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The temptation of the age is to look good without being good.

Brennan Manning

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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Demand God Present Radical Religion Rise
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
The litmus test of our love for God is our love of neighbor.
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Friendship God Love Neighbor Ourselves Science Test
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
Childlike surrender and trust, I believe, is the defining spirit of authentic discipleship.
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Authentic Believe Childhood Discipline Spirit Surender Trust
Our identity rests in God’s relentless tenderness for us revealed in Jesus Christ.
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God Identity Ourselves Reveal Tender
A saint is not someone who is good but who experiences the goodness of God.
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Difference Experience God Goodness
How glorious the splendor of a human heart that trusts that it is loved!
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Glory Heart Human Love Trust
Hope knows that if great trials are avoided great deeds remain undone and the possibility of growth into greatness of soul is aborted.
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Avoid Greatness Growth Hope Soul
The way you are with others every day, regardless of their status, is the true test of faith.
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Day Faith Regard Status Test Way
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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Declare Prayer Save Scripture Sufficient
I am wonderfully content with a God who does not deal with me as my sins deserve.
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Content Deserve God Myself Sin Wonderful
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
Anyone we come in contact with, we either offer them life, or we drain them.
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Contact Life Touch
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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Connection Essential Experience God Love Touch Yourself
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

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