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Posers, Fakers, and Wannabes: Unmasking the Real You QUOTES

1 " [author quoting from his journal entry] "To feel safe is to stop living in my head and sink down into my heart and feel liked and accepted...not having to hide anymore and distract myself with books, television, movies, ice cream, shallow conversation...staying in the present moment and not escaping into the past or projecting into the future, alert and attentive to the now...feeling relaxed and not nervous or jittery...no need to impress or dazzle others or draw attention to myself...Unselfconscious, a new way of being with myself, a new way of being in the world...calm, unafraid, no anxiety about what's going to happen next...loved and valued...just being together as an end in itself." (p. 31) "

― Brennan Manning , Posers, Fakers, and Wannabes: Unmasking the Real You

2 " A life of praying means death to every identity that does not come from God. "

― Brennan Manning , Posers, Fakers, and Wannabes: Unmasking the Real You

3 " What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us.' A. W. Tozer wrote that, talking about how people project their opinions about God onto the world. He was asking those of us who believe in God- which is most of us - what God it is we believe in. Good question.

...we project onto God our worst attitudes and feelings about ourselves. As someone famously remarked, 'God made us in his own image and we have more than returned the compliment.' If we feel hatred for ourselves, it only makes sense that God hates us. Right?

No, not so much.

It's no good assuming God feels about us the way we feel about ourselves intensely and freely with complete wisdom and never-ending compassion. If the Christian story is true, the God who shows his love for us everywhere, in everything, expresses that love completely and finally in what Jesus did for us. Deal done -- can't add to, can't subtract from it. Any questions?"(pp. 20-21) "

― Brennan Manning , Posers, Fakers, and Wannabes: Unmasking the Real You

4 " Julian of Norwich...wrote: 'Some of us believe that God is almighty and can do everything; and that he is all-wise and may do everything; but that he is all-love and will do everything -- there we draw back. As I see it, this ignorance is the greatest of all hindrances to God's lovers.' Where do we thing we are going when we draw back from God?

The tiny gods we worship when we draw back from the true God are idols we've made to look just like us. It takes a profound conversion to accept that God is relentlessly tender and compassionate toward us just as we are - and not in spite of our sins and faults, but in them and through them. As Anne Lamott sees it, 'The secret is that God loves us exactly the way we are and that he loves us too much to let us stay like this..." (p. 21) "

― Brennan Manning , Posers, Fakers, and Wannabes: Unmasking the Real You

5 " The more time you spend in the presence of Jesus, the less praise you'll need from others because you will have discovered for yourself that he is Enough. And in the Presence, you will delight in the discovery of what it means to live by grace and not by posing. "

― Brennan Manning , Posers, Fakers, and Wannabes: Unmasking the Real You