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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.

Brennan Manning

The men and women who are truly filled with light are those who have gazed deeply into the darkness of their own imperfect existence.
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Darkness Existence Imperfection Light Man True Woman
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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Avoid Greatness Growth Hope Soul
The way you are with others every day, regardless of their status, is the true test of faith.
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Day Faith Regard Status Test Way
In every encounter we either give life or we drain it; there is no neutral exchange.
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Encounter exchange Life
Our hearts of stone become hearts of flesh when we learn where the outcast weeps.
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Cry Heart Learning Stone
A saint is not someone who is good but who experiences the goodness of God.
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Difference Experience God Goodness
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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Desert Experience God Kind Love Personal
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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Aware Deep Deserve God Love Myself
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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Compassionate Department Division Heart Tender
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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Control Coward Family Love Obedience Person Training
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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Gift Grace Guilt Imagination Reality Shame
The only kind of love that helps anyone grow is unconditional love.
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Growth Help Kind Love Unconditional
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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Children Commitment Gradual Mindset Nourish Nurture Spirit
Childlike surrender and trust, I believe, is the defining spirit of authentic discipleship.
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Authentic Believe Childhood Discipline Spirit Surender Trust
If asked whether I am finally letting God love me, just as I am, I would answer, ‘No, but I’m trying.
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God Love Myself Try
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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Demand Forgiveness Generosity God Healing Oppression Reveal Wound

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