When we wallow in guilt, remorse, and shame over real or imagined sins of the past, we are disdaining God's gift of grace. (Brennan Manning)

When we wallow in guilt, remorse, and shame over real or imagined sins of the past, we are disdaining God's gift of grace.

Brennan Manning

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