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
fall cheese crackers
It is for the inconsistent, unsteady disciples whose cheese is falling off their cracker.
spiritual spring fall
I've decided that if I had my life to live over again, I would not only climb more mountains, swim more rivers, and watch more sunsets; I wouldn't only jettison my hot water bottle, raincoat, umbrella, parachute, and raft; I would not only go barefoot earlier in the spring and stay out later in the fall; but I would devote not one more minute to monitoring my spiritual growth. No, not one.
real fall getting-back-up
Sin and forgiveness and falling and getting back up and losing the pearl of great price in the couch cushions but then finding it again, and again, and again? Those are the stumbling steps to becoming Real, the only script that's really worth following in this world or the one that's coming.
fall hands matter
To lend each other a hand when we're falling, perhaps that's the only work that matters in the end.
fall god-love i-can
I could more easily contain Niagara Falls in a teacup than I can comprehend the wild, uncontainable love of God.
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.
jesus father understanding
False gods - the gods of human understanding - despise sinners, but the Father of Jesus loves all, no matter what they do. But of course this is almost too incredible for us to accept.
dirty feet adequate
When being is divorced from doing, pious thoughts become an adequate substitute for washing dirty feet.
christian jesus victory
Stop comparing or boast at your victories. He was referring to enormous vitality and strength of God of Jesus seeking union with us. The living acts of a Christian become somehow the acts of Christ.
motivational thinking done
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.