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Real freedom is freedom from the opinions of others. Above all, freedom from your opinions about yourself.
Brennan Manning
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Brennan Manning
Age: 75 †
Born: 1937
Born: April 27
Died: 2013
Died: April 12
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Catholic Priest
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New York City
New York
Richard Francis Xavier Manning
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Faithfulness requires the courage to risk everything on Jesus, the willingness to keep growing, and the readiness to risk failure throughout our lives.
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Hope your wildest hopes, dream your maddest dreams, imagine your most fantastic fantasies. Where your hopes and your dreams and your imagination leave off, the love of my Heavenly Father only begins.
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You will trust God to the degree you know you are loved by Him.
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Our huffing and puffing to impress God, our scrambling for brownie points, our thrashing about trying to fix ourselves while hiding our pettiness and wallowing in guilt are nauseating to God and are a flat denial of the gospel of grace.
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A saint is not someone who is good but who experiences the goodness of God.
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Hope knows that if great trials are avoided great deeds remain undone and the possibility of growth into greatness of soul is aborted.
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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 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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The temptation of the age is to look good without being good.
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The ragamuffin who sees his life as a voyage of discovery and runs the risk of failure has a better feel for faithfulness than the timid man who hides behind the law and never finds out who he is at all.
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We must go out into a desert of some kind (your backyard will do) and come into a personal experience of the awesome love of God.
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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 Him by their lifestyle. That is what an unbelieving world simply finds unbelievable.
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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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Jesus comes for sinners, for those outcast...and those caught up in squalid choices and failed dreams.
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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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