I am wonderfully content with a God who does not deal with me as my sins deserve.
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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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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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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I asked for wonder, and He gave it to me.
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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 Christian with depth is the person who has failed and who has learned to live with it.
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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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Real freedom is freedom from the opinions of others. Above all, freedom from your opinions about yourself.
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Our culture says that ruthless competition is the key to success. Jesus says that ruthless compassion is the purpose of our journey.
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I have been seized by the power of a great affection.
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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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The gospel declares that no matter how dutiful or prayerful we are, we can’t save ourselves. What Jesus did was sufficient.
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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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Childlike surrender and trust, I believe, is the defining spirit of authentic discipleship.
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How glorious the splendor of a human heart that trusts that it is loved!
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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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