Grace Quotes by Brennan Manning

To be alive is to be broken; to be broken is to stand in need of grace.

— Brennan Manning

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

— 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

When we wallow in guilt, remorse, and shame over real or imagined sins of the past, we are disdaining God's gift of…

— Brennan Manning

My trust in God flows out of the experience of his loving me, day in and day out, whether the day is…

— 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

Genuine self-acceptance is not derived from the power of positive thinking, mind games or pop psychology. IT IS AN ACT OF FAITH…

— Brennan Manning

Jesus comes not for the super-spiritual but for the wobbly and the weak-kneed who know they don’t have it all together, and…

— Brennan Manning

To live by grace means to acknowledge my whole life story, the light side and the dark. In admitting my shadow side…

— Brennan Manning

“The disciple living by grace rather than law has undergone a decisive conversion—a turning from mistrust to trust. The foremost characteristic of…

— Brennan Manning

The spirituality of wonder knows the world is charged with grace, that while sin and war, disease and death are terribly real,…

— Brennan Manning

Nevertheless, the central affirmation of the Reformation stands: through no merit of ours, but by his mercy, WE HAVE BEEN RESTORED to…

— 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

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

— Brennan Manning

One of the the loveliest lines I have ever read comes from Brother Roger, the Prior of the Protestant monks of Taize,…

— 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

The sinners to whom Jesus directed His messianic ministry were not those who skipped morning devotions or Sunday church. His ministry was…

— 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

“Grace means that in the middle of our struggle the referee blows the whistle and announces the end of the game. We…

— Brennan Manning

“My message, unchanged for more than fifty years, is this: God loves you unconditionally, as you are and not as you should…

— 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

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

— 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

There is an essential connection between experiencing God, loving God, and trusting God. You will trust God only as much as you…

— Brennan Manning

Put bluntly, the American church today accepts grace in theory but denies it in practice. We say we believe that the fundamental…

— Brennan Manning

Our huffing and puffing to impress God, our scrambling for brownie points, our thrashing about trying to fix ourselves while hiding our…

— Brennan Manning

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

Grace is sufficient even though we huff and puff with all our might to try and find something or someone that it…

— Brennan Manning

The Good News means we can stop lying to ourselves. The sweet sound of amazing grace saves us from the necessity of…

— 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

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 Christian lives by grace as Abba’s child, utterly rejecting the God who catches people by surprise in a moment of weakness—the…

— Brennan Manning

Grace abounds in contemporary movies, books, novels, films and music. If God is not in the whirlwind, He may be in a…

— Brennan Manning

Justification by grace through faith' is the theologian's learned phrase for what Chesterton once called 'the furious love of G-d.' He is…

— Brennan Manning

The saved sinner is prostrate in adoration, lost in wonder and praise. He knows repentance is not what we do in order…

— Brennan Manning

And Grace calls out, 'You are not just a disillusioned old man who may die soon, a middle-aged woman stuck in a…

— Brennan Manning