Letting ourselves be loved by God is more important than loving God.
BRENNAN MANNINGJesus comes not for the super-spiritual but for the wobbly and the weak-kneed who know they don’t have it all together, and who are not too proud to accept the handout of amazing grace.
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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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A saint is not someone who is good but who experiences the goodness of God.
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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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The deepest desire of our hearts is for union for God. God created us for union with himself. This is the original purpose of our lives.
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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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Our hearts of stone become hearts of flesh when we learn where the outcast weeps.
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God is enough. That is the root of peace. When we start seeking something besides Him, we lose it.
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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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Jesus comes not for the super-spiritual but for the wobbly and the weak-kneed who know they don’t have it all together, and who are not too proud to accept the handout of amazing grace.
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On the last day, Jesus will look us over not for medals, diplomas, or honors, but for scars.
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To be alive is to be broken; to be broken is to stand in need of grace.
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The temptation of the age is to look good without being good.
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The sorrow of God lies in our fear of Him, our fear of life, and our fear of ourselves. He anguishes over our self-absorption and self-sufficiency… God’s sorrow lies in our refusal to approach Him when we sinned and failed.
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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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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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