Letting ourselves be loved by God is more important than loving God.
BRENNAN MANNINGBe daring enough to be different, humble enough to make mistakes, wild enough to be burnt in the fire of love, real enough to make others see how phony you are.
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We are made for Christ, and nothing less will ever satisfy us.
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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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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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Our identity rests in God’s relentless tenderness for us revealed in Jesus Christ.
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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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Craving clarity, we attempt to eliminate the risk of trusting God. Fear of the unknown path stretching ahead of us destroys childlike trust in the Father’s active goodness and unrestricted love.
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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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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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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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How glorious the splendor of a human heart that trusts that it is loved!
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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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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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To lend each other a hand when we’re falling, perhaps that’s the only work that matters in the end.
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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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Ruthless trust ultimately comes down to this: faith in the person of Jesus and hope in his promise.
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