"Our huffing and puffing to impress God, our……" — Brennan Manning
"Our huffing and puffing to impress God, our scrambling for brownie points, our thrashing about trying to fix ourselves while hiding our pettiness and wallowing in guilt are nauseating to God and are a flat out denial of the gospel of grace."
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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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I was a brownie for a day. My mom made me stop. She didn't want me to conform.
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I remember hearing Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee, Big Bill Broonzy, Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley and not really knowing…
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I'm the king of brownie sundaes!
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I smoke a cigar or two a day. I did have a brownie once. It made me sleepy.
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Our huffing and puffing to impress God, our scrambling for brownie points, our thrashing about trying to fix ourselves while…
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I have a candle on the bus that smells like caramel brownie. I love anything that smells like food!
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You know we fixate on the food so much itself: “Oh, the ultimate brownie or the ultimate this or that”…
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My father was a jazz tenor sax player. He played in a lot of big bands. So I had that…
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I was in the South of France. I saw a Brownie on a school trip. She was holding up a…
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I sang 'A Closer Walk with Thee' along with blues singer Brownie McGhee, ... Then there was a show where…
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Classic Christmas cookies are really time-consuming. Instead, make a bar you can bake in a pan and just cut up,…
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Most people go through their whole lives," John went on, "and never have one miracle happen to them. You've had…
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