Brennan Manning Quotes
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The Christian with depth is the person who has failed and who has learned to live with it.
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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.
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There is an extraordinary power in storytelling that stirs the imagination and makes an indelible impression on the mind.
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God is a kooky God who can scarcely bear to be without us.
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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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I you think you've done it, then you're wrong. Because you're not finished until you have achieved everything that you never thought you could.
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By and large, the gospel of grace is neither proclaimed, understood, nor lived.
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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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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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We miss Jesus' point entirely when we use His words as weapons against others.
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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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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.
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Do the truth quietly without display.
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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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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 ragamuffin gospel says we can't lose, because we have nothing to lose.
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Stop comparing or boast at your victories. He was referring to enormous vitality and strength of God of Jesus seeking union with us. The living acts of a Christian become somehow the acts of Christ.
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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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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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Let us be bold enough to ask ourselves as Christians whether the Church of the Lord Jesus in the United States has anything to say to our nation and its ideologies of materialism, possessiveness, and the worship of financial security. Are we courageous enough to be a sign of contradiction to consumerism through our living faith in Jesus Christ? Are we committed enough to his gospel to become a countercurrent to the drift?
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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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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.