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The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out
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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: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out
Never confuse your perception of yourself with the mystery that you really are accepted.
Brennan Manning • The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out
Morton Kelsey wrote, “The church is not a museum for saints but a hospital for sinners.”
Brennan Manning • The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out
Julian of Norwich, “The greatest honor we can give Almighty God is to live gladly because of the knowledge of his love.”
Brennan Manning • The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out
We do not attain anything by our own holiness but by ten thousand surrenders to mercy. A lifetime of received forgiveness allows us to become mercy. Mercy becomes our energy, our meaning. Perhaps we are finally enlightened and free when we can both receive mercy and give it away—without payment or punishment.
Richard Rohr • Receiving God’s Mercy
The main message of Jesus, I believed, is that mercy trumps justice every time.