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Richard Francis Xavier Manning ist bekannt als Brennan Manning und war ein US-amerikanischer geistlicher Schriftsteller, ehemaliger franziskanischer Priester und Redner. Wikipedia  

✵ 27. April 1934 – 12. April 2013
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“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.”

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Brennan Manning buch The Ragamuffin Gospel

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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

“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.”

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Brennan Manning buch The Ragamuffin Gospel

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

“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.”

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

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

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

“Do the truth quietly without display.”

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

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Brennan Manning buch The Ragamuffin Gospel

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

“Our identity rests in God's relentless tenderness for us revealed in Jesus Christ.”

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

“The unwounded life bears no resemblance to the Rabbi.”

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

“When our inner child is not nurtured and nourished, our minds gradually close to new ideas, unprofitable commitments and the surprises of the Spirit.”

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