Anyone we come in contact with, we either offer them life, or we drain them.
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.
More Brennan Manning Quotes
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That which is denied cannot be healed.
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In every encounter we either give life or we drain it; there is no neutral exchange.
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The temptation of the age is to look good without being good.
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The story goes that a public sinner was excommunicated and forbidden entry to the church. He took his woes to God. ‘They won’t let me in, Lord, because I am a sinner.’ ‘What are you complaining about?’ said God. ‘They won’t let Me in either.
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Our identity rests in God’s relentless tenderness for us revealed in Jesus Christ.
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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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You will trust God to the degree you know you are loved by Him.
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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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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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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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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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In Love’s service, only wounded soldiers can serve.
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Be 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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To be alive is to be broken; to be broken is to stand in need of grace.
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What makes the Kingdom come is heartfelt compassion: a way of tenderness that knows no frontiers, no labels, no compartmentalizing, and no sectarian divisions.
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