Brennan Manning Quotes About Shame

Quotes about: Shame

• 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

  Healing, Past, Light

• I have a word for you. I know your whole life story. I know every skeleton in your closet. I know every moment of sin, shame, dishonesty and degraded love that has darkened your past. Right now I know your shallow faith, your feeble prayer life, your inconsistent discipleship. And my word is this: I dare you to trust that I love you just as you are, and not as you should be. Because you’re never going to be as you should be.

  Brennan Manning

  Prayer, Love You, Past

• 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

  Real, Past, Grace

  Brennan Manning (2008). “The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out”, p.73, Multnomah

• Shame--what happened when my mother, the dragon, huffed and puffed and blew my self down.

  Brennan Manning

  Mother, Dragons, Self

  Brennan Manning, John Blase (2011). “All Is Grace: A Ragamuffin Memoir”, p.53, David C Cook

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