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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.

Brennan Manning

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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Courage Failure Faith Growth Live Ourselves Risk Willing
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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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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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
Childlike surrender and trust, I believe, is the defining spirit of authentic discipleship.
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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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Jesus reveals a God who does not demand but who gives; who does not oppress but who raises up; who does not wound but who heals; who does not condemn but forgives.
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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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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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God Goodness Grace Mercy Scripture
Our hearts of stone become hearts of flesh when we learn where the outcast weeps.
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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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I am wonderfully content with a God who does not deal with me as my sins deserve.
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How glorious the splendor of a human heart that trusts that it is loved!
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Glory Heart Human Love Trust
Letting ourselves be loved by God is more important than loving God.
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God Important Love Ourselves
Real freedom is freedom from the opinions of others. Above all, freedom from your opinions about yourself.
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I could more easily contain Niagara Falls in a teacup than I can comprehend the wild, uncontainable love of God.
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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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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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