Jesus comes for sinners, for those outcast and those caught up in squalid choices and failed dreams.
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Ruthless trust ultimately comes down to this: faith in the person of Jesus and hope in his promise.
More Brennan Manning Quotes
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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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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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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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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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Letting ourselves be loved by God is more important than loving God.
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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 Good News means we can stop lying to ourselves. The sweet sound of amazing grace saves us from the necessity of self-deception. It keeps us from denying that though Christ was victorious, the battle with lust, greed, and pride still rages within us.
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A saint is not someone who is good but who experiences the goodness of God.
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I am wonderfully content with a God who does not deal with me as my sins deserve.
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How glorious the splendor of a human heart that trusts that it is loved!
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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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Childlike surrender and trust, I believe, is the defining spirit of authentic discipleship.
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Tragedy is that our attention centers on what people are not, rather than on what they are and who they might become.
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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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On the last day, Jesus will look us over not for medals, diplomas, or honors, but for scars.
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