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The men and women who are truly filled with light are those who have gazed deeply into the darkness of their own imperfect existence.

Brennan Manning

Letting ourselves be loved by God is more important than loving God.
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God Important Love Ourselves
The deepest desire of our hearts is for union for God. God created us for union with himself. This is the original purpose of our lives.
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Creation Desire God Heart Live Original Ourselves Purpose
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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Believe Heart Love Lying Message Ourselves Rejection
The men and women who are truly filled with light are those who have gazed deeply into the darkness of their own imperfect existence.
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Darkness Existence Imperfection Light Man True Woman
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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Compassionate Department Division Heart Tender
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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acknowledgment Believe Day Greatness Himself Life Simplicity Style World
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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Control Coward Family Love Obedience Person Training
Real freedom is freedom from the opinions of others. Above all, freedom from your opinions about yourself.
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Freedom Opinion Reality Yourself
The litmus test of our love for God is our love of neighbor.
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Friendship God Love Neighbor Ourselves Science Test
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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Aware Deep Deserve God Love Myself
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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Active Clarity Crave Destroy Elimination Father Restriction Risk
Anyone we come in contact with, we either offer them life, or we drain them.
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Contact Life Touch
A saint is not someone who is good but who experiences the goodness of God.
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Difference Experience God Goodness
Our hearts of stone become hearts of flesh when we learn where the outcast weeps.
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Cry Heart Learning Stone
The sorrow of God lies in our fear of Him, our fear of life, and our fear of ourselves. He anguishes over our self-absorption and self-sufficiency… God’s sorrow lies in our refusal to approach Him when we sinned and failed.
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Failure Fear God Himself Life Lying Sin Sorrow
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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God Greatness Himself Mystery Secret Thinking

The men and women who are truly filled with light are those who have gazed deeply into the darkness of their own imperfect existence.

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