"We even refuse to be our true self……" — Brennan Manning
"We even refuse to be our true self with God- and then wonder why we lack intimacy with him."
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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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Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
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The gods too are fond of a joke.
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Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail…
— Johann Arndt
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If I were to say, 'God, why me?' about the bad things, then I should have said, 'God, why me?'…
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To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.
— Isaac Asimov
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If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will…
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I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.
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It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look.
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