We do not consecrate the flag by punishing its desecration, for in doing so, we dilute the freedom this cherished emblem represents.
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BRENNAN MANNING If in our hearts we really don’t believe that God loves us as we are, if we are still tainted by t...
BRENNAN MANNING The spiritual future of ragamuffins consists not in disavowing that we are sinners but in accepting ...
BRENNAN MANNING Yes, God saved us because He loved us. But He is God. He has infinite imagination. Couldn’t He hav...
BRENNAN MANNING The trouble with our ideals is that if we live up to all of them, we become impossible to live with.
BRENNAN MANNING Suffering, failure, loneliness, sorrow, discouragement, and death will be part of your journey, but ...
BRENNAN MANNING The sinners to whom Jesus directed His messianic ministry were not those who skipped morning devotio...
BRENNAN MANNING And Grace calls out, 'You are not just a disillusioned old man who may die soon, a middle-aged woman...
BRENNAN MANNING The gospel declares that no matter how dutiful or prayerful we are, we can't save ourselves. What Je...
BRENNAN MANNING When I get honest, I admit I am a bundle of paradoxes. I believe and I doubt, I hope and get discour...
BRENNAN MANNING For those who feel their lives are a grave disappointment to God, it requires enormous trust and rec...
BRENNAN MANNING We should be astonished at the goodness of God, stunned that He should bother to call us by name, ou...
BRENNAN MANNING The temptation of the age is to look good without being good.
BRENNAN MANNING Authentic faith leads us to treat others with unconditional seriousness and to a loving reverence fo...
BRENNAN MANNING Everybody has a vocation to some form of life-work. However, behind that call (and deeper than any c...
BRENNAN MANNING When I get honest, I admit I am a bundle of paradoxes. I believe and I doubt, I hope and get discour...
BRENNAN MANNING Our hearts of stone become hearts of flesh when we learn where the outcast weeps.
BRENNAN MANNING Live in the wisdom of accepted tenderness. Tenderness awakens within the security of knowing we are ...
BRENNAN MANNING Our identity rests in God's relentless tenderness for us revealed in Jesus Christ.
BRENNAN MANNING As we come to grips with our own selfishness and stupidity, we make friends with the impostor and ac...
BRENNAN MANNING Stop comparing or boast at your victories. He was referring to enormous vitality and strength of God...
BRENNAN MANNING The engaged mind, illuminated by truth, awakens awareness; the engaged heart, affected by love, awak...
BRENNAN MANNING While the impostor draws his identity from past achievements and the adulation of others, the true s...
BRENNAN MANNING To ignore, repress, or dismiss our feelings is to fail to listen to the stirrings of the Spirit with...
BRENNAN MANNING Silent solitude makes true speech possible and personal. If I am not in touch with my own belovednes...
BRENNAN MANNING When we wallow in guilt, remorse, and shame over real or imagined sins of the past, we are disdainin...
BRENNAN MANNING The death of Jesus Christ on the cross is His greatest single act of unwavering trust in His Abba’...
BRENNAN MANNING [The] insistence on the absolutely indiscriminate nature of compassion within the Kingdom is the dom...
BRENNAN MANNING We're looking forward to another good season.
BARBARA BRENNAN We've talked about it,
BARBARA BRENNAN We had six, lost three, then gained three, and have six again. We have a nice group. Annmarie, Kathy...
BARBARA BRENNAN He's always been a good shooter. Nobody knew about him and I'm sure these guys didn't. I knew they w...
RICH BRENNAN I had rather face wild beasts and diseases than the perils of civilization."
There is a proverb...
MARIE BRENNAN Because salvation is by grace through faith, I believe that among the countless number of people sta...
BRENNAN MANNING Trust is that rare and priceless treasure that wins us the affection of our heavenly Father.
BRENNAN MANNING The ragamuffin who sees his life as a voyage of discovery and runs the risk of failure has a better ...
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