God is enough. That is the root of peace. When we start seeking something besides Him, we lose it.
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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The way you are with others every day, regardless of their status, is the true test of faith.
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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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Tragedy is that our attention centers on what people are not, rather than on what they are and who they might become.
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Faithfulness requires the courage to risk everything on Jesus, the willingness to keep growing, and the readiness to risk failure throughout our lives.
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If asked whether I am finally letting God love me, just as I am, I would answer, ‘No, but I’m trying.
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Anyone we come in contact with, we either offer them life, or we drain them.
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When a man or woman is truly honest, it is virtually impossible to insult them personally.
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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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We even refuse to be our true self with God- and then wonder why we lack intimacy with him.
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I have been seized by the power of a great affection.
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Hope knows that if great trials are avoided great deeds remain undone and the possibility of growth into greatness of soul is aborted.
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The only kind of love that helps anyone grow is unconditional love.
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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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God loves you unconditionally, as you are and not as you should be, because nobody is as they should be.
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In Love’s service, only wounded soldiers can serve.
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