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“Ragamuffins are simple, direct and honest. Their speech is unaffected. They are slow to claim, "God told me..." As they make their way through the world, they bear wordless, prophetic witness.”
― Brennan Manning, The Ragamuffin Gospel

“The saved sinner is prostrate in adoration, lost in wonder and praise. He knows repentance is not what we do in order to earn forgiveness; it is what we do because we have been forgiven. It serves as an expression of gratitude rather than an effort to earn forgiveness. Thus the sequence of forgiveness and then repentance, rather than repentance and then forgiveness, is crucial for understanding the gospel of grace.”
― Brennan Manning, The Ragamuffin Gospel

“And though it is true that the church must always dissociate itself from sin, it can never have any excuse for keeping any sinner at a distance”
― Brennan Manning, The Ragamuffin Gospel

“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