Monday, March 28, 2011
forgiveness
"Sincere forgiveness isn't colored with expectations that the other person apologize or change. Don't worry about whether or not they finally understand you. Love them and release them. Life feeds back truth to people in its own way and time."
because He loves me
"How difficult it is to be honest, to accept that I am unacceptable, to renounce self-justification, to give up the pretense that my prayers, spiritual insight, tithing, and success in ministry have made me pleasing to God! ... I am lovable only because He loves me."
- Brennan Manning in "The Ragamuffin Gospel"
grace
"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."
- Brennan Manning
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