"As we come to grips with our own……" — Brennan Manning
"As we come to grips with our own selfishness and stupidity, we make friends with the impostor and accept that we are impoverished and broken and realize that, if we were not, we would be God. The art of gentleness toward ourselves leads to being gentle with others -- and is a natural prerequisite for our presence to God in prayer."
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183 Quotes by Brennan Manning
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A saint is not someone who is good but who experiences the goodness of God.
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When being is divorced from doing, pious thoughts become an adequate substitute for washing dirty feet.
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May all your expectations be frustrated, may all your plans be thwarted, may all your desires be withered into nothingness,…
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In every encounter we either give life or we drain it; there is no neutral exchange.
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Jesus hung out with ragamuffins,
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God loves you unconditionally, as you are and not as you should be, because nobody is as they should be.
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Though it is true that the church must always dissociate itself from sin, it can never have any excuse for…
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Reality, truth, and Jesus Christ are incredibly open-ended
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I am deeply distressed by what I only can call in our Christian culture the idolatry of the Scriptures. For…
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