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“My deepest awareness of myself is that I am deeply loved by Jesus Christ and I have done nothing to earn it or deserve it.”

Brennan Manning book The Ragamuffin Gospel

p. 11 https://books.google.com/books?id=sUTZCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA11
Source: 1990s, The Ragamuffin Gospel (1990)

Love , Christ

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

Brennan Manning

Source: Abba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging

“Silent solitude makes true speech possible and personal. If I am not in touch with my own belovedness, then I cannot touch the sacredness of others. If I am estranged from myself, I am likewise a stranger to others.”

Brennan Manning

Source: Abba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging

Solitude , Personality

“When I get honest, I admit I am a bundle of paradoxes. I believe and I doubt, I hope and get discouraged, I love and I hate, I feel bad about feeling good, I feel guilty about not feeling guilty. I am trusting and suspicious. I am honest and I still play games. Aristotle said I am a rational animal; I say I am an angel with an incredible capacity for beer.”

Brennan Manning book The Ragamuffin Gospel

p. 11 https://books.google.com/books?id=sUTZCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA11
1990s, The Ragamuffin Gospel (1990)

Hate , Beer , Bad luck , Game

“In a futile attempt to erase our past, we deprive the community of our healing gift. If we conceal our wounds out of fear and shame, our inner darkness can neither be illuminated nor become a light for others.”

Brennan Manning

Source: Abba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging

Fear , Communication , Light , Past

“Define yourself radically as one beloved by God. This is the true self. Every other identity is illusion.”

Brennan Manning

Source: Abba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging

God

“To live by grace means to acknowledge my whole life story, the light side and the dark. In admitting my shadow side I learn who I am and what God’s grace means.”

Brennan Manning book The Ragamuffin Gospel

p. 11 https://books.google.com/books?id=sUTZCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA11
1990s, The Ragamuffin Gospel (1990)

Life , God , Light , Learning

“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.”

Brennan Manning

As quoted in "The Ragamuffin Legacy" https://relevantmagazine.com/god/practical-faith/ragamuffin-legacy (16 April 2013), by Ben Simpson, Relevant Magazine
1990s

World

“Real freedom is freedom from the opinions of others. Above all, freedom from your opinions about yourself.”

Brennan Manning

Source: The Wisdom of Tenderness: What Happens When God's Fierce Mercy Transforms Our Lives

Freedom

“There is a beautiful transparency to honest disciples who never wear a false face and do not pretend to be anything but who they are.”

Brennan Manning
Beauty , Falseness

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

Brennan Manning

Source: The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out

Deep , Age

“Our hearts of stone become hearts of flesh when we learn where the outcast weeps.”

Brennan Manning

Source: Abba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging

Learning , Heart

“The story goes that a public sinner was excommunicated and forbidden entry to the church. He took his woes to God. 'They won't let me in, Lord, because I am a sinner.'

'What are you complaining about?' said God. 'They won't let Me in either.”

Brennan Manning

Source: The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out

God

“We should be astonished at the goodness of God, stunned that He should bother to call us by name, our mouths wide open at His love, bewildered that at this very moment we are standing on holy ground.”

Brennan Manning

Source: The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out

Love , God

“In Love's service, only wounded soldiers can serve.”

Brennan Manning

Source: Abba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging

Love

“Do the truth quietly without display.”

Brennan Manning

Reflections for Ragamuffins: Daily Devotions from the Writings of Brennan Manning https://books.google.com/books?id=Gxv208Eit_4C&pg=PT322 (1998), p. 22
1990s

Truth

“Hope knows that if great trials are avoided great deeds remain undone and the possibility of growth into greatness of soul is aborted.”

Brennan Manning

Source: Abba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging

Hope , Soul

“we unwittingly project onto God our own attitudes and feelings toward ourselves… But we cannot assume that He feels about us the way we feel about ourselves -- unless we love ourselves compassionately, intensely, and freely.”

Brennan Manning

Source: Abba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging

Love , God , Way , Feeling