To lend each other a hand when we’re falling, perhaps that’s the only work that matters in the end.
BRENNAN MANNINGThe only kind of love that helps anyone grow is unconditional love.
More Brennan Manning Quotes
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Our hearts of stone become hearts of flesh when we learn where the outcast weeps.
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The litmus test of our love for God is our love of neighbor.
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We are made for Christ, and nothing less will ever satisfy us.
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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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A saint is not someone who is good but who experiences the goodness of God.
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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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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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There is an essential connection between experiencing God, loving God, and trusting God. You will trust God only as much as you love him. And you will love him to the extent you have touched him, rather that he has touched you.
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Craving clarity, we attempt to eliminate the risk of trusting God. Fear of the unknown path stretching ahead of us destroys childlike trust in the Father’s active goodness and unrestricted love.
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That which is denied cannot be healed.
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I have been seized by the power of a great affection.
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The temptation of the age is to look good without being good.
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When a man or woman is truly honest, it is virtually impossible to insult them personally.
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When absolute control and rigid obedience pose as love within the family and the local faith-community , we produce trained cowards rather than Christian persons.
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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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