Children Quotes by Brennan Manning

13 Children quotes by Brennan Manning

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Manning’s gentle spirituality finds a tender echo in his words about youth. These thirteen reflections invite you to consider how children embody grace, vulnerability, and the quiet power of love.

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When our inner child is not nurtured and nourished, our minds gradually close to new ideas, unprofitable commitments and the surprises of…

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May all your expectations be frustrated, may all your plans be thwarted, may all your desires be withered into nothingness, that you…

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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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“The gospel of grace calls us to sing of the everyday mystery of intimacy with God instead of always seeking for miracles…

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“Larry Hein, who wrote the blessing: May all your expectations be frustrated, may all your plans be thwarted, may all your desires…

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Whenever I allow anything but tenderness and compassion to dictate my response to life--be it self-righteous anger, moralizing, defensiveness, the pressing need…

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“The Christian lives by grace as Abba’s child, utterly rejecting the God who catches people by surprise in a moment of weakness—the…

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The anything-goes passiveness of the religious and political Left is matched by the preachy moralism of the religious and political Right. The…

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If we maintain the open-mindedness of children, we challenge fixed ideas and established structures, including our own. We listen to people in…

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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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“Is there anyone I can level with? Anyone I dare tell that I am benevolent and malevolent, chaste and randy, compassionate and…

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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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“For the Christian one dislocating, self-impoverishing hour spent with a child living in a broken-down dump is worth more than all the…

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Accepting the reality of our sinfulness means accepting our authentic self. Judas could not face his shadow; Peter could. The latter befriended the impostor…

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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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Genuine self-acceptance is not derived from the power of positive thinking, mind games or pop psychology. IT IS AN ACT OF FAITH in the…

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That which is denied cannot be healed.

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“It is not objective proof of God’s existence that we want but the experience of God’s presence. That is the miracle we are really…

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“He who is alone with his sins is utterly alone. It may be that Christians, notwithstanding corporate worship, common prayer, and all their fellowship…

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God not only loves me as I am, but also knows me as I am. Because of this I don't need to apply spiritual…

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Grace abounds in contemporary movies, books, novels, films and music. If God is not in the whirlwind, He may be in a Woody Allen…

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My trust in God flows out of the experience of his loving me, day in and day out, whether the day is stormy or…

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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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May all your expectations be frustrated, may all your plans be thwarted, may all your desires be withered into nothingness, that you may experience…

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

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“When I get honest I admit that I am a bundle of paradoxes. I believe and I doubt, I hope and I get discouraged.…

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“At Sunday worship, as in every dimension of our existence, many of us pretend to believe we are sinners. Consequently, all we can do…

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“You tell others about Me - that I am a loving God. Your words are glib. My words are written in the blood of…

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