Love Quotes by Brennan Manning

Jesus hung out with ragamuffins,

— Brennan Manning

I have been seized by the power of a great affection.

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That which is denied cannot be healed.

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I asked for wonder, and He gave it to me.

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Prayer is first and foremost an act of love

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“Christ's anger is the storm-front of His love.”

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We are made for God, and nothing less will ever satisfy us

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Faith means wanting God and wanting to want nothing else.

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“I could more easily contain Niagara Falls in a tea cup than I can comprehend the wild, uncontainable love of God.”

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Define yourself radically as one beloved by God. This is the true self. Every other identity is illusion.

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Trust is that rare and priceless treasure that wins us the affection of our heavenly Father.

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In human beings, love is a quality, a high-prized virtue; in God, love is His identity.

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The secret of the mystery is: God is always greater. No matter how great we think Him to be, His love is…

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Trust is our gift back to God, and he finds it so enchanting that Jesus died for love of it

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

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All that is good is ours not by right but by the sheer bounty of a gracious God

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“TO BE GRATEFUL for an unanswered prayer, to give thanks in a state of interior desolation, to trust in the love of…

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Define yourself radically as one beloved by God. This is the true self. Every other identity is illusion. God's love for you…

— Brennan Manning

Be daring enough to be different, humble enough to make mistakes, wild enough to be burnt in the fire of love, real…

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Being the beloved is our identity, the core of our existence. It is not merely a lofty thought, an inspiring idea, or…

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We must go out into a desert of some kind (your backyard will do) and come into a personal experience of the…

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

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When absolute control and rigid obedience pose as love within the family and the local faith-community , we produce trained cowards rather…

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“Cultic worship is not only hypocritical but absolutely meaningless if it is not accompanied by love for other people; for in such…

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“When belonging to an elite group eclipses the love of God, when I draw life and meaning from any source other than…

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The love of Christ embraces all without exception. Fire of love, crazy over what You have made. Oh, divine Madman. (Prayer of…

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I have a word for you. I know your whole life story. I know every skeleton in your closet. I know every…

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Authentic faith leads us to treat others with unconditional seriousness and to a loving reverence for the mystery of the human personality.…

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The confessing church of American Ragamuffins needs to join Magdalene and Peter in witnessing that Christianity is not primarily a moral code…

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“When a person is evoked for who she is, not who she is not, the most often result will be the inner…

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This is the God of the gospel of grace. A God who, out of love for us, sent the only Son He…

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“I am flabbergasted by the widespread refusal across this land to think big about a loving God. Like nervous thoroughbreds being guided…

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“The philosophy of tough love is based on the conviction that no effective recovery can be initiated until a man admits that…

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For those who feel their lives are a grave disappointment to God, it requires enormous trust and reckless, raging confidence to accept…

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“[The] insistence on the absolutely indiscriminate nature of compassion within the Kingdom is the dominant perspective of almost all of Jesus' teaching.…

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“Because salvation is by grace through faith, I believe that among the countless number of people standing in front of the throne…

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“Thornton Wilder’s one-act play “The Angel That Troubled the Waters,” based on John 5:1-4, dramatizes the power of the pool of Bethesda…

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“Uncompromising trust in the love of God inspires us to thank God for the spiritual darkness that envelops us, for the loss…

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Grace abounds in contemporary movies, books, novels, films and music. If God is not in the whirlwind, He may be in a…

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“Imagine that Jesus is calling you today. He extends a second invitation to accept His Father's love. And maybe you answer, "Oh,…

— Brennan Manning