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No man can adequately reach and explain a single word of God with all his words

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Brennan Manning
Age: 75 †
Born: 1937
Born: April 27
Died: 2013
Died: April 12
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Catholic Priest
Theologian
New York City
New York
Richard Francis Xavier Manning
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We have been given God in our souls and Christ in our flesh. We have the power to believe where others deny, to hope where others despair, to love where others hurt.
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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 God of grace.
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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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When we wallow in guilt, remorse, and shame over real or imagined sins of the past, we are disdaining God's gift of grace.
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My deepest awareness of myself is that I am deeply loved by Jesus Christ and I have done nothing to earn it or deserve it.
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The men and women who are truly filled with light are those who have gazed deeply into the darkness of their own imperfect existence.
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We are made for Christ, and nothing less will ever satisfy us.
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Craving clarity, we attempt to eliminate the risk of trusting God.
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A ragamuffin knows he's only a beggar at the door of God's mercy.
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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 of the Lamb. Thus, my friend archbishop Joe Reia says, A sad Christian is a phony Christian, and a guilty Christian is no Christian at all.
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Jesus reveals a God who does not demand but who gives who does not oppress but who raises up who does not wound but who heals who does not condemn but forgives.
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The Good News of the gospel of grace cries out: We are all, equally, privileged but unentitled beggars at the door of God's mercy!
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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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The only kind of love that helps anyone grow is unconditional love.
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The story goes that a public sinner was excommunicated and forbidden entry to the church. He took his woes to God. 'They won't let me in, Lord, because I am a sinner.' 'What are you complaining about?' said God. 'They won't let Me in either.
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Faith will become vision, hope will become possession, but the love of Jesus Christ that is stronger than death endures forever. In the end, it is the only thing you can hang onto.
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Jesus comes for sinners, for those outcast...and those caught up in squalid choices and failed dreams.
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It is for the inconsistent, unsteady disciples whose cheese is falling off their cracker.
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If in our hearts we really don't believe that God loves us as we are, if we are still tainted by the lie that we can do something to make God love us more, we are rejecting the message of the cross.
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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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