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.
BRENNAN MANNINGThe temptation of the age is to look good without being good.
More Brennan Manning Quotes
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We are made for Christ, and nothing less will ever satisfy us.
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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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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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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 Christian with depth is the person who has failed and who has learned to live with it.
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Our identity rests in God’s relentless tenderness for us revealed in Jesus Christ.
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The only kind of love that helps anyone grow is unconditional love.
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we unwittingly project onto God our own attitudes and feelings toward ourselves… But we cannot assume that He feels about us the way we feel about ourselves — unless we love ourselves compassionately, intensely, and freely.
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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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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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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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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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I am wonderfully content with a God who does not deal with me as my sins deserve.
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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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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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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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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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That which is denied cannot be healed.
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Real freedom is freedom from the opinions of others. Above all, freedom from your opinions about yourself.
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Childlike surrender and trust, I believe, is the defining spirit of authentic discipleship.
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We have been given God in our souls and Christ in our flesh. We have the power to believe where others deny, to hope where others despair, to love where others hurt.
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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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The gospel declares that no matter how dutiful or prayerful we are, we can’t save ourselves. What Jesus did was sufficient.
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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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On the last day, Jesus will look us over not for medals, diplomas, or honors, but for scars.
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