the last day, Jesus will look us over not for medals, diplomas, or honors, but for scars.
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Day Medal Ourselves Scars Search
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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Encouragement Evil Failure Forever Grace Sorrow Suffering
Our hearts of stone become hearts of flesh when we learn where the outcast weeps.
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Cry Heart Learning Stone
We even refuse to be our true self with God- and then wonder why we lack intimacy with him.
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God Himself Intimacy True
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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Each Other End Fall Hands Hard Time Support Work

A saint is not someone who is good but who experiences the goodness of God.

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