Jesus reveals a God who does not demand but who gives; who does not oppress but who raises up; who does not wound but who heals; who does not condemn but forgives.
BRENNAN MANNINGTo live by grace means to acknowledge my whole life story, the light side and the dark. In admitting my shadow side I learn who I am and what God’s grace means.
More Brennan Manning Quotes
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Our identity rests in God’s relentless tenderness for us revealed in Jesus Christ.
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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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There is an essential connection between experiencing God, loving God, and trusting God. You will trust God only as much as you love him. And you will love him to the extent you have touched him, rather that he has touched you.
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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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The dominant characteristic of an authentic spiritual life is the gratitude that flows from trust — not only for all the gifts that I receive from God, but gratitude for all the suffering. Because in that purifying experience, suffering has often been the shortest path to intimacy with God.
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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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Real freedom is freedom from the opinions of others. Above all, freedom from your opinions about yourself.
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The men and women who are truly filled with light are those who have gazed deeply into the darkness of their own imperfect existence.
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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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The Good News of the gospel of grace cries out: We are all, equally, privileged but unentitled beggars at the door of God’s mercy!
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How glorious the splendor of a human heart that trusts that it is loved!
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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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When our inner child is not nurtured and nourished, our minds gradually close to new ideas, unprofitable commitments and the surprises of the Spirit.
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The temptation of the age is to look good without being good.
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In every encounter we either give life or we drain it; there is no neutral exchange.
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