Anyone we come in contact with, we either offer them life, or we drain them.
BRENNAN MANNINGIf asked whether I am finally letting God love me, just as I am, I would answer, ‘No, but I’m trying.
More Brennan Manning Quotes
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A saint is not someone who is good but who experiences the goodness of God.
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The gospel will persuade no one unless it has so convicted us that we are transformed by it.
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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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Assured of your salvation by the unique grace of our Lord Jesus Christ” is the heartbeat of the gospel, joyful liberation from fear of the Final Outcome, a summons to self-acceptance, and freedom for a life of compassion toward others.
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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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The Christian with depth is the person who has failed and who has learned to live with it.
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How glorious the splendor of a human heart that trusts that it is loved!
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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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On the last day, Jesus will look us over not for medals, diplomas, or honors, but for scars.
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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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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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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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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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I am wonderfully content with a God who does not deal with me as my sins deserve.
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Our hearts of stone become hearts of flesh when we learn where the outcast weeps.
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