Letting ourselves be loved by God is more important than loving God.
BRENNAN MANNINGGod loves you unconditionally, as you are and not as you should be, because nobody is as they should be.
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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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The story goes that a public sinner was excommunicated and forbidden entry to the church. He took his woes to God. ‘They won’t let me in, Lord, because I am a sinner.’ ‘What are you complaining about?’ said God. ‘They won’t let Me in either.
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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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When a man or woman is truly honest, it is virtually impossible to insult them personally.
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In Love’s service, only wounded soldiers can serve.
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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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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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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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A saint is not someone who is good but who experiences the goodness of God.
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God is enough. That is the root of peace. When we start seeking something besides Him, we lose it.
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We are made for Christ, and nothing less will ever satisfy us.
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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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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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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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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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Childlike surrender and trust, I believe, is the defining spirit of authentic discipleship.
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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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Ruthless trust ultimately comes down to this: faith in the person of Jesus and hope in his promise.
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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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Assured of your salvation by the unique grace of our Lord Jesus Christ” is the heartbeat of the gospel, joyful liberation from fear of the Final Outcome, a summons to self-acceptance, and freedom for a life of compassion toward others.
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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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Our identity rests in God’s relentless tenderness for us revealed in Jesus Christ.
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God is loving us – you and me – this moment, just as we are and not as we should be.
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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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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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Jesus comes for sinners, for those outcast and those caught up in squalid choices and failed dreams.
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