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“The Christian with depth is the person who has failed and who has learned to live with it.” quote by Brennan Manning — Download Open image

“The Christian with depth is the person who has failed and who has learned to live with it.”

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Accepting the reality of our sinfulness means accepting our authentic self. Judas could not face his shadow; Peter could. The latter befriended the impostor…

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Trust is our gift back to God, and he finds it so enchanting that Jesus died for love of it

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Genuine self-acceptance is not derived from the power of positive thinking, mind games or pop psychology. IT IS AN ACT OF FAITH in the…

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That which is denied cannot be healed.

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“It is not objective proof of God’s existence that we want but the experience of God’s presence. That is the miracle we are really…

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“He who is alone with his sins is utterly alone. It may be that Christians, notwithstanding corporate worship, common prayer, and all their fellowship in service, may still be left to their loneliness. The final breakthrough to fellowship does not occur because, though they have fellowship with one another as believers and as devout people, they do not have fellowship…

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God not only loves me as I am, but also knows me as I am. Because of this I don't need to apply spiritual…

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Grace abounds in contemporary movies, books, novels, films and music. If God is not in the whirlwind, He may be in a Woody Allen film, or a Bruce Springsteen concert. Most people understand imagery and symbol better than doctrine and dogma. Images touch hearts and awaken imaginations. One theologian suggested that Springsteen's 'Tunnel of Love' album, in which he symbolically…

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My trust in God flows out of the experience of his loving me, day in and day out, whether the day is stormy or…

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I you think you've done it, then you're wrong. Because you're not finished until you have achieved everything that you never thought you could.

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May all your expectations be frustrated, may all your plans be thwarted, may all your desires be withered into nothingness, that you may experience…

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Our identity rests in God's relentless tenderness for us revealed in Jesus Christ.

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