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 MANNINGThe dominant characteristic of an authentic spiritual life is the gratitude that flows from trust — not only for all the gifts that I receive from God, but gratitude for all the suffering. Because in that purifying experience, suffering has often been the shortest path to intimacy with God.
More Brennan Manning Quotes
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To live by grace means to acknowledge my whole life story, the light side and the dark. In admitting my shadow side I learn who I am and what God’s grace means.
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Assured of your salvation by the unique grace of our Lord Jesus Christ” is the heartbeat of the gospel, joyful liberation from fear of the Final Outcome, a summons to self-acceptance, and freedom for a life of compassion toward others.
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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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How glorious the splendor of a human heart that trusts that it is loved!
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The gospel will persuade no one unless it has so convicted us that we are transformed by it.
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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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We are made for Christ, and nothing less will ever satisfy us.
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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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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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Real freedom is freedom from the opinions of others. Above all, freedom from your opinions about yourself.
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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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Define yourself radically as one beloved by God. This is the true self. Every other identity is illusion.
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The dominant characteristic of an authentic spiritual life is the gratitude that flows from trust — not only for all the gifts that I receive from God, but gratitude for all the suffering. Because in that purifying experience, suffering has often been the shortest path to intimacy with God.
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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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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 temptation of the age is to look good without being good.
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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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In every encounter we either give life or we drain it; there is no neutral exchange.
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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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I could more easily contain Niagara Falls in a teacup than I can comprehend the wild, uncontainable love of God.
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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 litmus test of our love for God is our love of neighbor.
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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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If in our hearts we really don’t believe that God loves us as we are, if we are still tainted by the lie that we can do something to make God love us more, we are rejecting the message of the cross.
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We should be astonished at the goodness of God, stunned that He should bother to call us by name, our mouths wide open at His love, bewildered that at this very moment we are standing on holy ground.
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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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