--- title: "14 Gospel Grace Quotes By Brennan Manning" description: "14 Gospel Grace quotes by Brennan Manning. Plus more from Brennan Manning and more Gospel Grace sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0f0/brennan-manning-959_christianity_by-and-large-the-gospel-of-grace-is-neit_1681830.png" --- > [By and large, the gospel of grace is neither proclaimed, understood, nor lived.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brennan-manning/by-and-large-the-gospel-of-grace-is-neither-proclaimed-understood-nor/) [Brennan Manning](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brennan-manning/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0f0/brennan-manning-959_christianity_by-and-large-the-gospel-of-grace-is-neit_1681830.png) > [The Good News of the gospel of grace cries out: We are all, equally, privileged but unentitled beggars at the door of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brennan-manning/the-good-news-of-the-gospel-of-grace-cries-out-we-are-all-equally/) [Brennan Manning](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brennan-manning/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/67e/brennan-manning-959_beggar_the-good-news-of-the-gospel-of-grace-cri_771979.png) > [Our huffing and puffing to impress God, our scrambling for brownie points, our thrashing about trying to fix ourselves while hiding our…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brennan-manning/our-huffing-and-puffing-to-impress-god-our-scrambling-for-brownie/) [Brennan Manning](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brennan-manning/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f1b/brennan-manning-959_brownies_our-huffing-and-puffing-to-impress-god-o_1096789.jpg) > [“The bending of the mind by the powers of this world has twisted the gospel of grace into religious bondage and distorted…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brennan-manning/the-bending-of-the-mind-by-the-powers-of-this-world-has-twisted-the/) [Brennan Manning](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brennan-manning/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/59e/brennan-manning-959_christian-community_the-bending-of-the-mind-by-the-powers-of_1111453.png) > [Nevertheless, the central affirmation of the Reformation stands: through no merit of ours, but by his mercy, WE HAVE BEEN RESTORED to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brennan-manning/nevertheless-the-central-affirmation-of-the-reformation-stands/) [Brennan Manning](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brennan-manning/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c0e/brennan-manning-959_affirmation_nevertheless-the-central-affirmation-of_2344481.jpg) > [“Our huffing and puffing to impress God, our scrambling for brownie points, our thrashing about trying to fix ourselves while hiding our…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brennan-manning/our-huffing-and-puffing-to-impress-god-our-scrambling-for-brownie-2/) [Brennan Manning](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brennan-manning/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/45a/brennan-manning-959_christian-life_our-huffing-and-puffing-to-impress-god-o_1854920.png) > [“The gospel of grace calls us to sing of the everyday mystery of intimacy with God instead of always seeking for miracles…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brennan-manning/the-gospel-of-grace-calls-us-to-sing-of-the-everyday-mystery-of/) [Brennan Manning](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brennan-manning/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/995/brennan-manning-959_bad-weather_the-gospel-of-grace-calls-us-to-sing-of_990708.png) > [“On a blustery October night in a church outside Minneapolis, several hundred believers had gathered for a three-day seminar. I began with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brennan-manning/on-a-blustery-october-night-in-a-church-outside-minneapolis-several/) [Brennan Manning](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brennan-manning/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2e4/brennan-manning-959_bible_on-a-blustery-october-night-in-a-church_1410195.jpg) > [Sheer scholarship alone cannot reveal to us the gospel of grace. We must never allow the authority of books, institutions, or leaders…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brennan-manning/sheer-scholarship-alone-cannot-reveal-to-us-the-gospel-of-grace-we/) [Brennan Manning](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brennan-manning/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1d0/brennan-manning-959_agents_sheer-scholarship-alone-cannot-reveal-to_2973435.jpg) > [The gospel of grace nullifies our adulation of televangelists, charismatic superstars, and local church heroes. It obliterates the two-class citizenship theory operative…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brennan-manning/the-gospel-of-grace-nullifies-our-adulation-of-televangelists/) [Brennan Manning](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brennan-manning/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/01e/brennan-manning-959_adulation_the-gospel-of-grace-nullifies-our-adulat_1426868.png) > [This is the God of the gospel of grace. A God who, out of love for us, sent the only Son He…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brennan-manning/this-is-the-god-of-the-gospel-of-grace-a-god-who-out-of-love-for-us/) [Brennan