Letting ourselves be loved by God is more important than loving God.
BRENNAN MANNINGChildlike surrender and trust, I believe, is the defining spirit of authentic discipleship.
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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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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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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Our identity rests in God’s relentless tenderness for us revealed in Jesus Christ.
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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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In every encounter we either give life or we drain it; there is no neutral exchange.
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Our hearts of stone become hearts of flesh when we learn where the outcast weeps.
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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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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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The temptation of the age is to look good without being good.
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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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The Christian with depth is the person who has failed and who has learned to live with it.
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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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The litmus test of our love for God is our love of neighbor.
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