Too many Christians are living in a house of fear and not in the house of love. — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
The engaged mind, illuminated by truth, awakens awareness; the engaged heart, affected by love, awakens passion. May I say once more -… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
“But trust in the God who loves consistently and faithfully nurtures confident, free disciples. A loving God fosters a loving people. “The… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
We should be astonished at the goodness of God, stunned that He should bother to call us by name, our mouths wide… — 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
The outstretched arms of Jesus exclude no one, not the drunk in the doorway, the panhandler on the street, gays and lesbians… — 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
“TO BE GRATEFUL for an unanswered prayer, to give thanks in a state of interior desolation, to trust in the love of… — 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
“Larry Hein, who wrote the blessing: May all your expectations be frustrated, may all your plans be thwarted, may all your desires… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
“The philosophy of tough love is based on the conviction that no effective recovery can be initiated until a man admits that… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
“Imagine that Jesus is calling you today. He extends a second invitation to accept His Father's love. And maybe you answer, "Oh,… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
The confessing church of American Ragamuffins needs to join Magdalene and Peter in witnessing that Christianity is not primarily a moral code… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
“Cultic worship is not only hypocritical but absolutely meaningless if it is not accompanied by love for other people; for in such… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
“I could more easily contain Niagara Falls in a tea cup than I can comprehend the wild, uncontainable love of God.” — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
“When a person is evoked for who she is, not who she is not, the most often result will be the inner… — 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
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
The only kind of love that helps anyone grow is unconditional love. — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
Define yourself radically as one beloved by God. This is the true self. Every other identity is illusion. God's love for you… — 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
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
