Christianity Quotes by Brennan Manning

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

— Brennan Manning

We miss Jesus' point entirely when we use His words as weapons against others.

— Brennan Manning

“Christians find it easier to believe that God exists than that God loves them.”

— Brennan Manning

“Freedom is the cornerstone of Christianity.”

— Brennan Manning

By and large, the gospel of grace is neither proclaimed, understood, nor lived.

— Brennan Manning

The ragamuffin gospel says we can't lose, because we have nothing to lose.

— Brennan Manning

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

— Brennan Manning

The gospel declares that no matter how dutiful or prayerful we are, we can't save ourselves. What Jesus did was sufficient.

— Brennan Manning

“The mature Christians I have met along the way are those who have failed and have learned to live gracefully with their…

— Brennan Manning

On the last day, Jesus will look us over not for medals, diplomas, or honors, but for scars.

— Brennan Manning

In my experience, self-hatred is the dominant malaise crippling Christians and stifling their growth in the Holy Spirit.

— Brennan Manning

Without fear I can acknowledge that the authentic Christian tension is not between life and death, but between life and life.

— Brennan Manning

The gospel will persuade no one unless it has so convicted us that we are transformed by it.

— Brennan Manning

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

— Brennan Manning

The greatest single cause of atheism in the world today is Christians, who acknowledge Jesus with their lips and walk out the…

— Brennan Manning

The loss of transcendence has left in its wake the flotsam of distrustful, cynical Christians, angry at a capricious God, and the…

— Brennan Manning

“The bending of the mind by the powers of this world has twisted the gospel of grace into religious bondage and distorted…

— Brennan Manning

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

— Brennan Manning

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

— Brennan Manning

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

— Brennan Manning

“Suffering, failure, loneliness, sorrow, discouragement, and death will be part of your journey, but the Kingdom of God will conquer all these…

— Brennan Manning

“The question had become not “What does Jesus say?” but “What does the Church say?” This question is still being asked today.…

— Brennan Manning

Sheer scholarship alone cannot reveal to us the gospel of grace. We must never allow the authority of books, institutions, or leaders…

— Brennan Manning

“We can embrace our whole life story in the knowledge that we have been graced and made beautiful by the providence of…

— Brennan Manning

“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

“On a blustery October night in a church outside Minneapolis, several hundred believers had gathered for a three-day seminar. I began with…

— Brennan Manning

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

— Brennan Manning

“The gospel is absurd and the life of Jesus is meaningless unless we believe that He lived, died, and rose again with…

— Brennan Manning

“Often people request prayers for deliverance, inner healing, or physical healing. But more frequently they simply want a man or woman to…

— Brennan Manning

The North American Church is at a critical juncture. The gospel of grace is being confused and compromised by silence, seduction, and…

— Brennan Manning

“The Word we study has to be the Word we pray. My personal experience of the relentless tenderness of God came not…

— Brennan Manning

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

— Brennan Manning

“Today we need small bands of people who take the gospel at face value, who realize what God is doing in our…

— Brennan Manning

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

— Brennan Manning

The Good News of the gospel of grace cries out: We are all, equally, privileged but unentitled beggars at the door of…

— Brennan Manning

“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

The gospel of grace nullifies our adulation of televangelists, charismatic superstars, and local church heroes. It obliterates the two-class citizenship theory operative…

— Brennan Manning

Assured of your salvation by the unique grace of our Lord Jesus Christ" is the heartbeat of the gospel, joyful liberation from…

— Brennan Manning

Christianity doesn’t deny the reality of suffering and evil… Our hope… is not based on the idea that we are going to…

— Brennan Manning

“repentance is not what we do in order to earn forgiveness; it is what we do because we have been forgiven. It…

— Brennan Manning