The dominant characteristic of an authentic spiritual life is the gratitude that flows from trust — not only for all the gifts that I receive from God, but gratitude for all the suffering. Because in that purifying experience, suffering has often been the shortest path to intimacy with God.
BRENNAN MANNINGYou will trust God to the degree you know you are loved by Him.
More Brennan Manning Quotes
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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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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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We must go out into a desert of some kind (your backyard will do) and come into a personal experience of the awesome love of God.
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Hope knows that if great trials are avoided great deeds remain undone and the possibility of growth into greatness of soul is aborted.
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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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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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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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Anyone we come in contact with, we either offer them life, or we drain them.
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The litmus test of our love for God is our love of neighbor.
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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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The way you are with others every day, regardless of their status, is the true test of faith.
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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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Our identity rests in God’s relentless tenderness for us revealed in Jesus Christ.
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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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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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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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How glorious the splendor of a human heart that trusts that it is loved!
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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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When a man or woman is truly honest, it is virtually impossible to insult them personally.
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We are made for Christ, and nothing less will ever satisfy us.
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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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I could more easily contain Niagara Falls in a teacup than I can comprehend the wild, uncontainable love of God.
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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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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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You will trust God to the degree you know you are loved by Him.
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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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