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
In every encounter we either give life or we drain it; there is no neutral exchange. — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
The way you are with others every day, regardless of their status, is the true test of faith. — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
Don't try to understand it. You won't succeed. Don't try to see it. You can't. Try to live it, and you will… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
God is enough. That is the root of peace. When we start seeking something besides Him, we lose it. — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
All that is good is ours not by right but by the sheer bounty of a gracious God — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
A saint is not someone who is good but who experiences the goodness of God. — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
God is loving us - you and me - this moment, just as we are and not as we should be. — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
The trouble with our ideals is that if we live up to all of them, we become impossible to live with. — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
The Christian with depth is the person who has failed and who has learned to live with it. — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
Anyone we come in contact with, we either offer them life, or we drain them. — 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
