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Our identity rests in God’s relentless tenderness for us revealed in Jesus Christ.

Brennan Manning

Letting ourselves be loved by God is more important than loving God.
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God Important Love Ourselves
To be alive is to be broken; to be broken is to stand in need of grace.
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Alive Break Grace Need Religious Stand
I have been seized by the power of a great affection.
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Affection Greatness Myself Power
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
Our huffing and puffing to impress God, our scrambling for brownie points, our thrashing about trying to fix ourselves while hiding our pettiness and wallowing in guilt are nauseating to God and are a flat denial of the gospel of grace.
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God Grace Impression Scripture Try
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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Aware Deep Deserve God Love Myself
I asked for wonder, and He gave it to me.
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God Himself Miracle Myself Wonder
The gospel will persuade no one unless it has so convicted us that we are transformed by it.
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Conviction Oneself Scripture Transformation
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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Day Evil Goodness Ourselves Past Presence
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
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
Our identity rests in God’s relentless tenderness for us revealed in Jesus Christ.
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God Identity Ourselves Reveal Tender
What makes the Kingdom come is heartfelt compassion: a way of tenderness that knows no frontiers, no labels, no compartmentalizing, and no sectarian divisions.
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Compassionate Department Division Heart Tender
How glorious the splendor of a human heart that trusts that it is loved!
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Glory Heart Human Love Trust
A saint is not someone who is good but who experiences the goodness of God.
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Difference Experience God Goodness
Define yourself radically as one beloved by God. This is the true self. Every other identity is illusion.
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God Identity Illusion Oneself Radical True

Our identity rests in God’s relentless tenderness for us revealed in Jesus Christ.

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