Brennan Manning
Brennan Manning
Richard Francis Xavier Manning, known as Brennan Manning was an American author, laicized priest, and public speaker. He is best known for his bestselling book The Ragamuffin Gospel...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth27 April 1934
CountryUnited States of America
jesus compassion shows
The life of Jesus suggests that to be like Abba is to show compassion.
jesus compassion forgiving
The ragamuffin gospel reveals that Jesus forgives sins, including the sins of the flesh; that He is comfortable with sinners who remember how to show compassion; but that He cannot and will not have a relationship with pretenders in the Spirit.
jesus compassion divine
The life of Jesus suggests that to be like Abba is to show compassion. Donald Gray expresses this: "Jesus reveals in an exceptionally human life what it is to live a divine life, a compassionate life.
compassion heartfelt labels
What makes the Kingdom come is heartfelt compassion: a way of tenderness that knows no frontiers, no labels, no compartmentalizing, and no sectarian divisions.
jesus journey compassion
Our culture says that ruthless competition is the key to success. Jesus says that ruthless compassion is the purpose of our journey.
heart compassion essence
Live in the wisdom of accepted tenderness. Tenderness awakens within the security of knowing we are thoroughly and sincerely liked by someone... Scripture suggests that the essence of the divine nature is compassion and that the heart of God is defined by tenderness.
children confused compassion
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 others...I am alienated from my true self. My identity as Abba's child [a child of God] becomes ambiguous, tentative and confused
god radically
Define yourself radically as one beloved by God.
atheism cause christians deny finds jesus lips simply single walk
The greatest single cause of atheism in the world today is Christians who acknowledge Jesus with their lips and walk out the door and deny Him by their lifestyle. That is what an unbelieving world simply finds unbelievable.
mean childlike acknowledgment
Childlike in faith means the daily acknowledgment of utter dependence and that I owe my life and being to another.
important bishops influential
Troubadours have always been more important and influential than theologians and bishops
prayer thinking firsts
The first step in faith is to stop thinking about God at the time of prayer.-
jesus powerful prayer
The most powerful thing that can happen in the place of prayer is that you yourself become the prayer. You leave the prayer room able as Jesus' hands and feet on earth. This is what it means to pray continually (without ceasing), to see with the eyes of Jesus and to hear with His ears with every waking moment.
bears ragamuffin-gospel
God is a kooky God who can scarcely bear to be without us.