Brennan Manning Quotes
The Good News of the gospel of grace cries out: We are all, equally, privileged but unentitled beggars at the door of God's mercy!
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I'm childish and silly. Most people tease me because I'm a bit daft.
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We have to be careful not to look for confidence in the acceptance of others because true confidence only comes from knowing God.
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I'm looking for a world where love will no longer be extraordinary.
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..the wind of 'art brut' blows on writing as well as on other avenues of artistic creation.
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Humanism was not invented by man, but by a snake who suggested that the quest for autonomy might be a good idea.
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The real crisis of worship today is not that the preaching is paltry or that it's too drafty in church. It is that people have no sense of the presence of God, and if they have no sense of His presence, how can they be moved to express the deepest feelings of their souls to honor, revere, worship, and glorify God?
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It has been said by church historians that in those periods of Christian history where renewal, revival, and awakening took place and the church was at its strongest, that coincidental with those periods in church history, there was a strong focus on the psalms in the life of God's people-particularly in the worship of God's people.
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This is God's work, and God's work will not be frustrated. But there is still much to be done.
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There is a big difference between an honest mistake made in a moment of spiritual weakness and a willfull decision to disobey persistently the commandments of God. Those who deliberately choose to violate God's commandments or ignore the standards of the Church, even when promising themselves and others that someday they will be strong enough to repent, are stepping into a dangerously slippery slope upon which many have lost their spiritual footing.
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God rarely allows a person to see how great a blessing he is to others.
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Everyone agrees the celibacy rule is just a Church law dating from the 11th century, not a divine command.
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Let me peer out at the world through your lens. (Maybe I'll shudder, or gasp, or tilt my head in a question.) Let me see how your blue is my turquoise and my orange is your gold. Suddenly binary stars, we have startling gravity. Let's compare scintillation - let's share starlight.
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What shall we do with...the Jews?...I advise that safe-conduct on the highways be abolished completely for the Jews.
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Most people's strategy to achieve more is to do more. But when you focus on becoming more, you find that you can achieve more by doing less.
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I love every bone in a woman's body, especially mine.
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There must be a beginning of any great matter, but the continuing unto the end until it be thoroughly finished yields the true glory.
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The gospel has but a forced alliance with war. Its doctrine of human brotherhood would ring strangely between the opposed ranks. The bellowing speech of cartoon and the baptism of blood mock its liturgies and sacraments. Its gentle beatitudes would hardly serve as mottoes for defiant banners, nor its list of graces as names for ships-of-the-line.
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The Good News of the gospel of grace cries out: We are all, equally, privileged but unentitled beggars at the door of God's mercy!
