"Craving clarity, we attempt to eliminate the risk……" — Brennan Manning
"Craving clarity, we attempt to eliminate the risk of trusting God. Fear of the unknown path stretching ahead of us destroys childlike trust in the Father's active goodness and unrestricted love."
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183 Quotes by Brennan Manning
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The greatest single cause of atheism in the world today is Christians, who acknowledge Jesus with their lips and walk…
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A saint is not someone who is good but who experiences the goodness of God.
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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…
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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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To lend each other a hand when we're falling, perhaps that's the only work that matters in the end.
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There are more active volcanoes beneath the sea than on land by two orders of magnitude.
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Science regards man as an aggregation of atoms temporarily united by a mysterious force called the life-principle. To the materialist,…
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The mental body, like the astral, varies much in different people; it is composed of coarser or of finer matter,…
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Curiosity, n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed…
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Active Evil is better than Passive Good.
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I've always been on the side of science that tries to help man. I play an active part with the…
— Andrea Bocelli
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The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he…
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As an active member of the Air Force, Army and Mine Warfare Caucuses, I meet with enlisted personnel and officers…
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Fortunately, Iranians are politically active worldwide.
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Memory in youth is active and easily impressible; in old age it is comparatively callous to new impressions, but still…
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When the farmer can sell directly to the consumer, it is a more active process. There's more contact. The consumer…
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We must look for ways to be an active force in our own lives. We must take charge of our…
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