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The gospel will persuade no one unless it has so convicted us that we are transformed by it.

Brennan Manning

In Love’s service, only wounded soldiers can serve.
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Love Service Wound
To be alive is to be broken; to be broken is to stand in need of grace.
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Alive Break Grace Need Religious Stand
When we wallow in guilt, remorse, and shame over real or imagined sins of the past, we are disdaining God’s gift of grace.
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Gift Grace Guilt Imagination Reality Shame
That which is denied cannot be healed.
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Acceptance Deny
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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Declare Prayer Save Scripture Sufficient
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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Desert Experience God Kind Love Personal
The sorrow of God lies in our fear of Him, our fear of life, and our fear of ourselves. He anguishes over our self-absorption and self-sufficiency… God’s sorrow lies in our refusal to approach Him when we sinned and failed.
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Failure Fear God Himself Life Lying Sin Sorrow
A saint is not someone who is good but who experiences the goodness of God.
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Difference Experience God Goodness
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
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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Attention Be Yourself People Tragedy
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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Day Evil Goodness Ourselves Past Presence
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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Acceptance Compassionate Heart Life Religious Scripture Yourself
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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Dare Different Enough Fire Humble Love Mistake Phone Yourself
Genuine self-acceptance is not derived from the power of positive thinking, mind games or pop psychology. IT IS AN ACT OF FAITH in the God of grace.
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Acceptance Faith God Grace Positive Power Thinking
I have been seized by the power of a great affection.
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Affection Greatness Myself Power
How glorious the splendor of a human heart that trusts that it is loved!
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Glory Heart Human Love Trust

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