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Rather Quotes by Brennan Manning
- The saved sinner is prostrate in adoration, lost in wonder and praise. He knows repentance is not what we do in order to earn forgiveness;…
- Tragedy is that our attention centers on what people are not, rather than on what they are and who they might become.
- 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.
- Christianity doesn’t deny the reality of suffering and evil… Our hope… is not based on the idea that we are going to be free of…
- None of us has ever seen a motive. Therefore, we don't know we can't do anything more than suspect what inspires the action of another.…
- To affirm a person is to see the good in them that they cannot see in themselves and to repeat it in spite of appearances…
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