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A Selection of inspirational quotes taken from The Ragamuffin Gospel.

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A collection of quotes from The Ragamuffin Gospel, by Brennan Manning . Presentation by Ken du Pisanie

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For the first time in our walks of faith, we found something so old

and so basic that it seemed stunningly new and profound. We are all ragamuffins, and we are all endlessly wrapped in God’s arms

of grace.

- Michael W. Smith

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Though lip service is paid to the gospel of grace, many Christians

live as if it is only personal discipline and self-denial that will

mould the perfect me.

- Brennan Manning

Though lip service is paid to the gospel of grace, many Christians

live as if it is only personal discipline and self-denial that will

mould the perfect me.

- Brennan Manning

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Our huffing and puffing to impress God, our scrambling for brownie points, our thrashing about trying to fix ourselves while hiding our

pettiness and wallowing in guilt are nauseating to God and are a flat denial of the

gospel of grace.

- Brennan Manning

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Here is a revelation bright as the evening star: Jesus comes for sinners, for those as outcast as tax collectors and for those caught up in squalid choices and failed dreams. He comes for the corporate executives, street people, superstars, farmers, hookers, addicts, IRS agents, AIDS victims, and even used car salesmen.

- Brennan Manning

Here is a revelation bright as the evening star: Jesus comes for sinners, for those as outcast as tax collectors and for those caught up in squalid choices and failed dreams. He comes for the corporate executives, street people, superstars, farmers, hookers, addicts, IRS agents, AIDS victims, and even used car salesmen.

- Brennan Manning

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It remains a startling story to those who never understand that the men and women who are truly filled with light are those who have gazed deeply into the darkness of their

imperfect existence.- Brennan Manning

It remains a startling story to those who never understand that the men and women who are truly filled with light are those who have gazed deeply into the darkness of their

imperfect existence.- Brennan Manning

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Grace substitutes a full, childlike and delighted acceptance of our need, a joy in total dependence. The good man is sorry for the sins which have increased his need. He is not entirely sorry for the fresh need they have produced.

- C.S. Lewis

Grace substitutes a full, childlike and delighted acceptance of our need, a joy in total dependence. The good man is sorry for the sins which have increased his need. He is not entirely sorry for the fresh need they have produced.

- C.S. Lewis

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A saint is not someone who is good but who experiences the goodness of God.

- Thomas Merton

A saint is not someone who is good but who experiences the goodness of God.

- Thomas Merton

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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

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

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Grace strikes us when we are in great pain and restlessness. It strikes us when we walk through the dark valley of meaningless and empty life…it strikes us when, year after year, the longed-for perfection does not appear, when the old compulsions reign within us as they have for decades, when despair destroys all joy and courage.

- Paul Tillich

Grace strikes us when we are in great pain and restlessness. It strikes us when we walk through the dark valley of meaningless and empty life…it strikes us when, year after year, the longed-for perfection does not appear, when the old compulsions reign within us as they have for decades, when despair destroys all joy and courage.

- Paul Tillich

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Never confuse your perception of yourself with the mystery that you really are accepted.

- Brennan Manning

Never confuse your perception of yourself with the mystery that you really are accepted.

- Brennan Manning

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Unlike Quasimodo, the hunchback of Notre Dame, we need not hide all that is ugly and repulsive in us. Jesus came not for the super-spiritual but for the wobbly and weak-kneed who know they don’t have it all together and who are not too proud to accept the handout of amazin’ grace. As we glance up, we are astonished to find the eyes of Jesus open with wonder, deep with understanding, and gentle with compassion.

- Brennan Manning

Unlike Quasimodo, the hunchback of Notre Dame, we need not hide all that is ugly and repulsive in us. Jesus came not for the super-spiritual but for the wobbly and weak-kneed who know they don’t have it all together and who are not too proud to accept the handout of amazin’ grace. As we glance up, we are astonished to find the eyes of Jesus open with wonder, deep with understanding, and gentle with compassion.

- Brennan Manning

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Something is radically wrong when the local church rejects a person accepted by Jesus; when a harsh, judgmental and unforgiving sentence is passed on homosexuals; when a divorcee is denied communion; when the child of a prostitute is refused baptism; when the unlaicizedpriest is forbidden the sacraments. Jesus comes to the ungodly, even on Sunday morning. He’s coming ends ungodliness and makes us worthy.

- Brennan Manning

Something is radically wrong when the local church rejects a person accepted by Jesus; when a harsh, judgmental and unforgiving sentence is passed on homosexuals; when a divorcee is denied communion; when the child of a prostitute is refused baptism; when the unlaicizedpriest is forbidden the sacraments. Jesus comes to the ungodly, even on Sunday morning. He’s coming ends ungodliness and makes us worthy.

- Brennan Manning

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This is the gospel of grace. God, who out of love for us, sent the only Son He ever had wrapped in our skin. He learned how to walk, stumbled and fell, cried for his milk, sweated blood in the night, was lashed with a whip and showered with spit, was fixed to a cross and died whispering forgiveness on us all.

- Brennan Manning

This is the gospel of grace. God, who out of love for us, sent the only Son He ever had wrapped in our skin. He learned how to walk, stumbled and fell, cried for his milk, sweated blood in the night, was lashed with a whip and showered with spit, was fixed to a cross and died whispering forgiveness on us all.

- Brennan Manning

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Though it is true that the church must always disassociate itself from sin, it can never have any excuse for keeping sinners at a distance.

- Brennan Manning

Though it is true that the church must always disassociate itself from sin, it can never have any excuse for keeping sinners at a distance.

- Brennan Manning

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Often hobbling through our church doors on Sunday morning come grace on crutches – sinners still unable to throw away their false supports and stand upright in the freedom of the children of God. Yet, their mere presence…is a flickering candle representing a desire to maintain contact with God. To douse the flame is to plunge them into a world of spiritual darkness.

- Brennan Manning

Often hobbling through our church doors on Sunday morning come grace on crutches – sinners still unable to throw away their false supports and stand upright in the freedom of the children of God. Yet, their mere presence…is a flickering candle representing a desire to maintain contact with God. To douse the flame is to plunge them into a world of spiritual darkness.

- Brennan Manning

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The greatest honour we can give Almighty God is to live gladly because of the knowledge of his love.

- Julian of Norwich

The greatest honour we can give Almighty God is to live gladly because of the knowledge of his love.

- Julian of Norwich

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Where sin abounded, grace has more abounded; and so, just as sin reigned wherever there was death, so grace will bring eternal life thanks to the righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ our Lord.

- The Bible (Rom. 5:20-21)

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Genuine self-acceptance is not derived from the power of positive thinking, mind- games, or pop psychology. It is an act of faith in the grace of God.

- Brennan Manning

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All quotes taken from The Ragamuffin Gospel,

by Brennan Manning. (1990). Published by

Multnomah Publishers, Oregon.

This presentation is not for commercial gain.

Presentation by Ken du Pisaniewww.chroniclesofaragamuffin.blogspot.com

[email protected]

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