“At Sunday worship, as in every dimension of our existence, many of us pretend to believe we are sinners. Consequently, all we… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
In a futile attempt to erase our past, we deprive the community of our healing gift. If we conceal our wounds out… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
To ignore, repress, or dismiss our feelings is to fail to listen to the stirrings of the Spirit within our emotional life.… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
While the impostor draws his identity from past achievements and the adulation of others, the true self claims identity in its belovedness.… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
The dominant characteristic of an authentic spiritual life is the gratitude that flows from trust — not only for all the gifts… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
“Often people request prayers for deliverance, inner healing, or physical healing. But more frequently they simply want a man or woman to… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
The dominant characteristic of an authentic spiritual life is the gratitude that flows from trust — 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
“[The] insistence on the absolutely indiscriminate nature of compassion within the Kingdom is the dominant perspective of almost all of Jesus' teaching.… — 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
