Brennan Manning Quotes
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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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Faith will become vision, hope will become possession, but the love of Jesus Christ that is stronger than death endures forever. In the end, it is the only thing you can hang onto.
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Our huffing and puffing to impress God, our scrambling for brownie points, our thrashing about trying to fix ourselves while hiding our pettiness and wallowing in guilt are nauseating to God and are a flat denial of the gospel of grace.
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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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Be daring enough to be different, humble enough to make mistakes, wild enough to be burnt in the fire of love, real enough to make others see how phony you are.
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The trouble with our ideals is that if we live up to all of them, we become impossible to live with.
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To be alive is to be broken; to be broken is to stand in need of grace.
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Grace is sufficient even though we huff and puff with all our might to try and find something or someone that it cannot cover. Grace is enough...
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Jesus comes not for the super-spiritual but for the wobbly and the weak-kneed who know they don’t have it all together, and who are not too proud to accept the handout of amazing grace.
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Without exposure to potential failure, there is no risk.
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One of my realizations in such an earthy atmosphere was that many of the burning theological issues in the church were neither burning nor theological.
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The only kind of love that helps anyone grow is unconditional love.
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Don't try to understand it. You won't succeed. Don't try to see it. You can't. Try to live it, and you will be living out of the center.
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No man can adequately reach and explain a single word of God with all his words.
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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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We miss Jesus' point entirely when we use His words as weapons against others.
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Childlike surrender and trust, I believe, is the defining spirit of authentic discipleship.
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Authentic Christianity should lead to maturity, personality, and reality. It should fashion whole men and women living lives of love and communion.
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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.
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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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There is the "you" that people see and then there is the "rest of you". Take some time and craft a picture of the "rest of you." This could be a drawing, in words, even a song. Just remember that the chances are good it will be full of paradox and contradictions.
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Letting ourselves be loved by God is more important than loving God.