The way you are with others every day, regardless of their status, is the true test of faith.
BRENNAN MANNINGThere 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.
More Brennan Manning Quotes
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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 Christian with depth is the person who has failed and who has learned to live with it.
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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.
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That which is denied cannot be healed.
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Anyone we come in contact with, we either offer them life, or we drain them.
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The story goes that a public sinner was excommunicated and forbidden entry to the church. He took his woes to God. ‘They won’t let me in, Lord, because I am a sinner.’ ‘What are you complaining about?’ said God. ‘They won’t let Me in either.
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I asked for wonder, and He gave it to me.
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The litmus test of our love for God is our love of neighbor.
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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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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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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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Letting ourselves be loved by God is more important than loving God.
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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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we unwittingly project onto God our own attitudes and feelings toward ourselves… But we cannot assume that He feels about us the way we feel about ourselves — unless we love ourselves compassionately, intensely, and freely.
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To be alive is to be broken; to be broken is to stand in need of grace.
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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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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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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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I have been seized by the power of a great affection.
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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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Our identity rests in God’s relentless tenderness for us revealed in Jesus Christ.
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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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Real freedom is freedom from the opinions of others. Above all, freedom from your opinions about yourself.
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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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Be daring enough to be different, humble enough to make mistakes, wild enough to be burnt in the fire of love, real enough to make others see how phony you are.
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