Assured of your salvation by the unique grace of our Lord Jesus Christ” is the heartbeat of the gospel, joyful liberation from fear of the Final Outcome, a summons to self-acceptance, and freedom for a life of compassion toward others.
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More Brennan Manning Quotes
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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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We should be astonished at the goodness of God, stunned that He should bother to call us by name, our mouths wide open at His love, bewildered that at this very moment we are standing on holy ground.
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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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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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God loves you unconditionally, as you are and not as you should be, because nobody is as they should be.
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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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That which is denied cannot be healed.
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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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The only kind of love that helps anyone grow is unconditional love.
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We are made for Christ, and nothing less will ever satisfy us.
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God is enough. That is the root of peace. When we start seeking something besides Him, we lose it.
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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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God is loving us – you and me – this moment, just as we are and not as we should be.
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In Love’s service, only wounded soldiers can serve.
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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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When a man or woman is truly honest, it is virtually impossible to insult them personally.
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A saint is not someone who is good but who experiences the goodness of God.
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Our identity rests in God’s relentless tenderness for us revealed in Jesus Christ.
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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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On the last day, Jesus will look us over not for medals, diplomas, or honors, but for scars.
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There is a beautiful transparency to honest disciples who never wear a false face and do not pretend to be anything but who they are.
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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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For me the most radical demand of Christian faith lies in summoning the courage to say yes to the present risenness of Jesus Christ.
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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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Jesus comes for sinners, for those outcast and those caught up in squalid choices and failed dreams.
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I have been seized by the power of a great affection.
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