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.
BRENNAN MANNINGFor me the most radical demand of Christian faith lies in summoning the courage to say yes to the present risenness of Jesus Christ.
More Brennan Manning Quotes
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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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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 dominant characteristic of an authentic spiritual life is the gratitude that flows from trust — not only for all the gifts that I receive from God, but gratitude for all the suffering. Because in that purifying experience, suffering has often been the shortest path to intimacy with God.
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I asked for wonder, and He gave it to me.
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How glorious the splendor of a human heart that trusts that it is loved!
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There is an essential connection between experiencing God, loving God, and trusting God. You will trust God only as much as you love him. And you will love him to the extent you have touched him, rather that he has touched you.
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If asked whether I am finally letting God love me, just as I am, I would answer, ‘No, but I’m trying.
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Jesus reveals a God who does not demand but who gives; who does not oppress but who raises up; who does not wound but who heals; who does not condemn but forgives.
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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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We even refuse to be our true self with God- and then wonder why we lack intimacy with him.
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Letting ourselves be loved by God is more important than loving God.
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To live by grace means to acknowledge my whole life story, the light side and the dark. In admitting my shadow side I learn who I am and what God’s grace means.
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That which is denied cannot be healed.
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God is loving us – you and me – this moment, just as we are and not as we should be.
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