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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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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
Jesus
Squalid
Comes
Outcast
Dream
Sinners
Sinner
Failed
Caught
Dreams
Choices

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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 hearts of stone become hearts of flesh when we learn where the outcast weeps.
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Childlike in faith means the daily acknowledgment of utter dependence and that I owe my life and being to another.
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This is the God of the gospel of grace. A God who, out of love for us, sent the only Son He ever had wrapped in our skin. He learned how to walk, stumbled and fell, cried for His milk, sweated blood in the night, was lashed with a whip and showered with spit, was fixed to a cross, and died whispering forgiveness on us all.
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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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To affirm a person is to see the good in them that they cannot see in themselves and to repeat it in spite of appearances to the contrary. Please, this is not some Pollyanna optimism that is blind to the reality of evil, but rather like a fine radar system that is tuned in to the true, the good, and the beautiful.
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Though it is true that the church must always dissociate itself from sin, it can never have any excuse for keeping any sinner at a distance.
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Childlike surrender and trust, I believe, is the defining spirit of authentic discipleship.
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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 only kind of love that helps anyone grow is unconditional love.
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There is an extraordinary power in storytelling that stirs the imagination and makes an indelible impression on the mind.
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One of my realizations in such an earthy atmosphere was that many of the burning theological issues in the church were neither burning nor theological.
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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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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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Christianity doesn’t deny the reality of suffering and evil… Our hope… is not based on the idea that we are going to be free of pain and suffering. Rather, it is based on the conviction that we will triumph over suffering.
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Quia amasti me, fecisti me amabilem. (In loving me, you made me lovable.)
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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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Sin and forgiveness and falling and getting back up and losing the pearl of great price in the couch cushions but then finding it again, and again, and again? Those are the stumbling steps to becoming Real, the only script that's really worth following in this world or the one that's coming.
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Choose a single, sacred word or phrase that captures something of the flavor of your intimate relationship with God. A word such as Jesus, Abba, Peace, God or a phrase such as Abba, I belong to you. . . . Without moving your lips, repeat the sacred word inwardly, slowly, and often.
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The gospel of grace nullifies our adulation of televangelists, charismatic superstars, and local church heroes. It obliterates the two-class citizenship theory operative in many American churches. For grace proclaims the awesome truth that all is gift. All that is good is ours, not by right, but by the sheer bounty of a gracious God.
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