Quotes from Brennan Manning
No man can adequately reach and explain a single word of God with all his words.
- Brennan Manning
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
God is enough. That is the root of peace. When we start seeking something besides Him, we lose it.
- Brennan Manning
The deepest desire of our hearts is for union for God. God created us for union with himself. This is the original purpose of our lives.
- Brennan Manning
Jesus reveals a God who does not demand but who gives; who does not oppress but who raises up; who does not wound but who heals; who does not condemn but forgives.
- Brennan Manning
We even refuse to be our true self with God- and then wonder why we lack intimacy with him.
- Brennan Manning
I am wonderfully content with a God who does not deal with me as my sins deserve.
- Brennan Manning
When we wallow in guilt, remorse, and shame over real or imagined sins of the past, we are disdaining God's gift of grace.
- Brennan Manning
God is loving us - you and me - this moment, just as we are and not as we should be.
- Brennan Manning
A ragamuffin knows he's only a beggar at the door of God's mercy.
- Brennan Manning
Faith means wanting God and wanting to want nothing else.
- Brennan Manning
All I have learned through trial and error is to stay alert and aware, especially God smiling at our silliness.
- Brennan Manning