The splendor of a human heart that trusts it is loved unconditionally gives God more pleasure than Westminster Cathedral, the Sistine Chapel,… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
What makes a genius? The ability to see. To see what? The butterfly in a caterpillar, the eagle in an egg, the… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
How glorious the splendor of a human heart that trusts that it is loved! — 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
Everybody has a vocation to some form of life-work. However, behind that call (and deeper than any call), everybody has a vocation… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The Christ within who is our hope of glory is not a matter of theological debate or philosophical speculation. He is not… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
[Jesus] matters because of what he brought and what he still brings to ordinary human beings, living their ordinary lives and coping… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
The anything-goes passiveness of the religious and political Left is matched by the preachy moralism of the religious and political Right. The… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
The life of Jesus suggests that to be like Abba is to show compassion. Donald Gray expresses this: "Jesus reveals in an… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
False gods - the gods of human understanding - despise sinners, but the Father of Jesus loves all, no matter what they… — 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
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
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