About yourself Quote by Brennan Manning

Whenever I allow anything but tenderness and compassion to dictate my response to life--be it self-righteous anger, moralizing, defensiveness, the pressing need to change…

— Brennan Manning

“This book is dedicated to my parents, Ami and Abba. Your undying love for me, even when you feel I have sinned against you,…

— Nabeel Qureshi

“Since love has spoken in your soul, reject The Self, that whirlpool where our lives are wrecked; As Jesus rode his donkey, ride on…

— Farīd al-Dīn ʻAṭṭār

“This is my only wish to you, bound in anger and grief: Do not scratch my bleeding wounds, I’m full of disbelief. My soul…

— Hannah Kent

“It is Jesus that you seek when you dream of happiness; He is waiting for you when nothing else you find satisfies you; He…

— Pope John Paul II

“The inner life is bruised by a running against the laws of the Kingdom. The bruises are guilt complexes, a sense of inferiority, of…

— E. Stanley Jones

Jesus says, "I want you to follow me so fully, so intensely, so enduringly that all other attachments in your life look weak by…

— Timothy Keller

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

— Brennan Manning

“In other words, there should be no fear of Jesus coming back and finding “hands in the cookie jar.” As His children, our lives…

— Matthew Robert Payne

“He has learnt that in putting on the Lord Jesus he has put on the heart of compassion, kindness, humility, meekness, and long-suffering. Jesus…

— Andrew Murray

“Jesus’ words, “Forgive them for they do not know what they do,” also apply to yourself.”

— Eckhart Tolle

“Uncompromising trust in the love of God inspires us to thank God for the spiritual darkness that envelops us, for the loss of income,…

— Brennan Manning