Frases de Brennan Manning (52 citas)

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

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

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Brennan Manning

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

“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.”

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Brennan Manning

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

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Brennan Manning

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

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

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Brennan Manning

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

“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.”

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Brennan Manning

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

“How glorious the splendor of a human heart that trusts that it is loved!”

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“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.”

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Brennan Manning

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

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

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Brennan Manning

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

“When a man or woman is truly honest, it is virtually impossible to insult them personally.”

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Brennan Manning

“Do the truth quietly without display.”

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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

“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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Brennan Manning

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

“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.”

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Brennan Manning

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

“Accepting the reality of our sinfulness means accepting our authentic self. Judas could not face his shadow; Peter could. The latter befriended the impostor within; the former raged against him.”

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Brennan Manning

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

“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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Brennan Manning

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

“The gospel declares that no matter how dutiful or prayerful we are, we can't save ourselves. What Jesus did was sufficient.”

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Brennan Manning

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

“The litmus test of our love for God is our love of neighbor.”

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Brennan Manning

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

“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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Brennan Manning

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

“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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Brennan Manning

“I have been seized by the power of a great affection.”

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Brennan Manning libro The Ragamuffin Gospel

p. 181 https://books.google.com/books?id=sUTZCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA181
1990s, The Ragamuffin Gospel (1990)
Fuente: The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out