Jesus Quotes by Brennan Manning

Jesus hung out with ragamuffins,

— Brennan Manning

I have been seized by the power of a great affection.

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Those who have the disease called Jesus will never be cured.

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Reality, truth, and Jesus Christ are incredibly open-ended

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“Christ's anger is the storm-front of His love.”

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The unwounded life bears no resemblance to the Rabbi.

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Our identity rests in God's relentless tenderness for us revealed in Jesus Christ.

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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…

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We miss Jesus' point entirely when we use His words as weapons against others.

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Ruthless trust ultimately comes down to this: faith in the person of Jesus and hope in his promise.

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Trust is our gift back to God, and he finds it so enchanting that Jesus died for love of it

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The gospel declares that no matter how dutiful or prayerful we are, we can't save ourselves. What Jesus did was sufficient.

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Jesus comes for sinners, for those outcast...and those caught up in squalid choices and failed dreams.

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On the last day, Jesus will look us over not for medals, diplomas, or honors, but for scars.

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Today on planet Earth, may you experience the wonder and beauty of yourself as Abba’s Child and temple of the Holy Spirit…

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Jesus was victorious not because he never flinched, talked back, or questioned, but having flinched, talked back, and questioned, he remained faithful.

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Assured of your salvation by the unique grace of our Lord Jesus Christ" is the heartbeat of the gospel, joyful liberation from…

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Everybody has a vocation to some form of life-work. However, behind that call (and deeper than any call), everybody has a vocation…

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For me the most radical demand of Christian faith lies in summoning the courage to say yes to the present risenness of…

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Jesus reveals a God who does not demand but who gives; who does not oppress but who raises up; who does not…

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The greatest single cause of atheism in the world today is Christians, who acknowledge Jesus with their lips and walk out the…

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* Recognize that God is with you. * Acknowledge God knows what He's doing. * Search for God's will: the path He…

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Leadership in the church is not entrusted to successful fund raisers, brilliant biblical scholars, administrative geniuses, or spellbinding preachers...but to those who…

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“Suffering, failure, loneliness, sorrow, discouragement, and death will be part of your journey, but the Kingdom of God will conquer all these…

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The sinners to whom Jesus directed His messianic ministry were not those who skipped morning devotions or Sunday church. His ministry was…

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Jesus says. "Acknowledge and accept who I want to be for you: a Savior of boundless compassion, infinite patience, unbearable forgiveness, and…

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[Jesus] matters because of what he brought and what he still brings to ordinary human beings, living their ordinary lives and coping…

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What makes authentic disciples is not visions, ecstasies, biblical mastery of chapter and verse, or spectacular success in the ministry, but a…

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Sheer scholarship alone cannot reveal to us the gospel of grace. We must never allow the authority of books, institutions, or leaders…

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The splendor of a human heart that trusts it is loved unconditionally gives God more pleasure than Westminster Cathedral, the Sistine Chapel,…

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“The gospel is absurd and the life of Jesus is meaningless unless we believe that He lived, died, and rose again with…

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To ignore, repress, or dismiss our feelings is to fail to listen to the stirrings of the Spirit within our emotional life.…

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The fierce words of Jesus addressed to the Pharisees of His day stretch across the bands of time. Today they are directed…

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“[The] insistence on the absolutely indiscriminate nature of compassion within the Kingdom is the dominant perspective of almost all of Jesus' teaching.…

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For those who feel their lives are a grave disappointment to God, it requires enormous trust and reckless, raging confidence to accept…

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The life of Jesus suggests that to be like Abba is to show compassion.

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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…

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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…

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The life of Jesus suggests that to be like Abba is to show compassion. Donald Gray expresses this: "Jesus reveals in an…

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Our culture says that ruthless competition is the key to success. Jesus says that ruthless compassion is the purpose of our journey.

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