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Suffering, 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.

Brennan Manning

For me the most radical demand of Christian faith lies in summoning the courage to say yes to the present risenness of Jesus Christ.
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Demand God Present Radical Religion Rise
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
God loves you unconditionally, as you are and not as you should be, because nobody is as they should be.
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Be Yourself God Love Original
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
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Children Earth Experience God Planet Yourself
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
When absolute control and rigid obedience pose as love within the family and the local faith-community , we produce trained cowards rather than Christian persons.
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Control Coward Family Love Obedience Person Training
You will trust God to the degree you know you are loved by Him.
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Degree God Himself Love Trust Yourself
Genuine self-acceptance is not derived from the power of positive thinking, mind games or pop psychology. IT IS AN ACT OF FAITH in the God of grace.
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Acceptance Faith God Grace Positive Power Thinking
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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Dare Different Enough Fire Humble Love Mistake Phone Yourself
Craving clarity, we attempt to eliminate the risk of trusting God. Fear of the unknown path stretching ahead of us destroys childlike trust in the Father’s active goodness and unrestricted love.
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Active Clarity Crave Destroy Elimination Father Restriction Risk
That which is denied cannot be healed.
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Acceptance Deny
The way you are with others every day, regardless of their status, is the true test of faith.
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Day Faith Regard Status Test Way
I could more easily contain Niagara Falls in a teacup than I can comprehend the wild, uncontainable love of God.
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Easy God Love Myself Wild
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
My deepest awareness of myself is that I am deeply loved by Jesus Christ and I have done nothing to earn it or deserve it.
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Aware Deep Deserve God Love Myself

Suffering, 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.

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Suffering, 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.

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