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Christian Quotes by Brennan Manning
- The greatest single cause of atheism in the world today is Christians, who acknowledge Jesus with their lips and walk out the door, and deny…
- I am deeply distressed by what I only can call in our Christian culture the idolatry of the Scriptures. For many Christians, the Bible is…
- The Christian with depth is the person who has failed and who has learned to live with it.
- Too many Christians are living in a house of fear and not in the house of love.
- 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.
- The secret of the mystery is: God is always greater. No matter how great we think Him to be, His love is always greater.
- We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God... It is a strange fact that Christians and even ministers frequently consider their…
- Without fear I can acknowledge that the authentic Christian tension is not between life and death, but between life and life.
- Stop comparing or boast at your victories. He was referring to enormous vitality and strength of God of Jesus seeking union with us. The living…
- For me the most radical demand of Christian faith lies in summoning the courage to say yes to the present risenness of Jesus Christ.
- In my experience, self-hatred is the dominant malaise crippling Christians and stifling their growth in the Holy Spirit.
- Christianity happens when men and women accept with unwavering trust that their sins have been not only forgiven, but forgotten, washed away in the blood…
- The fierce words of Jesus addressed to the Pharisees of His day stretch across the bands of time. Today they are directed not only to…
- The noonday devil of the Christian life is the temptation to lose the inner self while preserving the shell of edifying behavior. Suddenly I discover…
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- Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words. — Francis of Assisi
- God loves each of us as if there were only one of us. — Saint Augustine
- No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more. — Saint Augustine
- The same thing which is now called Christian religion existed among the ancients. They have begun to call 'Christian' the true religion… — Saint Augustine
- The custom of speaking to God Almighty as freely as with a slave - caring nothing whether the words are suitable or… — Teresa of Avila
- I was born into a Christian family and brought up in a Lutheran church. My faith has been the center point of… — Michele Bachmann
- In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present. — Francis Bacon
- I'm a Jewish born-again Christian. — Stephen Baldwin
- The Christian response is contained in these two fundamental dogmas: that of the Trinity and that of the Incarnation. In the trinitarian… — Hans Urs von Balthasar