Manning](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brennan-manning/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/65d/brennan-manning-959_blood_this-is-the-god-of-the-gospel-of-grace-a_1037750.jpg) > [“The Word we study has to be the Word we pray. My personal experience of the relentless tenderness of God came not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brennan-manning/the-word-we-study-has-to-be-the-word-we-pray-my-personal-experience/) [Brennan Manning](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brennan-manning/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/297/brennan-manning-959_christianity_the-word-we-study-has-to-be-the-word-we_2748185.png) > [“Because salvation is by grace through faith, I believe that among the countless number of people standing in front of the throne…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brennan-manning/because-salvation-is-by-grace-through-faith-i-believe-that-among-the/) [Brennan Manning](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brennan-manning/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d3c/brennan-manning-959_christianity_because-salvation-is-by-grace-through-fa_2993252.png) > [“When I get honest, I admit I am a bundle of paradoxes. I believe and I doubt, I hope and get discouraged,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brennan-manning/when-i-get-honest-i-admit-i-am-a-bundle-of-paradoxes-i-believe-and-i/) [Brennan Manning](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brennan-manning/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c4b/brennan-manning-959_feeling-good_when-i-get-honest-i-admit-i-am-a-bundle_2512858.jpg) ## More by Brennan Manning > [Accepting the reality of our sinfulness means accepting our authentic self. Judas could not face his shadow; Peter could. The latter befriended the impostor…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brennan-manning/accepting-the-reality-of-our-sinfulness-means-accepting-our-authentic/) [Brennan Manning](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brennan-manning/) > [Trust is our gift back to God, and he finds it so enchanting that Jesus died for love of it](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brennan-manning/trust-is-our-gift-back-to-god-and-he-finds-it-so-enchanting-that/) [Brennan Manning](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brennan-manning/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brennan-manning/genuine-self-acceptance-is-not-derived-from-the-power-of-positive/) [Brennan Manning](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brennan-manning/) > [That which is denied cannot be healed.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brennan-manning/that-which-is-denied-cannot-be-healed/) [Brennan Manning](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brennan-manning/) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brennan-manning/it-is-not-objective-proof-of-god-s-existence-that-we-want-but-the/) [Brennan Manning](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brennan-manning/) > [“He who is alone with his sins is utterly alone. It may be that Christians, notwithstanding corporate worship, common prayer, and all their fellowship…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brennan-manning/he-who-is-alone-with-his-sins-is-utterly-alone-it-may-be-that/) [Brennan Manning](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brennan-manning/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brennan-manning/god-not-only-loves-me-as-i-am-but-also-knows-me-as-i-am-because-of/) [Brennan Manning](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brennan-manning/) > [Grace abounds in contemporary movies, books, novels, films and music. If God is not in the whirlwind, He may be in a Woody Allen…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brennan-manning/grace-abounds-in-contemporary-movies-books-novels-films-and-music-if/) [Brennan Manning](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brennan-manning/) > [My trust in God flows out of the experience of his loving me, day in and day out, whether the day is stormy or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brennan-manning/my-trust-in-god-flows-out-of-the-experience-of-his-loving-me-day-in/) [Brennan Manning](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brennan-manning/) > [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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brennan-manning/i-you-think-you-ve-done-it-then-you-re-wrong-because-you-re-not/) [Brennan Manning](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brennan-manning/) > [May all your expectations be frustrated, may all your plans be thwarted, may all your desires be withered into nothingness, that you may experience…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brennan-manning/may-all-your-expectations-be-frustrated-may-all-your-plans-be/) [Brennan Manning](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brennan-manning/) > [Our identity rests in God's relentless tenderness for us revealed in Jesus Christ.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brennan-manning/our-identity-rests-in-god-s-relentless-tenderness-for-us-revealed-in/) [Brennan Manning](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brennan-manning/) > [“When I get honest I admit that I am a bundle of paradoxes. I believe and I doubt, I hope and I get discouraged.