Quotes from Brennan Manning

You will trust God to the degree you know you are loved by Him.

Ruthless trust ultimately comes down to this: faith in the person of Jesus and hope in his promise.

In human beings, love is a quality, a high-prized virtue; in God, love is His identity.

If asked whether I am finally letting God love me, just as I am, I would answer, 'No, but I'm trying.

Prayer is first and foremost an act of love

Hope your wildest hopes, dream your maddest dreams, imagine your most fantastic fantasies. Where your hopes and your dreams and your imagination leave off, the love of my Heavenly Father only begins.

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

Do the truth quietly without display.

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

Do you believe that the God of Jesus loves you beyond worthiness and unworthiness, beyond fidelity and infidelity—that he loves you in the morning sun and in the evening rain—that he loves you when your intellect denies it, your emotions refuse it, your whole being rejects it. Do you believe that God loves without condition or reservation and loves you this moment as you are and not as you should be.

The ragamuffin who sees his life as a voyage of discovery and runs the risk of failure has a better feel for faithfulness than the timid man who hides behind the law and never finds out who he is at all.

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