And Grace calls out, 'You are not just a disillusioned old man who may die soon, a middle-aged woman stuck in a job and desperately wanting to get out, a young person feeling the fire in the belly begin to grow cold. You may be insecure, inadequate, mistaken or potbellied. Death, panic, depression, and disillusionment may be near you. But you are not just that. You are accepted.' Never confuse your perception of yourself with the mystery that you really are accepted.
Brennan ManningThe ragamuffin gospel reveals that Jesus forgives sins, including the sins of the flesh; that He is comfortable with sinners who remember how to show compassion; but that He cannot and will not have a relationship with pretenders in the Spirit.
Brennan ManningWhen being is divorced from doing, pious thoughts become an adequate substitute for washing dirty feet.
Brennan ManningGod 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
Brennan ManningJesus comes for sinners, for those outcast...and those caught up in squalid choices and failed dreams.
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