Today on planet Earth, may you experience the wonder and beauty of yourself as Abba’s Child and temple of the Holy Spirit through Jesus Christ
BRENNAN MANNINGSuffering, 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.
More Brennan Manning Quotes
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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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I am wonderfully content with a God who does not deal with me as my sins deserve.
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We even refuse to be our true self with God- and then wonder why we lack intimacy with him.
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Be daring enough to be different, humble enough to make mistakes, wild enough to be burnt in the fire of love, real enough to make others see how phony you 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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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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You will trust God to the degree you know you are loved by Him.
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Anyone we come in contact with, we either offer them life, or we drain them.
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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.
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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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Our culture says that ruthless competition is the key to success. Jesus says that ruthless compassion is the purpose of our journey.
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I have been seized by the power of a great affection.
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That which is denied cannot be healed.
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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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Ruthless trust ultimately comes down to this: faith in the person of Jesus and hope in his promise.
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