To be alive is to be broken; to be broken is to stand in need of grace.
BRENNAN MANNINGOur 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.
More Brennan Manning Quotes
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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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We must go out into a desert of some kind (your backyard will do) and come into a personal experience of the awesome love of God.
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The Christian with depth is the person who has failed and who has learned to live with it.
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Letting ourselves be loved by God is more important than loving God.
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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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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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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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When our inner child is not nurtured and nourished, our minds gradually close to new ideas, unprofitable commitments and the surprises of the Spirit.
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That which is denied cannot be healed.
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We have been given God in our souls and Christ in our flesh. We have the power to believe where others deny, to hope where others despair, to love where others hurt.
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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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The temptation of the age is to look good without being good.
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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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The secret of the mystery is: God is always greater. No matter how great we think Him to be, His love is always greater.
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I asked for wonder, and He gave it to me.
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