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
There is the "you" that people see and then there is the "rest of you". Take some time and craft a picture… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
I have a word for you. I know your whole life story. I know every skeleton in your closet. I know every… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
“We can embrace our whole life story in the knowledge that we have been graced and made beautiful by the providence of… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
“When we give anything more priority than we give to God, we commit idolatry. Thus we all commit idolatry countless times every… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
“The spiritual future of ragamuffins consists not in disavowing that we are sinners but in accepting that truth with growing clarity, rejoicing… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
“Today we need small bands of people who take the gospel at face value, who realize what God is doing in our… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
The way of trust is a movement into obscurity, into the undefined, into ambiguity, not into some predetermined, clearly delineated plan for… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
Whatever we have done in the past, be it good or evil, great or small, is irrelevant to our stance before God… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
“His consistent banging on the drums of God’s unconditional love sounded at a time when many of us had about “had it… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The first step in faith is to stop thinking about God at the time of prayer.- — 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
“In a moment of naked honesty, ask yourself, 'Do I wholeheartedly trust that God likes me'... in this moment, right now, right… — 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
