“You tell others about Me - that I am a loving God. Your words are glib. My words are written in the… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
God loves you unconditionally, as you are and not as you should be, because nobody is as they should be. — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
The trouble with our ideals is that if we live up to all of them, we become impossible to live with. — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
The only kind of love that helps anyone grow is unconditional love. — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
God is loving us - you and me - this moment, just as we are and not as we should be. — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
I could more easily contain Niagara Falls in a teacup than I can comprehend the wild, uncontainable love of God. — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
God is enough. That is the root of peace. When we start seeking something besides Him, we lose it. — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
There is an essential connection between experiencing God, loving God, and trusting God. You will trust God only as much as you… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
If in our hearts we really don't believe that God loves us as we are, if we are still tainted by the… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
“The nature of God’s love for us is outrageous. Why doesn’t this God of ours display some taste and discretion in dealing… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
We should be astonished at the goodness of God, stunned that He should bother to call us by name, our mouths wide… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
The engaged mind, illuminated by truth, awakens awareness; the engaged heart, affected by love, awakens passion. May I say once more -… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
The splendor of a human heart that trusts it is loved unconditionally gives God more pleasure than Westminster Cathedral, the Sistine Chapel,… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
“His consistent banging on the drums of God’s unconditional love sounded at a time when many of us had about “had it… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
Won't the awareness God loves us no matter what lead to spiritual laziness and moral laxity? Theoretically, this seems a reasonable fear,… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
“But trust in the God who loves consistently and faithfully nurtures confident, free disciples. A loving God fosters a loving people. “The… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
Justification by grace through faith' is the theologian's learned phrase for what Chesterton once called 'the furious love of G-d.' He is… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
“God's love is based on nothing, and the fact that it is based on nothing makes us secure. Were it based on… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
The outstretched arms of Jesus exclude no one, not the drunk in the doorway, the panhandler on the street, gays and lesbians… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“In a moment of naked honesty, ask yourself, 'Do I wholeheartedly trust that God likes me'... in this moment, right now, right… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
In explaining the growth of his faith, psychiatrist Gerald May writes, "I know that God is loving and that God’s loving is… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
“Larry Hein, who wrote the blessing: May all your expectations be frustrated, may all your plans be thwarted, may all your desires… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
May all your expectations be frustrated, may all your plans be thwarted, may all your desires be withered into nothingness, that you… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
Accepting the reality of our sinfulness means accepting our authentic self. Judas could not face his shadow; Peter could. The latter befriended the impostor… — Brennan Manning Copy Share
Trust is our gift back to God, and he finds it so enchanting that Jesus died for love of it — Brennan Manning Copy Share
Genuine self-acceptance is not derived from the power of positive thinking, mind games or pop psychology. IT IS AN ACT OF FAITH in the… — Brennan Manning Copy Share
“It is not objective proof of God’s existence that we want but the experience of God’s presence. That is the miracle we are really… — Brennan Manning Copy Share
“He who is alone with his sins is utterly alone. It may be that Christians, notwithstanding corporate worship, common prayer, and all their fellowship… — Brennan Manning Copy Share
God not only loves me as I am, but also knows me as I am. Because of this I don't need to apply spiritual… — Brennan Manning Copy Share
Grace abounds in contemporary movies, books, novels, films and music. If God is not in the whirlwind, He may be in a Woody Allen… — Brennan Manning Copy Share
My trust in God flows out of the experience of his loving me, day in and day out, whether the day is stormy or… — Brennan Manning Copy Share
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. — Brennan Manning Copy Share
May all your expectations be frustrated, may all your plans be thwarted, may all your desires be withered into nothingness, that you may experience… — Brennan Manning Copy Share
Our identity rests in God's relentless tenderness for us revealed in Jesus Christ. — Brennan Manning Copy Share
“When I get honest I admit that I am a bundle of paradoxes. I believe and I doubt, I hope and I get discouraged.… — Brennan Manning Copy Share
“At Sunday worship, as in every dimension of our existence, many of us pretend to believe we are sinners. Consequently, all we can do… — Brennan Manning Copy Share
“You tell others about Me - that I am a loving God. Your words are glib. My words are written in the blood of… — Brennan Manning Copy Share
