Brennan Manning Quotes

False gods - the gods of human understanding - despise sinners, but the Father of Jesus loves all, no matter what they do. But of course this is almost too incredible for us to accept.

Stop comparing or boast at your victories. He was referring to enormous vitality and strength of God of Jesus seeking union with us. The living acts of a Christian become somehow the acts of Christ.

Without exposure to potential failure, there is no risk.

Though it is true that the church must always dissociate itself from sin, it can never have any excuse for keeping any sinner at a distance.

No man can adequately reach and explain a single word of God with all his words

Do the truth quietly without display.

The Word we study has to be the Word we pray.

Hope your wildest hopes, dream your maddest dreams, imagine your most fantastic fantasies. Where your hopes and your dreams and your imagination leave off, the love of my Heavenly Father only begins.

Jesus hung out with ragamuffins.

There is an extraordinary power in storytelling that stirs the imagination and makes an indelible impression on the mind.

The ancient spiritual tradition is that God gives himself fully to us in silence and solitude.

God loves us as we are...not as we ought to be. because we are never going to be as we ought to be." --Brennan Manning

God is a kooky God who can scarcely bear to be without us.

Too many Christians are living in a house of fear and not in the house of love.

Shame--what happened when my mother, the dragon, huffed and puffed and blew my self down.

Authentic Christianity should lead to maturity, personality, and reality. It should fashion whole men and women living lives of love and communion

Faith will become vision, hope will become possession, but the love of Jesus Christ that is stronger than death endures forever. In the end, it is the only thing you can hang onto.

I you think you've done it, then you're wrong. Because you're not finished until you have achieved everything that you never thought you could.

When being is divorced from doing, pious thoughts become an adequate substitute for washing dirty feet.

A trusting heart is forgiven and, in turn, forgives.

The life of Jesus suggests that to be like Abba is to show compassion.

We can only sense ourselves and our world valued and cherished by God when we feel valued and cherished by others '.

On one level, a roomful of men is always a dangerous thing. Competition is usually in the air, so the potential for violence is always nearby.

The only cure for suffering is to face it head on, grasp it round the neck and use it.

But if I've learned anything about the world of grace, it's that failure is always a chance for a do-over.

And though it is true that the church must always dissociate itself from sin, it can never have any excuse for keeping any sinner at a distance