"The gospel of grace nullifies our adulation of……" — Brennan Manning
"The gospel of grace nullifies our adulation of televangelists, charismatic superstars, and local church heroes. It obliterates the two-class citizenship theory operative in many American churches. For grace proclaims the awesome truth that all is gift. All that is good is ours, not by right, but by the sheer bounty of a gracious God."
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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 believe that it is possible for one to praise, without concern, any man after he is dead since every…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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The ambitious are forever followed by adulation for they receive the most pleasure from flattery.
— Oliver Goldsmith
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To criticize one's country is to do it a service.... Criticism, in short, is more than a right; it is…
— J. William Fulbright
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It appears to me that those who rely simply on the weight of authority to prove any assertion, without searching…
— Vincenzo Galilei
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A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a…
— Fawn M. Brodie
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In the game of cricket it has always been customary to accord more adulation to batsman than to bowlers.
— Ian Peebles
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The reason that adulation is not displeasing is that, though untrue, it shows one to be of consequence enough, in…
— Lord Byron
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Smitten as we are with the vision of social righteousness, a God indifferent to everything but adulation, and full of…
— William James
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Look, three love affairs in history, are Abelard and Eloise, Romeo and Juliet and the American media and this President…
— George Will
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I wanted to be seen as a good person, and never wanted to let people down, but I found it…
— Greg LeMond
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The only players that are having fun are those having a good year, feasting on pitching or blowing down hitters…
— Dave Winfield
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If you are lucky enough to be a success, by all means enjoy the applause and the adulation of the…
— Robert Montgomery
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