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By and large, the gospel of grace is neither proclaimed, understood, nor lived.

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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
Gospel
Neither
Large
Lived
Understood
Grace
Proclaimed

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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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We even refuse to be our true self with God- and then wonder why we lack intimacy with him.
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Ruthless trust ultimately comes down to this: faith in the person of Jesus and hope in his promise.
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The most powerful thing that can happen in the place of prayer is that you yourself become the prayer. You leave the prayer room able as Jesus' hands and feet on earth. This is what it means to pray continually (without ceasing), to see with the eyes of Jesus and to hear with His ears with every waking moment.
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Tragedy is that our attention centers on what people are not, rather than on what they are and who they might become.
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No man can adequately reach and explain a single word of God with all his words
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In essence, there is only one thing God asks of us - that we be men and women of prayer, people for whom God is everything and for whom God is enough. That is the root of peace. We have that peace when the gracious God is all we seek. When we start seeking something besides Him, we lose it.
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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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Those who have the disease called Jesus will never be cured.
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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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We are not cowed into timidity by death and life. Were we forced to rely on our own shabby resources we would be pitiful people in deed. But the awareness of Christ's present risenness persuades us that we are buoyed up and carried on by a life greater than our own.
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I believe that the real difference in the American church is not between conservatives and liberals, fundamentalists and charismatics, nor between Republicans and Democrats. The real difference is between the aware and the unaware.
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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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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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Craving clarity, we attempt to eliminate the risk of trusting God.
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God loves us as we are...not as we ought to be. because we are never going to be as we ought to be. --Brennan Manning
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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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Our hearts of stone become hearts of flesh when we learn where the outcast weeps.
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