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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.

— 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)

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

The Ragamuffin Gospel (1990)

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

The Relentless Tenderness of Jesus (1986)

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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Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind.

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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell Marriage and Morals (1929)

Not for the body, but for the heart; companion and company are needed.

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Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies,
And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.

Alexander Pope

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