Great Quotes from the Ragamuffin Gospel

Slide 1: PDF Created with deskPDF PDF Writer - Trial :: http://www.docudesk.com from www.chroniclesofaragamuffin.blogspot.com A collection of quotes from The Ragamuffin Gospel, by Brennan Manning . Presentation by Ken du Pisanie

Slide 2: PDF Created with deskPDF PDF Writer - Trial :: http://www.docudesk.com 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

Slide 3: PDF Created with deskPDF PDF Writer - Trial :: http://www.docudesk.com 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

Slide 4: Our huffing and puffing to impress God, our scrambling for brownie points, our thrashing PDF Created with deskPDF PDF Writer - Trial :: http://www.docudesk.com 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

Slide 5: PDF Created with deskPDF PDF Writer - Trial :: http://www.docudesk.com 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

Slide 6: PDF Created with deskPDF PDF Writer - Trial :: http://www.docudesk.com 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

Slide 7: PDF Created with deskPDF PDF Writer - Trial :: http://www.docudesk.com 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

Slide 8: PDF Created with deskPDF PDF Writer - Trial :: http://www.docudesk.com A saint is not someone who is good but who experiences the goodness of God. - Thomas Merton

Slide 9: PDF Created with deskPDF PDF Writer - Trial :: http://www.docudesk.com 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

Slide 10: PDF Created with deskPDF PDF Writer - Trial :: http://www.docudesk.com 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

Slide 11: Never confuse your perception of yourself with PDF Created with deskPDF PDF Writer - Trial :: http://www.docudesk.com the mystery that you really are accepted. - Brennan Manning

Slide 12: Unlike Quasimodo, the hunchback of PDF Created with deskPDF PDF Writer - Trial :: http://www.docudesk.com 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

Slide 13: Something is radically wrong when the PDF Created with deskPDF PDF Writer - Trial :: http://www.docudesk.com 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 unlaicized priest is forbidden the sacraments. Jesus comes to the ungodly, even on Sunday morning. He’s coming ends ungodliness and makes us worthy. - Brennan Manning

Slide 14: PDF Created with deskPDF PDF Writer - Trial :: http://www.docudesk.com 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

Slide 15: PDF Created with deskPDF PDF Writer - Trial :: http://www.docudesk.com 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

Slide 16: PDF Created with deskPDF PDF Writer - Trial :: http://www.docudesk.com 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

Slide 17: The greatest honour we can give The greatest honour we can give Almighty God is to live gladly because Almighty God is to live gladly because PDF Created with deskPDF PDF Writer - Trial :: http://www.docudesk.com of the knowledge of his love. of the knowledge of his love. - Julian of Norwich - Julian of Norwich

Slide 18: Where sin abounded, grace has more abounded; PDF Created with deskPDF PDF Writer - Trial :: http://www.docudesk.com 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)

Slide 19: Genuine self-acceptance is not derived from the power of positive thinking, PDF Created with deskPDF PDF Writer - Trial :: http://www.docudesk.com mind- games, or pop psychology. It is an act of faith in the grace of God. - Brennan Manning

Slide 20: All quotes taken from The Ragamuffin Gospel, PDF Created with deskPDF PDF Writer - Trial :: http://www.docudesk.com by Brennan Manning. (1990). Published by Multnomah Publishers, Oregon. This presentation is not for commercial gain. Presentation by Ken du Pisanie www.chroniclesofaragamuffin.blogspot.com ken@reallife.co.za