Quotes from Brennan Manning
God is a kooky God who can scarcely bear to be without us.
- Brennan Manning
The Good News of the gospel of grace cries out: We are all, equally, privileged but unentitled beggars at the door of God's mercy!
- Brennan Manning
Don't try to understand it. You won't succeed. Don't try to see it. You can't. Try to live it, and you will be living out of the center.
- Brennan Manning
We have been given God in our souls and Christ in our flesh. We have the power to believe where others deny, to hope where others despair, to love where others hurt.
- Brennan Manning
There is an extraordinary power in storytelling that stirs the imagination and makes an indelible impression on the mind.
- Brennan Manning
Without exposure to potential failure, there is no risk.
- Brennan Manning
Our huffing and puffing to impress God, our scrambling for brownie points, our thrashing about trying to fix ourselves while hiding our pettiness and wallowing in guilt are nauseating to God and are a flat out denial of the gospel of grace.
- Brennan Manning
The ancient spiritual tradition is that God gives himself fully to us in silence and solitude.
- Brennan Manning
Childlike in faith means the daily acknowledgment of utter dependence and that I owe my life and being to another.
- Brennan Manning
Without fear I can acknowledge that the authentic Christian tension is not between life and death, but between life and life.
- Brennan Manning
Our culture says that ruthless competition is the key to success. Jesus says that ruthless compassion is the purpose of our journey.
- Brennan Manning
Anyone we come in contact with, we either offer them life, or we drain them.
- Brennan Manning