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.
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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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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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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Today on planet Earth, may you experience the wonder and beauty of yourself as Abba’s Child and temple of the Holy Spirit through Jesus Christ
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There is a beautiful transparency to honest disciples who never wear a false face and do not pretend to be anything but who they are.
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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 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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You will trust God to the degree you know you are loved by Him.
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Our hearts of stone become hearts of flesh when we learn where the outcast weeps.
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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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How glorious the splendor of a human heart that trusts that it is loved!
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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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A saint is not someone who is good but who experiences the goodness of God.
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The temptation of the age is to look good without being good.
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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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