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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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  People, Tragedy, Attention

  Brennan Manning (2010). “The Wisdom of Tenderness: What happens when God's firece mercy transforms our lives”, p.81, Zondervan

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• I am deeply distressed by what I only can call in our Christian culture the idolatry of the Scriptures. For many Christians, the Bible is not a pointer to God but God himself... God cannot be confined within the covers of a leather-bound book. I develop a nasty rash around people who speak as if mere scrutiny of its pages will reveal precisely how God thinks and precisely what God wants.

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  Christian, Book, Thinking

  Brennan Manning (2011). “The Signature of Jesus”, p.174, Multnomah

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• The spirituality of wonder knows the world is charged with grace, that while sin and war, disease and death are terribly real, God's loving presence and power in our midst are even more real.

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  Real, War, Disease And Death

  Brennan Manning (2008). “The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out”, p.65, Multnomah

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• Grace abounds in contemporary movies, books, novels, films and music. If God is not in the whirlwind, He may be in a Woody Allen film, or a Bruce Springsteen concert. Most people understand imagery and symbol better than doctrine and dogma. Images touch hearts and awaken imaginations. One theologian suggested that Springsteen's 'Tunnel of Love' album, in which he symbolically sings of sin, death, despair and redemption, is more important for Catholics than the Pope's last visit when he spoke of morality only in doctrinal propositions.

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  Love, Book, Heart

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• The sorrow of God lies in our fear of Him, our fear of life, and our fear of ourselves. He anguishes over our self-absorption and self-sufficiency... God's sorrow lies in our refusal to approach Him when we sinned and failed.

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  Fear, Lying, Self

  Brennan Manning (2015). “Abba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging”, p.4, NavPress

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• None of us has ever seen a motive. Therefore, we don't know we can't do anything more than suspect what inspires the action of another. For this good and valid reason, we're told not to judge. 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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  Judging, People, Inspire

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• The temptation of the age is to look good without being good.

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  Temptation, Age, Looks

  Brennan Manning (2008). “The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out”, p.81, Multnomah

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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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  Spiritual, Past, Simple

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• As we come to grips with our own selfishness and stupidity, we make friends with the impostor and accept that we are impoverished and broken and realize that, if we were not, we would be God. The art of gentleness toward ourselves leads to being gentle with others -- and is a natural prerequisite for our presence to God in prayer.

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  Art, Prayer, Broken

  Brennan Manning (2015). “Abba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging”, p.26, NavPress

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• Authentic faith leads us to treat others with unconditional seriousness and to a loving reverence for the mystery of the human personality. Authentic Christianity should lead to maturity, personality, and reality. It should fashion whole men and women living lives of love and communion. False, manhandled religion produces the opposite effect. Whenever religion shows contempt or disregards the rights of persons, even under the noblest pretexts, it draws us away from reality and God.

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  Fashion, Live Life, Reality

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• Today on planet Earth, may you experience the wonder and beauty of yourself as Abba’s Child and temple of the Holy Spirit through Jesus Christ

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  Jesus, Children, Today

  Brennan Manning (2015). “Abba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging”, p.17, NavPress

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• How I treat a brother or sister from day to day, how I react to the sin-scarred wino on the street, how I respond to interruptions from people I dislike, how I deal with normal people in their normal confusion on a normal day may be a better indication of my reverence for life than the antiabortion sticker on the bumper of my car.

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  Brother, People, Confusion

  Brennan Manning, Michael W. Smith (2000). “The ragamuffin Gospel”, Multnomah

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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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  Jesus, Promise, Ruthless

  Brennan Manning (2013). “NIV, Ragamuffin Bible, eBook: Meditations for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Brokenhearted”, p.2654, Harper Collins

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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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  Hurt, Believe, Soul

  Brennan Manning (2008). “The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out”, p.17, Multnomah

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• Craving clarity, we attempt to eliminate the risk of trusting God. Fear of the unknown path stretching ahead of us destroys childlike trust in the Father's active goodness and unrestricted love.

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  Father, Risk, Path

  Brennan Manning (2010). “Ruthless Trust: The Ragamuffin's Path to God”, p.6, Harper Collins

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• In my experience, self-hatred is the dominant malaise crippling Christians and stifling their growth in the Holy Spirit.

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  Christian, Self, Hatred

  Brennan Manning (2015). “Abba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging”, p.7, NavPress

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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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  Transformed

  Brennan Manning (2011). “The Signature of Jesus”, p.19, Multnomah

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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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  Hero, Class, Two

  Brennan Manning (2008). “The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out”, p.19, Multnomah

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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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  Real, Past, Grace

  Brennan Manning (2008). “The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out”, p.73, Multnomah

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• Childlike surrender and trust, I believe, is the defining spirit of authentic discipleship.

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  Believe, Defining, Spirit

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• Grace is sufficient even though we huff and puff with all our might to try and find something or someone that it cannot cover. Grace is enough...

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  Grace, Trying, Puff

  "All Is Grace: A Ragamuffin Memoir". Book by Brennan Manning and John Blase, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 2011.

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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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  Self Esteem, Positive Thinking, Acceptance

  Brennan Manning (2008). “The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out”, p.32, Multnomah

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• When absolute control and rigid obedience pose as love within the family and the local faith-community , we produce trained cowards rather than Christian persons.

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  Christian, Community, Coward

  Brennan Manning (2010). “The Wisdom of Tenderness: What happens when God's firece mercy transforms our lives”, p.88, Zondervan

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• Rome is burning, Jesus says. Drop your fiddle, change your life and come to Me. Let go of the good days that never were - a regimented church you never attended, traditional virtues you never practiced, legalistic obedience you never honored, and a sterile orthodoxy you never accepted. The old era is done. The decisive inbreak of God has happened.

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  Letting Go, Jesus, Good Day

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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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  Prayer, Men, Essence

  Brennan Manning (2008). “The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out”, p.30, Multnomah

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