The secret of the mystery is: God is always greater. No matter how great we think Him to be, His love is always greater.
BRENNAN MANNINGWhen we wallow in guilt, remorse, and shame over real or imagined sins of the past, we are disdaining God’s gift of grace.
More Brennan Manning Quotes
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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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Ruthless trust ultimately comes down to this: faith in the person of Jesus and hope in his promise.
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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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If in our hearts we really don’t believe that God loves us as we are, if we are still tainted by the lie that we can do something to make God love us more, we are rejecting the message of the cross.
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God loves you unconditionally, as you are and not as you should be, because nobody is as they should be.
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Hope knows that if great trials are avoided great deeds remain undone and the possibility of growth into greatness of soul is aborted.
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Childlike surrender and trust, I believe, is the defining spirit of authentic discipleship.
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When a man or woman is truly honest, it is virtually impossible to insult them personally.
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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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How glorious the splendor of a human heart that trusts that it is loved!
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In every encounter we either give life or we drain it; there is no neutral exchange.
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God is loving us – you and me – this moment, just as we are and not as we should be.
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My deepest awareness of myself is that I am deeply loved by Jesus Christ and I have done nothing to earn it or deserve it.
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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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