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brennan-manning/when-i-get-honest-i-admit-that-i-am-a-bundle-of-paradoxes-i-believe/) [Brennan Manning](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brennan-manning/) > [“At Sunday worship, as in every dimension of our existence, many of us pretend to believe we are sinners. Consequently, all we can do…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brennan-manning/at-sunday-worship-as-in-every-dimension-of-our-existence-many-of-us/) [Brennan Manning](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brennan-manning/) > [“You tell others about Me - that I am a loving God. Your words are glib. My words are written in the blood of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brennan-manning/you-tell-others-about-me-that-i-am-a-loving-god-your-words-are-glib/) [Brennan Manning](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brennan-manning/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/gospel-grace/brennan-manning/#itemlist", "name": "14 Gospel Grace Quotes By Brennan Manning", "numberOfItems": 14, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "By and large, the gospel of grace is neither proclaimed, understood, nor lived.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Brennan Manning" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brennan-manning/by-and-large-the-gospel-of-grace-is-neither-proclaimed-understood-nor/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0f0/brennan-manning-959_christianity_by-and-large-the-gospel-of-grace-is-neit_1681830.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0f0/brennan-manning-959_christianity_by-and-large-the-gospel-of-grace-is-neit_1681830.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0f0/brennan-manning-959_christianity_by-and-large-the-gospel-of-grace-is-neit_1681830.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“By and large, the gospel of grace is neither proclaimed, understood, nor lived.” — Brennan Manning", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The Good News of the gospel of grace cries out: We are all, equally, privileged but unentitled beggars at the door of God's mercy!", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Brennan Manning" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brennan-manning/the-good-news-of-the-gospel-of-grace-cries-out-we-are-all-equally/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/67e/brennan-manning-959_beggar_the-good-news-of-the-gospel-of-grace-cri_771979.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/67e/brennan-manning-959_beggar_the-good-news-of-the-gospel-of-grace-cri_771979.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/67e/brennan-manning-959_beggar_the-good-news-of-the-gospel-of-grace-cri_771979.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“The Good News of the gospel of grace cries out: We are all, equally, privileged but unentitled beggars at…” — Brennan Manning", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Our huffing and puffing to impress God, our scrambling for brownie points, our thrashing about trying to fix ourselves while hiding our pettiness and wallowing in guilt are nauseating to God and are a flat denial of the gospel of grace.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Brennan Manning" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brennan-manning/our-huffing-and-puffing-to-impress-god-our-scrambling-for-brownie/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f1b/brennan-manning-959_brownies_our-huffing-and-puffing-to-impress-god-o_1096789.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f1b/brennan-manning-959_brownies_our-huffing-and-puffing-to-impress-god-o_1096789.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f1b/brennan-manning-959_brownies_our-huffing-and-puffing-to-impress-god-o_1096789.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Our huffing and puffing to impress God, our scrambling for brownie points, our thrashing about trying to fix…” — Brennan Manning", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“The bending of the mind by the powers of this world has twisted the gospel of grace into religious bondage and distorted the image of God into an eternal, small-minded bookkeeper. 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We must never allow the authority of books, institutions, or leaders to replace the authority of KNOWING Jesus Christ personally and directly. 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All that is good is ours, not by right, but by the sheer bounty of a gracious God.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Brennan Manning" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brennan-manning/the-gospel-of-grace-nullifies-our-adulation-of-televangelists/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/01e/brennan-manning-959_adulation_the-gospel-of-grace-nullifies-our-adulat_1426868.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/01e/brennan-manning-959_adulation_the-gospel-of-grace-nullifies-our-adulat_1426868.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/01e/brennan-manning-959_adulation_the-gospel-of-grace-nullifies-our-adulat_1426868.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“The gospel of grace nullifies our adulation of televangelists, charismatic superstars, and local church…” — Brennan Manning", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 11, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "This is the God of the gospel of grace. A God who, out of love for us, sent the only Son He ever had wrapped in our skin. He learned how to walk, stumbled and fell, cried for His milk, sweated blood in the night, was lashed with a whip and showered with spit, was fixed to a cross, and died whispering forgiveness on us all.