we unwittingly project onto God our own attitudes and feelings toward ourselves... But we cannot assume that He feels about us the way we feel about ourselves unless we love ourselves compassionately intensely and freely.
Brennan Manning
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The story goes that a public sinner was excommunicated and forbidden entry to the church. He took his woes to God. They wont let me in Lord because I am a sinner.
What are you complaining about said God. They wont let Me in either.
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At Sunday worship as in every dimension of our existence many of us pretend to believe we are sinners. Consequently all we can do is pretend we have been forgiven. As a result our whole spiritual life is pseudorepentance and pseudobliss.
- Brennan Manning