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Whatever we have done in the past, be it good or evil, great or small, is irrelevant to our stance before God today. It is only NOW that we are in the presence of God.

Brennan Manning

The spirituality of wonder knows the world is charged with grace, that while sin and war, disease and death are terribly real, God’s loving presence and power in our midst are even more real.
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Charge Death Grace Hard Time Reality Sin Spiritual War Wonder World
When a man or woman is truly honest, it is virtually impossible to insult them personally.
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Honesty Impossible Insult Man Personal True Virtual Woman
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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Connection Essential Experience God Love Touch Yourself
The way you are with others every day, regardless of their status, is the true test of faith.
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The litmus test of our love for God is our love of neighbor.
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Friendship God Love Neighbor Ourselves Science Test
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 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 only kind of love that helps anyone grow is unconditional love.
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Growth Help Kind Love Unconditional
In every encounter we either give life or we drain it; there is no neutral exchange.
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Encounter exchange Life
A saint is not someone who is good but who experiences the goodness of God.
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Difference Experience God Goodness
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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I asked for wonder, and He gave it to me.
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God Himself Miracle Myself Wonder
Letting ourselves be loved by God is more important than loving God.
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God Important Love Ourselves
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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Our hearts of stone become hearts of flesh when we learn where the outcast weeps.
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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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God Love Moments Yourself

Whatever we have done in the past, be it good or evil, great or small, is irrelevant to our stance before God today. It is only NOW that we are in the presence of God.

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Whatever we have done in the past, be it good or evil, great or small, is irrelevant to our stance before God today. It is only NOW that we are in the presence of God.

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