Brennan Manning Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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To be alive is to be broken; to be broken is to stand in need of grace.
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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 only kind of love that helps anyone grow is unconditional love.
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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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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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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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Without exposure to potential failure, there is no risk.
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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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No man can adequately reach and explain a single word of God with all his words.
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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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We miss Jesus' point entirely when we use His words as weapons against others.
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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 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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Childlike surrender and trust, I believe, is the defining spirit of authentic discipleship.
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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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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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Letting ourselves be loved by God is more important than loving God.