"I want neither a terrorist spirituality that keeps……" — Brennan Manning
"I want neither a terrorist spirituality that keeps me in a perpetual state of fright about being in right relationship with my heavenly Father nor a sappy spirituality that portrays God as such a benign teddy bear that there is no aberrant behavior or desire of mine that he will not condone. I want a relationship with the Abba of Jesus, who is infinitely compassionate with my brokenness and at the same time an awesome, incomprehensible, and unwieldy Mystery."
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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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Craving clarity, we attempt to eliminate the risk of trusting God. Fear of the unknown path stretching ahead of us…
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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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My life is as good as an Abba song. It’s as good as Dancing Queen.
— Toni Collette
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You're not really supposed to like ABBA in Sweden. It's nerdy.
— Izabella Scorupco
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The cumulative weight of all mortal sins--past, present, and future--pressed upon that perfect, sinless, and sensitive Soul! All our infirmities…
— Neal A. Maxwell
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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…
— Brennan Manning
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ABBA: The Movie; I got a lot of grief for working on that.
— Lasse Hallstrom
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I made all their videos, apart from the last two, so if you ever see an Abba video on TV…
— Lasse Hallstrom
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My child, wilt thou not at this time cry unto me, 'Abba, Father?'
— Alexander MacLaren
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I thought if Oasis could get away with sounding like The Beatles, I could get away with sounding like Abba.
— Pete Waterman
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When I was younger, I was listening to a lot of Armenian music, you know, revolutionary music about freedom and…
— Serj Tankian
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Abba Moses asked Abba Sylvanus, Can a person lay a new foundation every day? The old man replied, If you…
— Saint John Chrysostom
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When Abba Anthony thought about the depths of the judgments of God, he asked, 'Lord, how is it that some…
— Anthony the Great
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I do listen to Abba. And a lot of '80s and '90s pop music.
— Camilla Lackberg
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