Brennan Manning

As we come to grips with our own selfishness and stupidity, we make friends with the impostor and accept that we are…

— Brennan Manning

“When I accept in the depth of my being that the ultimate accomplishment of my life is 'me' - the person I've…

— Brennan Manning

Authentic faith leads us to treat others with unconditional seriousness and to a loving reverence for the mystery of the human personality.…

— Brennan Manning

This is the God of the gospel of grace. A God who, out of love for us, sent the only Son He…

— Brennan Manning

Craving clarity, we attempt to eliminate the risk of trusting God.

— Brennan Manning

The North American Church is at a critical juncture. The gospel of grace is being confused and compromised by silence, seduction, and…

— Brennan Manning

All I have learned through trial and error is to stay alert and aware, especially God smiling @ our silliness.

— Brennan Manning

Everybody has a vocation to some form of life-work. However, behind that call (and deeper than any call), everybody has a vocation…

— Brennan Manning

The noonday devil of the Christian life is the temptation to lose the inner self while preserving the shell of edifying behavior.…

— Brennan Manning

“A man doesn’t grow old because he has lived a certain number of years. A man grows old when he deserts his…

— Brennan Manning

The love of Christ embraces all without exception. Fire of love, crazy over what You have made. Oh, divine Madman. (Prayer of…

— Brennan Manning

“Today the danger of the pro-life position, which I vigorously support, is that it can be frighteningly selective. The rights of the…

— Brennan Manning

“Is there anyone I can level with? Anyone I dare tell that I am benevolent and malevolent, chaste and randy, compassionate and…

— Brennan Manning

Our huffing and puffing to impress God, our scrambling for brownie points, our thrashing about trying to fix ourselves while hiding our…

— Brennan Manning

“To prefer to be the servant rather than the lord of the household is the path of downward mobility in an upwardly…

— Brennan Manning

God is enough. That is the root of peace. When we start seeking something besides Him, we lose it.

— Brennan Manning

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

— Brennan Manning

“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

To lend each other a hand when we're falling, perhaps that's the only work that matters in the end.

— Brennan Manning

All that is good is ours not by right but by the sheer bounty of a gracious God

— Brennan Manning

Too many Christians are living in a house of fear and not in the house of love.

— Brennan Manning

Charles de Foucauld, the found of the Little Brothers of Jesus, wrote a single sentence that's ahad a profound impact on my…

— Brennan Manning

Sin and forgiveness and falling and getting back up and losing the pearl of great price in the couch cushions but then…

— Brennan Manning

The engaged mind, illuminated by truth, awakens awareness; the engaged heart, affected by love, awakens passion. May I say once more -…

— Brennan Manning

I've decided that if I had my life to live over again, I would not only climb more mountains, swim more rivers,…

— Brennan Manning