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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. (Brennan Manning)
How glorious the splendor of a human heart that trusts that it is loved! View quote
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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. View quote
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When a man or woman is truly honest, it is virtually impossible to insult them personally. View quote
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Our hearts of stone become hearts of flesh when we learn where the outcast weeps. View quote
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There is a beautiful transparency to honest disciples who never wear a false face and do not pretend to be anything but who they are. View quote
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The temptation of the age is to look good without being good. View quote
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The story goes that a public sinner was excommunicated and forbidden entry to the church. He took his woes to God. 'They won't let me in, Lord, because I am a sinner.' 'What are you complaining about?' said God. 'They won't let Me in either. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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In Love's service, only wounded soldiers can serve. (Brennan Manning)
I believe that the real difference in the American church is not between conservatives and liberals, fundamentalists and charismatics, nor between Republicans and Democrats. The real difference is between the aware and the unaware. View quote
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Real freedom is freedom from the opinions of others. Above all, freedom from your opinions about yourself. View quote
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Genuine self-acceptance is not derived from the power of positive thinking, mind games or pop psychology. IT IS AN ACT OF FAITH in the God of grace. View quote
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In my experience, self-hatred is the dominant malaise crippling Christians and stifling their growth in the Holy Spirit. View quote
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We have been given God in our souls and Christ in our flesh. We have the power to believe where others deny, to hope where others despair, to love where others hurt. View quote
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Ruthless trust ultimately comes down to this: faith in the person of Jesus and hope in his promise. View quote
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For me the most radical demand of Christian faith lies in summoning the courage to say yes to the present risenness of Jesus Christ. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. (Brennan Manning)
Everybody has a vocation to some form of life-work. However, behind that call (and deeper than any call), everybody has a vocation to be a person to be fully and deeply human in Christ Jesus. View quote
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Put bluntly, the American church today accepts grace in theory but denies it in practice. We say we believe that the fundamental structure of reality is grace, not works - but our lives refute our faith. View quote
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The ragamuffin who sees his life as a voyage of discovery and runs the risk of failure has a better feel for faithfulness than the timid man who hides behind the law and never finds out who he is at all. View quote
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Accepting the reality of our sinfulness means accepting our authentic self. Judas could not face his shadow; Peter could. The latter befriended the impostor within; the former raged against him. View quote
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