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Our hearts of stone become hearts of flesh when we learn where the outcast weeps.

Brennan Manning

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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Astonish Call God Goodness Holy Moments Name Stand Stunning
We are made for Christ, and nothing less will ever satisfy us.
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God Religious Satisfaction
In Love’s service, only wounded soldiers can serve.
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Love Service Wound
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
The greatest single cause of atheism in the world today is Christians, who acknowledge Jesus with their lips and walk out the door, and deny Him by their lifestyle. That is what an unbelieving world simply finds unbelievable.
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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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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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You will trust God to the degree you know you are loved by Him.
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We even refuse to be our true self with God- and then wonder why we lack intimacy with him.
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God Himself Intimacy True
God is loving us – you and me – this moment, just as we are and not as we should be.
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God Love Moments Yourself
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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Courage Failure Faith Growth Live Ourselves Risk Willing
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
I have been seized by the power of a great affection.
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Affection Greatness Myself Power
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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Jesus comes for sinners, for those outcast and those caught up in squalid choices and failed dreams.
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Choice Dreams Failure God Sin
If asked whether I am finally letting God love me, just as I am, I would answer, ‘No, but I’m trying.
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God Love Myself Try

Our hearts of stone become hearts of flesh when we learn where the outcast weeps.

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