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“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.”
― Brennan Manning

“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.”
― Brennan Manning, Abba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging

“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.”
― Brennan Manning

“Real freedom is freedom from the opinions of others. Above all, freedom from your opinions about yourself. ”
― Brennan Manning, The Wisdom of Tenderness: What Happens When God's Fierce Mercy Transforms Our Lives – A Stirring Invitation to Accept God's Unfathomable Love

“Our hearts of stone become hearts of flesh when we learn where the outcast weeps.”
― Brennan Manning, Abba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging

“How glorious the splendor of a human heart that trusts that it is loved!”
― Brennan Manning

“The temptation of the age is to look good without being good.”
― Brennan Manning, The Ragamuffin Gospel

“In Love's service, only wounded soldiers can serve.”
― Brennan Manning, 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.”
― Brennan Manning

“You cannot amputate your history from your destiny, because that is redemption.”
― Beth Moore, Esther: It's Tough Being a Woman

“The moment we decide to throw more energy into fighting for our mate than with him, the crack of a fist on the enemy's jaw splits the ears of angels.”
― Beth Moore

“...if I die suddenly, my gravestone might appropriately offer this insight into my departure: "God got tired." I require lots of work.”
― Beth Moore, Believing God

“True intimacy with God always brings humility.”
― Beth Moore

“If you are not royalty, He is not King.”
― Beth Moore

“only you can decide how your fires will affect you. Will you be sanctified or scarred”
― Beth Moore, A Woman's Heart: God’s Dwelling Place

“Some things don't need to be cut back. They need to be cut off.”
― Beth Moore, Daniel: Lives of Integrity, Words of Prophecy - Member Book

“The next time you feel rejection's sting, remember God's words to Samuel: "It is not you they have rejected, but they have rejected me." (1 Sam. 8:7)”
― Beth Moore

“some of us have so much defeat in our past that we feel we lost the race before we knew it started.”
― Beth Moore, Believing in God - Member Book

“Because with every action, comment, conversation, we have the choice to invite Heaven or Hell to Earth.”
― Rob Bell