“Christians find it easier to believe that God exists than that God loves them.” — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
Too many Christians are living in a house of fear and not in the house of love. — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
For me the most radical demand of Christian faith lies in summoning the courage to say yes to the present risenness of… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
Without fear I can acknowledge that the authentic Christian tension is not between life and death, but between life and life. — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
On the last day, Jesus will look us over not for medals, diplomas, or honors, but for scars. — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
The loss of transcendence has left in its wake the flotsam of distrustful, cynical Christians, angry at a capricious God, and the… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
The greatest single cause of atheism in the world today is Christians, who acknowledge Jesus with their lips and walk out the… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
When absolute control and rigid obedience pose as love within the family and the local faith-community , we produce trained cowards rather… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
Christianity happens when men and women accept with unwavering trust that their sins have been not only forgiven, but forgotten, washed away… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
Stop comparing or boast at your victories. He was referring to enormous vitality and strength of God of Jesus seeking union with… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
The fierce words of Jesus addressed to the Pharisees of His day stretch across the bands of time. Today they are directed… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
The noonday devil of the Christian life is the temptation to lose the inner self while preserving the shell of edifying behavior.… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God... It is a strange fact that Christians and even ministers… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
Let us be bold enough to ask ourselves as Christians whether the Church of the Lord Jesus in the United States has… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
I am deeply distressed by what I only can call in our Christian culture the idolatry of the Scriptures. For many Christians,… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
“One spiritual writer has observed that human beings are born with two diseases: life, from which we die; and hope, which says… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
“The gospel is absurd and the life of Jesus is meaningless unless we believe that He lived, died, and rose again with… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
The Christian with depth is the person who has failed and who has learned to live with it. — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
In my experience, self-hatred is the dominant malaise crippling Christians and stifling their growth in the Holy Spirit. — 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
“For the Christian one dislocating, self-impoverishing hour spent with a child living in a broken-down dump is worth more than all the… — 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 Image
Trust is our gift back to God, and he finds it so enchanting that Jesus died for love of it — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Our identity rests in God's relentless tenderness for us revealed in Jesus Christ. — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
