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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.

Brennan Manning

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
The only kind of love that helps anyone grow is unconditional love.
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Growth Help Kind Love Unconditional
On the last day, Jesus will look us over not for medals, diplomas, or honors, but for scars.
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Day Medal Ourselves Scars Search
How glorious the splendor of a human heart that trusts that it is loved!
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Glory Heart Human Love Trust
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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Believe Heart Love Lying Message Ourselves Rejection
When absolute control and rigid obedience pose as love within the family and the local faith-community , we produce trained cowards rather than Christian persons.
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Control Coward Family Love Obedience Person Training
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
Suffering, failure, loneliness, sorrow, discouragement, and death will be part of your journey, but the Kingdom of God will conquer all these horrors. No evil can resist grace forever.
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Encouragement Evil Failure Forever Grace Sorrow Suffering
Real freedom is freedom from the opinions of others. Above all, freedom from your opinions about yourself.
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Freedom Opinion Reality Yourself
I have been seized by the power of a great affection.
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Affection Greatness Myself Power
The Christian with depth is the person who has failed and who has learned to live with it.
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Deep Failure Learning Live Person
For me the most radical demand of Christian faith lies in summoning the courage to say yes to the present risenness of Jesus Christ.
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Demand God Present Radical Religion Rise
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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Complaint Funny God Myself Public Sin Story
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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God Goodness Grace Mercy Scripture
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
Jesus comes for sinners, for those outcast and those caught up in squalid choices and failed dreams.
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Choice Dreams Failure God Sin

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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