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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Our identity rests in God’s relentless tenderness for us revealed in Jesus Christ.
More Brennan Manning Quotes
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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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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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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.
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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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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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In every encounter we either give life or we drain it; there is no neutral exchange.
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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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Ruthless trust ultimately comes down to this: faith in the person of Jesus and hope in his promise.
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The only kind of love that helps anyone grow is unconditional love.
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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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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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The gospel will persuade no one unless it has so convicted us that we are transformed by it.
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I have been seized by the power of a great affection.
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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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We are made for Christ, and nothing less will ever satisfy us.
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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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