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Contemplation is meeting all the reality you can bear.

Brian D. McLaren • Life After Doom

image of God

Brian Fikkert • When Helping Hurts: How to Alleviate Poverty Without Hurting the Poor . . . and Yourself

mercy is “twice blessed. It blesses him that gives and him that takes.”

John Mordechai Gottman • The Seven Principles For Making Marriage Work: A practical guide from the international bestselling relationship expert

proclaiming the message of “awareness,” seeing the light we are to ourselves and to others, recognizing we are better than we know.

J. Francis Stroud • Awareness: Conversations with the Masters

Brennan Manning wrote, “Anyone God uses significantly is always deeply wounded . . . We are, each and every one of us, insignificant people whom God has called and graced to use in a significant way . . . On the last day, Jesus will look us over not for medals, diplomas, or honors, but for scars.”

Tim Mackie • Praying Like Monks, Living Like Fools

surrender her need to be seen as a success.

Peter Scazzero • Emotionally Healthy Discipleship: Moving from Shallow Christianity to Deep Transformation

When we unmask the human facade of self-delusion, we realize just how utterly unlike Christ we are in the deepest recesses of our hearts.

John Mark Comer • Practicing the Way: Be with Jesus. Become like him. Do as he did.

Forgiveness given and forgiveness received are always the pure work of uncreated grace. Such unearned and undeserved forgiveness is necessary to break down the quid pro quo world that I call meritocracy. Only when we experience undeserved love does this inward and outward flow begin to happen. Before that, we are dry, dead cisterns. Before that, we... See more

Forgiveness and Freedom

“Let me receive your love and pour it out on these people so that I can represent you every minute of the day.”