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"Sin and forgiveness and falling and getting back up and losing the pearl of great price in the couch..." — Brennan Manning

Sin and forgiveness and falling and getting back up and losing the pearl of great price in the couch cushions but then finding it again, and again, and again? Those are the stumbling steps to becoming Real, the only script that's really worth following in this world or the one that's coming.
Brennan Manning
Brennan Manning Author • American
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