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.
BRENNAN MANNINGWhen absolute control and rigid obedience pose as love within the family and the local faith-community , we produce trained cowards rather than Christian persons.
BRENNAN MANNINGThe Good News of the gospel of grace cries out: We are all, equally, privileged but unentitled beggars at the door of God’s mercy!
BRENNAN MANNINGTragedy is that our attention centers on what people are not, rather than on what they are and who they might become.
BRENNAN MANNINGI am wonderfully content with a God who does not deal with me as my sins deserve.
BRENNAN MANNINGYou will trust God to the degree you know you are loved by Him.
BRENNAN MANNINGOur identity rests in God’s relentless tenderness for us revealed in Jesus Christ.
BRENNAN MANNINGWhen a man or woman is truly honest, it is virtually impossible to insult them personally.
BRENNAN MANNINGThe men and women who are truly filled with light are those who have gazed deeply into the darkness of their own imperfect existence.
BRENNAN MANNINGTo 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.
BRENNAN MANNINGGod is loving us – you and me – this moment, just as we are and not as we should be.
BRENNAN MANNINGTo lend each other a hand when we’re falling, perhaps that’s the only work that matters in the end.
BRENNAN MANNINGThe litmus test of our love for God is our love of neighbor.
BRENNAN MANNINGMy deepest awareness of myself is that I am deeply loved by Jesus Christ and I have done nothing to earn it or deserve it.
BRENNAN MANNINGRuthless trust ultimately comes down to this: faith in the person of Jesus and hope in his promise.
BRENNAN MANNINGSuffering, 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.
BRENNAN MANNINGThe 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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