The only kind of love that helps anyone grow is unconditional love.
BRENNAN MANNINGThe way you are with others every day, regardless of their status, is the true test of faith.
More Brennan Manning Quotes
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We are made for Christ, and nothing less will ever satisfy us.
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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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To live by grace means to acknowledge my whole life story, the light side and the dark. In admitting my shadow side I learn who I am and what God’s grace means.
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The temptation of the age is to look good without being good.
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I have been seized by the power of a great affection.
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In Love’s service, only wounded soldiers can serve.
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To lend each other a hand when we’re falling, perhaps that’s the only work that matters in the end.
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How glorious the splendor of a human heart that trusts that it is loved!
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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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Our hearts of stone become hearts of flesh when we learn where the outcast weeps.
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Jesus reveals a God who does not demand but who gives; who does not oppress but who raises up; who does not wound but who heals; who does not condemn but forgives.
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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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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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Jesus comes not for the super-spiritual but for the wobbly and the weak-kneed who know they don’t have it all together, and who are not too proud to accept the handout of amazing grace.
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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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