Brennan Manning

I have been seized by the power of a great affection.

— Brennan Manning

Reality, truth, and Jesus Christ are incredibly open-ended

— Brennan Manning

Do the truth quietly without display.

— Brennan Manning

Those who have the disease called Jesus will never be cured.

— Brennan Manning

Without exposure to potential failure, there is no risk.

— Brennan Manning

“Rationalization begins with a look in the mirror.”

— Brennan Manning

Jesus hung out with ragamuffins,

— Brennan Manning

A trusting heart is forgiven and, in turn, forgives.

— Brennan Manning

The gospel declares that no matter how dutiful or prayerful we are, we can't save ourselves. What Jesus did was sufficient.

— Brennan Manning

“Freedom in Christ produces a healthy independence from peer pressure, people-pleasing, and the bondage of human respect.”

— Brennan Manning

Our hearts of stone become hearts of flesh when we learn where the outcast weeps.

— Brennan Manning

The Christian with depth is the person who has failed and who has learned to live with it.

— Brennan Manning

To be alive is to be broken; to be broken is to stand in need of grace.

— Brennan Manning

It is for the inconsistent, unsteady disciples whose cheese is falling off their cracker.

— Brennan Manning

Childlike surrender and trust, I believe, is the defining spirit of authentic discipleship.

— Brennan Manning

We miss Jesus' point entirely when we use His words as weapons against others.

— Brennan Manning

Faithfulness requires the courage to risk everything on Jesus, the willingness to keep growing, and the readiness to risk failure throughout our…

— Brennan Manning

“All men and women are the people of His caring. All are called to accept the extravagant gift of His grace, for…

— Brennan Manning

To live by grace means to acknowledge my whole life story, the light side and the dark. In admitting my shadow side…

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The men and women who are truly filled with light are those who have gazed deeply into the darkness of their own…

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* Recognize that God is with you. * Acknowledge God knows what He's doing. * Search for God's will: the path He…

— Brennan Manning

“It is Christ offering the opportunity of a lifetime: “I have come into the world as light, to prevent anyone who believes…

— Brennan Manning

The loss of transcendence has left in its wake the flotsam of distrustful, cynical Christians, angry at a capricious God, and the…

— Brennan Manning

The life of Jesus suggests that to be like Abba is to show compassion. Donald Gray expresses this: "Jesus reveals in an…

— Brennan Manning

One of the the loveliest lines I have ever read comes from Brother Roger, the Prior of the Protestant monks of Taize,…

— Brennan Manning

For several centuries, the Celtic church of Ireland was spared the Greek dualism of matter and spirit. They regarded the world with…

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“Alert to the manipulations and machinations of Pharisaical self-righteousness, ragamuffins refuse to surrender control of their lives to rules and regulations. They…

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“While there is much we may have earned--our degree and our salary, our home and garden, a Miller Lite and a good…

— Brennan Manning

Live in the wisdom of accepted tenderness. Tenderness awakens within the security of knowing we are thoroughly and sincerely liked by someone...…

— Brennan Manning

“The bending of the mind by the powers of this world has twisted the gospel of grace into religious bondage and distorted…

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To affirm a person is to see the good in them that they cannot see in themselves and to repeat it in…

— Brennan Manning

For Ragamuffins, God's name is Mercy. We see our darkness as a prized possession because it drives us into the heart of…

— Brennan Manning

For those who feel their lives are a grave disappointment to God, it requires enormous trust and reckless, raging confidence to accept…

— Brennan Manning

“On a blustery October night in a church outside Minneapolis, several hundred believers had gathered for a three-day seminar. I began with…

— Brennan Manning

“What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us.' A. W. Tozer wrote that,…

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“[author quoting from his journal entry] "To feel safe is to stop living in my head and sink down into my heart…

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“The philosophy of tough love is based on the conviction that no effective recovery can be initiated until a man admits that…

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“If what God says is the truest thing about us, then it makes sense to follow him and accept our As-Is condition…

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“The tenderness of Jesus frees us from embarrassment about ourselves. He lets us know that we can risk being known, that our…

— Brennan Manning

“[The] insistence on the absolutely indiscriminate nature of compassion within the Kingdom is the dominant perspective of almost all of Jesus' teaching.…

— Brennan Manning