Letting ourselves be loved by God is more important than loving God.
BRENNAN MANNINGOur identity rests in God’s relentless tenderness for us revealed in Jesus Christ.
More Brennan Manning Quotes
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To be alive is to be broken; to be broken is to stand in need of grace.
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I have been seized by the power of a great affection.
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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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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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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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I asked for wonder, and He gave it to me.
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The gospel will persuade no one unless it has so convicted us that we are transformed by it.
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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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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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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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Our identity rests in God’s relentless tenderness for us revealed in Jesus Christ.
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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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How glorious the splendor of a human heart that trusts that it is loved!
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A saint is not someone who is good but who experiences the goodness 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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