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In loving me, you made me lovable.
Quia amasti me, fecisti me amabilem.
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The temptation of the age is to look good without being good.
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Letting ourselves be loved by God is more important than loving God.
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To be alive is to
be broken; to be broken is to stand in need of grace.
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The first step in faith is to stop thinking about God at the time of prayer.-
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We miss Jesus' point entirely when we use His words as weapons against others.
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By and large, the gospel of grace is neither proclaimed, understood, nor lived.
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No man can adequately reach and explain a single word of God with all his words
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Our hearts of stone become hearts of flesh when we learn where the outcast weeps.
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Our identity rests in God's relentless tenderness for us revealed in Jesus Christ.
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God is loving us - you and me - this moment, just as we are and not as we should be.
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In every encounter we either give life or we drain it; there is no neutral exchange.
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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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Troubadours have always been more important and influential than theologians and bishops
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The Christian with depth is the person who has failed and who has learned to live with it.
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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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We even refuse to be our true self with God- and then wonder why we lack intimacy with him.
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The gospel will persuade no one unless it has so convicted us that we are transformed by it.
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Trust is that rare and priceless treasure that wins us the affection of our heavenly Father.
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The way you are with others every day, regardless of their status, is the true test of faith.
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The trouble with our ideals is that if we live up to all of them, we become impossible to live with.
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Do you honestly believe God likes you, not just loves you because theologically God has to love you?
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If asked whether I am finally letting God love me, just as I am, I would answer, 'No, but I'm trying.
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When being is divorced from doing, pious thoughts become an adequate substitute for washing dirty feet.
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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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Define yourself radically as one beloved by God. This is the true self. Every other identity is illusion.
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Real freedom is freedom from the opinions of others. Above all, freedom from your opinions about yourself.
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All I have learned through trial and error is to stay alert and aware, especially God smiling @ our silliness.
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Only reckless confidence in a Source greater than ourselves can empower us to forgive the woulds inflicted by others.
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The secret of the mystery is: God is always greater. No matter how great we think Him to be, His love is always greater.
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Nobody ever did anything very foolish except from some strong principle.
William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne
Brennan Manning
Born:
April 27, 1934
Died:
April 12, 2013
(aged 78)
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