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For me the most radical demand of Christian faith lies in summoning the courage to say yes to the present risenness of Jesus Christ.

Brennan Manning

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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Authentic Character Dominant Experience Flow God Gratitude Intimacy Life Purity Spiritual Trust
Jesus comes not for the super-spiritual but for the wobbly and the weak-kneed who know they don’t have it all together, and who are not too proud to accept the handout of amazing grace.
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Acceptance Amazing God Grace Spiritual Togetherness Weakness
When a man or woman is truly honest, it is virtually impossible to insult them personally.
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Honesty Impossible Insult Man Personal True Virtual Woman
To lend each other a hand when we’re falling, perhaps that’s the only work that matters in the end.
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Each Other End Fall Hands Hard Time Support Work
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
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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Children Earth Experience God Planet Yourself
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
God is enough. That is the root of peace. When we start seeking something besides Him, we lose it.
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Enough God Himself Lose Peace Seek Start
We 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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Believe Body Despair God Hurt Love Presence Soul
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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God Love Myself Try
We even refuse to be our true self with God- and then wonder why we lack intimacy with him.
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God Himself Intimacy True
Anyone we come in contact with, we either offer them life, or we drain them.
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Contact Life Touch
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 Good News means we can stop lying to ourselves. The sweet sound of amazing grace saves us from the necessity of self-deception. It keeps us from denying that though Christ was victorious, the battle with lust, greed, and pride still rages within us.
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Amazing Battle Goodness Grace Lust Lying Ourselves Stop Victory
We are made for Christ, and nothing less will ever satisfy us.
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God Religious Satisfaction
Our huffing and puffing to impress God, our scrambling for brownie points, our thrashing about trying to fix ourselves while hiding our pettiness and wallowing in guilt are nauseating to God and are a flat denial of the gospel of grace.
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God Grace Impression Scripture Try
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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Acknowledgement God Grace Learning Live Meaning Myself Shadow
Ruthless trust ultimately comes down to this: faith in the person of Jesus and hope in his promise.
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Faith Person Promise Ultimate
I asked for wonder, and He gave it to me.
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God Himself Miracle Myself Wonder
I have been seized by the power of a great affection.
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Affection Greatness Myself Power
I am wonderfully content with a God who does not deal with me as my sins deserve.
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Content Deserve God Myself Sin Wonderful
What makes the Kingdom come is heartfelt compassion: a way of tenderness that knows no frontiers, no labels, no compartmentalizing, and no sectarian divisions.
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Compassionate Department Division Heart Tender
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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Active Clarity Crave Destroy Elimination Father Restriction Risk
I could more easily contain Niagara Falls in a teacup than I can comprehend the wild, uncontainable love of God.
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Easy God Love Myself Wild
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
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
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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Demand Forgiveness Generosity God Healing Oppression Reveal Wound

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