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Brennan Manning" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brennan-manning/this-is-the-god-of-the-gospel-of-grace-a-god-who-out-of-love-for-us/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/65d/brennan-manning-959_blood_this-is-the-god-of-the-gospel-of-grace-a_1037750.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/65d/brennan-manning-959_blood_this-is-the-god-of-the-gospel-of-grace-a_1037750.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/65d/brennan-manning-959_blood_this-is-the-god-of-the-gospel-of-grace-a_1037750.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“This is the God of the gospel of grace. 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When the religious views of others interpose between us and the primary experience of Jesus as the Christ, we become unconvicted and unpersuasive travel agents handing out brochures to places we have never visited.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Brennan Manning" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brennan-manning/the-word-we-study-has-to-be-the-word-we-pray-my-personal-experience/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/297/brennan-manning-959_christianity_the-word-we-study-has-to-be-the-word-we_2748185.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/297/brennan-manning-959_christianity_the-word-we-study-has-to-be-the-word-we_2748185.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/297/brennan-manning-959_christianity_the-word-we-study-has-to-be-the-word-we_2748185.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“The Word we study has to be the Word we pray. 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I shall see the woman who had an abortion and is haunted by guilt and remorse but did the best she could faced with grueling alternatives; the businessman besieged with debt who sold his integrity in a series of desperate transactions; the insecure clergyman addicted to being liked, who never challenged his people from the pulpit and longed for unconditional love; the sexually abused teen molested by his father and now selling his body on the street, who, as he falls asleep each night after his last 'trick', whispers the name of the unknown God he learned about in Sunday school. 'But how?' we ask. Then the voice says, 'They have washed their robes and have made them white in the blood of the Lamb.' There they are. There *we* are - the multitude who so wanted to be faithful, who at times got defeated, soiled by life, and bested by trials, wearing the bloodied garments of life's tribulations, but through it all clung to faith. My friends, if this is not good news to you, you have never understood the gospel of grace.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Brennan Manning" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brennan-manning/because-salvation-is-by-grace-through-faith-i-believe-that-among-the/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d3c/brennan-manning-959_christianity_because-salvation-is-by-grace-through-fa_2993252.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d3c/brennan-manning-959_christianity_because-salvation-is-by-grace-through-fa_2993252.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d3c/brennan-manning-959_christianity_because-salvation-is-by-grace-through-fa_2993252.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Because salvation is by grace through faith, I believe that among the countless number of people standing in…” — Brennan Manning", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 14, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“When I get honest, I admit I am a bundle of paradoxes. I believe and I doubt, I hope and get discouraged, I love and I hate, I feel bad about feeling good, I feel guilty about not feeling guilty. I am trusting and suspicious. I am honest and I still play games. Aristotle said I am a rational animal; I say I am an angel with an incredible capacity for beer. To live by grace means to acknowledge my whole life story, the light side and the dark. In admitting my shadow side I learn who I am and what God's grace means. As Thomas Merton put it, \"A saint is not someone who is good but who experiences the goodness of God.\" The gospel of grace nullifies our adulation of televangelists, charismatic superstars, and local church heroes. It obliterates the two-class citizenship theory operative in many American churches. For grace proclaims the awesome truth that all is gift. All that is good is ours not by right but by the sheer bounty of a gracious God. While there is much we may have earned--our degree and our salary, our home and garden, a Miller Lite and a good night's sleep--all this is possible only because we have been given so much: life itself, eyes to see and hands to touch, a mind to shape ideas, and a heart to beat with love. We have been given God in our souls and Christ in our flesh. We have the power to believe where others deny, to hope where others despair, to love where others hurt. This and so much more is sheer gift; it is not reward for our faithfulness, our generous disposition, or our heroic life of prayer. 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