Letting ourselves be loved by God is more important than loving God.
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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Faithfulness requires the courage to risk everything on Jesus, the willingness to keep growing, and the readiness to risk failure throughout our lives.
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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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God is loving us – you and me – this moment, just as we are and not as we should be.
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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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How glorious the splendor of a human heart that trusts that it is loved!
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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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Real freedom is freedom from the opinions of others. Above all, freedom from your opinions about yourself.
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Jesus comes for sinners, for those outcast and those caught up in squalid choices and failed dreams.
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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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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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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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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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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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I asked for wonder, and He gave it to me.
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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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