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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.

Brennan Manning

Jesus comes for sinners, for those outcast and those caught up in squalid choices and failed dreams.
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Choice Dreams Failure God Sin
The sorrow of God lies in our fear of Him, our fear of life, and our fear of ourselves. He anguishes over our self-absorption and self-sufficiency… God’s sorrow lies in our refusal to approach Him when we sinned and failed.
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Failure Fear God Himself Life Lying Sin Sorrow
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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Declare Prayer Save Scripture Sufficient
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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Assumption Attitude Compassionate Freedom God Projection
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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Acceptance Amazing God Grace Spiritual Togetherness Weakness
The Good News means we can stop lying to ourselves. The sweet sound of amazing grace saves us from the necessity of self-deception. It keeps us from denying that though Christ was victorious, the battle with lust, greed, and pride still rages within us.
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Amazing Battle Goodness Grace Lust Lying Ourselves Stop Victory
Real freedom is freedom from the opinions of others. Above all, freedom from your opinions about yourself.
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Freedom Opinion Reality Yourself
You will trust God to the degree you know you are loved by Him.
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Degree God Himself Love Trust Yourself
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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Avoid Greatness Growth Hope Soul
In every encounter we either give life or we drain it; there is no neutral exchange.
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Encounter exchange Life
God is loving us – you and me – this moment, just as we are and not as we should be.
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God Love Moments Yourself
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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God Grace Impression Scripture Try
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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God Greatness Himself Mystery Secret Thinking
A saint is not someone who is good but who experiences the goodness of God.
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Difference Experience God Goodness
Letting ourselves be loved by God is more important than loving God.
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God Important Love Ourselves
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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Attention Be Yourself People Tragedy

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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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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