Brennan Manning - Identity Quotes

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Define yourself radically as one beloved by God. This is the true self. Every other identity is illusion.

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Being the beloved is our identity, the core of our existence. It is not merely a lofty thought, an inspiring idea, or one name among many. It is the name by which God knows us and the way He relates to us

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While the impostor draws his identity from past achievements and the adulation of others, the true self claims identity in its belovedness. We encounter God in the ordinariness of life: not in the search for spiritual highs and extraordinary, mystical experiences but in our simple presence in life.

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Whenever I allow anything but tenderness and compassion to dictate my response to life—be it self-righteous anger, moralizing, defensiveness, the pressing need to change others...I am alienated from my true self. My identity as Abba's child [a child of God] becomes ambiguous, tentative and confused

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

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In human beings, love is a quality, a high-prized virtue; in God, love is His identity.

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