I could more easily contain Niagara Falls in a teacup than I can comprehend the wild, uncontainable love of God.
BRENNAN MANNINGI am wonderfully content with a God who does not deal with me as my sins deserve.
More Brennan Manning Quotes
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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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Be daring enough to be different, humble enough to make mistakes, wild enough to be burnt in the fire of love, real enough to make others see how phony you are.
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The way you are with others every day, regardless of their status, is the true test of faith.
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Real freedom is freedom from the opinions of others. Above all, freedom from your opinions about yourself.
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Suffering, failure, loneliness, sorrow, discouragement, and death will be part of your journey, but the Kingdom of God will conquer all these horrors. No evil can resist grace forever.
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When our inner child is not nurtured and nourished, our minds gradually close to new ideas, unprofitable commitments and the surprises of the Spirit.
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There is a beautiful transparency to honest disciples who never wear a false face and do not pretend to be anything but who they are.
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we unwittingly project onto God our own attitudes and feelings toward ourselves… But we cannot assume that He feels about us the way we feel about ourselves — unless we love ourselves compassionately, intensely, and freely.
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The story goes that a public sinner was excommunicated and forbidden entry to the church. He took his woes to God. ‘They won’t let me in, Lord, because I am a sinner.’ ‘What are you complaining about?’ said God. ‘They won’t let Me in either.
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Our identity rests in God’s relentless tenderness for us revealed in Jesus Christ.
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The men and women who are truly filled with light are those who have gazed deeply into the darkness of their own imperfect existence.
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The secret of the mystery is: God is always greater. No matter how great we think Him to be, His love is always greater.
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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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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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I have been seized by the power of a great affection.
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