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Craving clarity, we attempt to eliminate the risk of trusting God. Fear of the unknown path stretching ahead of us destroys childlike trust in the Father’s active goodness and unrestricted love.

Brennan Manning

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Our identity rests in God’s relentless tenderness for us revealed in Jesus Christ.
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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 lend each other a hand when we’re falling, perhaps that’s the only work that matters in the end.
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In every encounter we either give life or we drain it; there is no neutral exchange.
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We are made for Christ, and nothing less will ever satisfy us.
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We even refuse to be our true self with God- and then wonder why we lack intimacy with him.
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How glorious the splendor of a human heart that trusts that it is loved!
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The only kind of love that helps anyone grow is unconditional love.
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You will trust God to the degree you know you are loved by Him.
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The temptation of the age is to look good without being good.
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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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That which is denied cannot be healed.
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