Brennan Manning Quotes
In my experience, self-hatred is the dominant malaise crippling Christians and stifling their growth in the Holy Spirit.
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I don't know whether Jews can behave like good Christians, but Muslim Arabs certainly cannot.
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My unrestrained commitment of myself to God gives the Holy Spirit the opportunity to grant to me the holiness of Jesus Christ.
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All Christians have the Spirit of Christ, but not all Christians have the mind of Christ.
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What is more absurd and more impious than to attribute the name of Lucifer to the devil, that is, to personified evil. The intellectual Lucifer is the spirit of intelligence and love; it is the paraclete, it is the Holy Spirit, while the physical Lucifer is the great agent of universal magnetism.
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I thank You, Jesus, that You brought into my heart God's love through the Holy Spirit. Thank You, Father, that Your love in me is stronger than my hatred.
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It is atheism and blasphemy to dispute what God can do: good Christians content themselves with His will revealed in His Word.
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There is one God. The Jews and the Christians have no monopoly on God. I'm speaking about the same God the Hindus talk about, the same God the Muslims talk about, the same God that the Taoists and the Confucians talk about.
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Christians are my brothers, Hindus are my brothers, all of them are my brothers. We just think different and believe different.
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Just look at the faces of the great Christians! They are the faces of great haters.
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A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.
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Christians are God's delivery people, through whom he does his giving to a needy world. We are conduits of God's grace to others. Our eternal investment portfolio should be full of the most strategic kingdom-building projects to which we can disburse God's funds.
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The Christians who engaged in infamous persecutions and shameful inquisitions were not evil men but misguided men. The churchmen who felt they had an edict from God to withstand the progress of science, whether in the form of a Copernican revolution or a Darwinian theory of natural selection, were not mischievous men but misinformed men. And so Christ's words from the cross are written in sharp-edged terms across some of the most inexpressible tragedies of history: 'They know not what they do'.
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We as Christians have a mandate to be nonconformists.
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I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.
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You Christians look after a document containing enough dynamite to blow all civilisation to pieces, turn the world upside down and bring peace to a battle-torn planet. But you treat it as though it is nothing more than a piece of literature.
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The scriptures of Christians, Mussalmans and Hindus are all replete with the teaching of ahimsa.
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I like their Christ, but I don't like their Christians.
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Today Christians... stand at the head of Germany... We want to fill our culture again with the Christian Spirit.
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By our everyday actions, by our unwillingness to admit our mistakes and sins, we Christians have declared God dead - perhaps without even realizing it. For is we no longer want to humble ourselves before God and man, acknowledging our sins, if we no longer want to repent, we do not need a living Savior.
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As Christians in America, we’re often lulled into the false belief that somehow we have a monopoly on the pure and undiluted version of the message of Jesus. Unfortunately, we don’t. Christianity by nature has a tendency to blend in and become obscured by the cultural influences that surround it—such has been the case for nearly 2,000 years of Christian history.
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we are just as apt to meet the grandmothers as the wolves when we go traveling.
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In my experience, self-hatred is the dominant malaise crippling Christians and stifling their growth in the Holy Spirit.
