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Faithfulness requires the courage to risk everything on Jesus, the willingness to keep growing, and the readiness to risk failure throughout our lives.

— Brennan Manning The Ragamuffin Gospel (1990)

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The tragedy is that our attention centers on what people are not, rather than on what they are and who they might become.

The Wisdom of Tenderness: What happens when God's firece mercy transforms our lives (2002)

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

The Ragamuffin Gospel (1990)

Those who have the disease called Jesus will never be cured.

The Relentless Tenderness of Jesus (1986)

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.

The Ragamuffin Gospel (1990)

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.

The Ragamuffin Gospel (1990)

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Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.

William Shakespeare Julius Caesar (1599)

All doubt is cowardice — all trust is brave.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Courage is never born with a person; time and circumstances inject it into a person and bring it forth from within.

Sanu Sharma

Christianity offers reasons for not fearing death or the universe, and in so doing it fails to teach adequately the virtue of courage.

Bertrand Russell Education and the Social Order (1932)

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