Anyone we come in contact with, we either offer them life, or we drain them.
BRENNAN MANNINGThe 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.
More Brennan Manning Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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To be alive is to be broken; to be broken is to stand in need of grace.
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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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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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Jesus comes for sinners, for those outcast and those caught up in squalid choices and failed dreams.
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