If in our hearts we really don’t believe that God loves us as we are, if we are still tainted by the lie that we can do something to make God love us more, we are rejecting the message of the cross.
BRENNAN MANNINGCraving 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.
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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The secret of the mystery is: God is always greater. No matter how great we think Him to be, His love is always greater.
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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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Letting ourselves be loved by God is more important than loving God.
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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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God is enough. That is the root of peace. When we start seeking something besides Him, we lose it.
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I have been seized by the power of a great affection.
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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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That which is denied cannot be healed.
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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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Real freedom is freedom from the opinions of others. Above all, freedom from your opinions about yourself.
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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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Jesus comes not for the super-spiritual but for the wobbly and the weak-kneed who know they don’t have it all together, and who are not too proud to accept the handout of amazing 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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God loves you unconditionally, as you are and not as you should be, because nobody is as they should be.
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