How glorious the splendor of a human heart that trusts that it is loved!
BRENNAN MANNINGWe 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 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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I asked for wonder, and He gave it to me.
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You will trust God to the degree you know you are loved by Him.
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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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When a man or woman is truly honest, it is virtually impossible to insult them personally.
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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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That which is denied cannot be healed.
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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 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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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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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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God is enough. That is the root of peace. When we start seeking something besides Him, we lose it.
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The litmus test of our love for God is our love of neighbor.
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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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