The Christian with depth is the person who has failed and who has learned to live with it.
BRENNAN MANNINGGod loves you unconditionally, as you are and not as you should be, because nobody is as they should be.
More Brennan Manning Quotes
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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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To be alive is to be broken; to be broken is to stand in need of grace.
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In every encounter we either give life or we drain it; there is no neutral exchange.
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I have been seized by the power of a great affection.
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In Love’s service, only wounded soldiers can serve.
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Letting ourselves be loved by God is more important than loving God.
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I asked for wonder, and He gave it to me.
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Our hearts of stone become hearts of flesh when we learn where the outcast weeps.
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Ruthless trust ultimately comes down to this: faith in the person of Jesus and hope in his promise.
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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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That which is denied cannot be healed.
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My deepest awareness of myself is that I am deeply loved by Jesus Christ and I have done nothing to earn it or deserve it.
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The greatest single cause of atheism in the world today is Christians, who acknowledge Jesus with their lips and walk out the door, and deny Him by their lifestyle. That is what an unbelieving world simply finds unbelievable.
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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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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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