If asked whether I am finally letting God love me, just as I am, I would answer, 'No, but I'm trying. — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
“Christians find it easier to believe that God exists than that God loves them.” — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
In human beings, love is a quality, a high-prized virtue; in God, love is His identity. — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
God loves us as we are...not as we ought to be. because we are never going to be as we ought to… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
Do you honestly believe God likes you, not just loves you because theologically God has to love you? — 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
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
We must go out into a desert of some kind (your backyard will do) and come into a personal experience of the… — 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
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
“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
Do you believe that the God of Jesus loves you beyond worthiness and unworthiness, beyond fidelity and infidelity—that he loves you in… — 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
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
“My message, unchanged for more than fifty years, is this: God loves you unconditionally, as you are and not as you should… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
The Ragamuffin rabble are the unsung assembly of saved sinners who are little in their own sight, conscious of their brokenness and… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
“Julian of Norwich...wrote: 'Some of us believe that God is almighty and can do everything; and that he is all-wise and may… — 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
