In Love’s service, only wounded soldiers can serve.
BRENNAN MANNINGThe 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.
More Brennan Manning Quotes
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The way you are with others every day, regardless of their status, is the true test of faith.
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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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Our hearts of stone become hearts of flesh when we learn where the outcast weeps.
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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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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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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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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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The temptation of the age is to look good without being good.
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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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You will trust God to the degree you know you are loved by 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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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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we unwittingly project onto God our own attitudes and feelings toward ourselves… But we cannot assume that He feels about us the way we feel about ourselves — unless we love ourselves compassionately, intensely, and freely.
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Our culture says that ruthless competition is the key to success. Jesus says that ruthless compassion is the purpose of our journey.
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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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