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.
BRENNAN MANNINGYou will trust God to the degree you know you are loved by Him.
More Brennan Manning Quotes
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I am wonderfully content with a God who does not deal with me as my sins deserve.
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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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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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The gospel will persuade no one unless it has so convicted us that we are transformed by it.
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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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Ruthless trust ultimately comes down to this: faith in the person of Jesus and hope in his promise.
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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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The Good News of the gospel of grace cries out: We are all, equally, privileged but unentitled beggars at the door of God’s mercy!
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I asked for wonder, and He gave it to me.
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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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Childlike surrender and trust, I believe, is the defining spirit of authentic discipleship.
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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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The gospel declares that no matter how dutiful or prayerful we are, we can’t save ourselves. What Jesus did was sufficient.
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If asked whether I am finally letting God love me, just as I am, I would answer, ‘No, but I’m trying.
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Jesus reveals a God who does not demand but who gives; who does not oppress but who raises up; who does not wound but who heals; who does not condemn but forgives.
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