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.
BRENNAN MANNINGI asked for wonder, and He gave it to me.
More Brennan Manning Quotes
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The only kind of love that helps anyone grow is unconditional love.
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Define yourself radically as one beloved by God. This is the true self. Every other identity is illusion.
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Anyone we come in contact with, we either offer them life, or we drain them.
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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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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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Jesus comes for sinners, for those outcast and those caught up in squalid choices and failed dreams.
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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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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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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 could more easily contain Niagara Falls in a teacup than I can comprehend the wild, uncontainable love of God.
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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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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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Real freedom is freedom from the opinions of others. Above all, freedom from your opinions about yourself.
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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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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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Childlike surrender and trust, I believe, is the defining spirit of authentic discipleship.
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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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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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Today on planet Earth, may you experience the wonder and beauty of yourself as Abba’s Child and temple of the Holy Spirit through 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 dominant characteristic of an authentic spiritual life is the gratitude that flows from trust — not only for all the gifts that I receive from God, but gratitude for all the suffering. Because in that purifying experience, suffering has often been the shortest path to intimacy with God.
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A saint is not someone who is good but who experiences the goodness of God.
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That which is denied cannot be healed.
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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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I have been seized by the power of a great affection.
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Our hearts of stone become hearts of flesh when we learn where the outcast weeps.
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