"When absolute control and rigid obedience pose as……" — Brennan Manning
"When absolute control and rigid obedience pose as love within the family and the local faith-community , we produce trained cowards rather than Christian persons."
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183 Quotes by Brennan Manning
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When being is divorced from doing, pious thoughts become an adequate substitute for washing dirty feet.
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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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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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