Letting ourselves be loved by God is more important than loving God.
BRENNAN MANNINGThat which is denied cannot be healed.
More Brennan Manning Quotes
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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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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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I asked for wonder, and He gave it to me.
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I could more easily contain Niagara Falls in a teacup than I can comprehend the wild, uncontainable love of God.
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The deepest desire of our hearts is for union for God. God created us for union with himself. This is the original purpose of our lives.
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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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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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On the last day, Jesus will look us over not for medals, diplomas, or honors, but for scars.
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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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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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How glorious the splendor of a human heart that trusts that it is loved!
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When we wallow in guilt, remorse, and shame over real or imagined sins of the past, we are disdaining God’s gift of grace.
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God is enough. That is the root of peace. When we start seeking something besides Him, we lose it.
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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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Anyone we come in contact with, we either offer them life, or we drain them.
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