“He who is alone with his sins is utterly alone. It may be that Christians, notwithstanding corporate worship, common prayer, and all… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
“The poor man and woman of the gospel have made peace with their flawed existence. They are aware of their lack 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
“repentance is not what we do in order to earn forgiveness; it is what we do because we have been forgiven. It… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
The gospel will persuade no one unless it has so convicted us that we are transformed by it. — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
The ragamuffin gospel says we can't lose, because we have nothing to lose. — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
“How is it then that we’ve come to imagine that Christianity consists primarily in what we do for God? How has this… — 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
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
“We can embrace our whole life story in the knowledge that we have been graced and made beautiful by the providence of… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
The Good News of the gospel of grace cries out: We are all, equally, privileged but unentitled beggars at the door of… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
“I am flabbergasted by the widespread refusal across this land to think big about a loving God. Like nervous thoroughbreds being guided… — 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
“Today we need small bands of people who take the gospel at face value, who realize what God is doing in our… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
“Christians find it easier to believe that God exists than that God loves them.” — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
Authentic Christianity should lead to maturity, personality, and reality. It should fashion whole men and women living lives of love and communion — 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 of grace calls us to sing of the everyday mystery of intimacy with God instead of always seeking for miracles… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
Authentic faith leads us to treat others with unconditional seriousness and to a loving reverence for the mystery of the human personality.… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
This is the God of the gospel of grace. A God who, out of love for us, sent the only Son He… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
The North American Church is at a critical juncture. The gospel of grace is being confused and compromised by silence, seduction, and… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
Our huffing and puffing to impress God, our scrambling for brownie points, our thrashing about trying to fix ourselves while hiding our… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
“The bending of the mind by the powers of this world has twisted the gospel of grace into religious bondage and distorted… — 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
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
