The way you are with others every day, regardless of their status, is the true test of faith.
BRENNAN MANNINGA saint is not someone who is good but who experiences the goodness of God.
More Brennan Manning Quotes
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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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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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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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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.
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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 deepest desire of our hearts is for union for God. God created us for union with himself. This is the original purpose of our lives.
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The only kind of love that helps anyone grow is unconditional love.
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The sorrow of God lies in our fear of Him, our fear of life, and our fear of ourselves. He anguishes over our self-absorption and self-sufficiency… God’s sorrow lies in our refusal to approach Him when we sinned and failed.
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When a man or woman is truly honest, it is virtually impossible to insult them personally.
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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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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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Faithfulness requires the courage to risk everything on Jesus, the willingness to keep growing, and the readiness to risk failure throughout our lives.
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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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Define yourself radically as one beloved by God. This is the true self. Every other identity is illusion.
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The litmus test of our love for God is our love of neighbor.
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Childlike surrender and trust, I believe, is the defining spirit of authentic discipleship.
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The temptation of the age is to look good without being good.
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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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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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We even refuse to be our true self with God- and then wonder why we lack intimacy with him.
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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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Letting ourselves be loved by God is more important than loving God.
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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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The spirituality of wonder knows the world is charged with grace, that while sin and war, disease and death are terribly real, God’s loving presence and power in our midst are even more real.
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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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