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
god-love god-loves-us ought
God loves us as we are...not as we ought to be. because we are never going to be as we ought to be." --Brennan Manning
love-you believe likes
Do you honestly believe God likes you, not just loves you because theologically God has to love you?
prayer firsts acts-of-love
Prayer is first and foremost an act of love
love-is quality identity
In human beings, love is a quality, a high-prized virtue; in God, love is His identity.
love heart passion
The engaged mind, illuminated by truth, awakens awareness; the engaged heart, affected by love, awakens passion. May I say once more - this essential energy of the soul is not an ecstatic trance, high emotion or a sanguine stance toward life: It is a fierce longing for God, an unyielding resolve to live in and out of our belovedness. - pg. 152
encouraging encouragement love-is
The secret of the mystery is: God is always greater. No matter how great we think Him to be, His love is always greater.
prayer crazy fire-of-love
The love of Christ embraces all without exception. Fire of love, crazy over what You have made. Oh, divine Madman. (Prayer of Catherine Siena) Simply do the next thing in love. I have no sense of myself apart from you. Quia amasti me, fecisti me amabilem. (In loving me, you made me lovable.)
love jesus disappointment
For those who feel their lives are a grave disappointment to God, it requires enormous trust and reckless, raging confidence to accept that the love of Jesus Christ knows no shadow of alteration or change. When Jesus said, "Come to me, all you who labor and are heavy burdened," He assumed we would grow weary, discouraged, and disheartened along the way. These words are a touching testimony to the genuine humanness of Jesus. He had no romantic notion of the cost of discipleship. He knew that following Him was as unsentimental as duty, as demanding as love.
tests our-love god-love
The litmus test of our love for God is our love of neighbor.
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.
love self identity
Define yourself radically as one beloved by God. This is the true self. Every other identity is illusion.
love book heart
Grace abounds in contemporary movies, books, novels, films and music. If God is not in the whirlwind, He may be in a Woody Allen film, or a Bruce Springsteen concert. Most people understand imagery and symbol better than doctrine and dogma. Images touch hearts and awaken imaginations. One theologian suggested that Springsteen's 'Tunnel of Love' album, in which he symbolically sings of sin, death, despair and redemption, is more important for Catholics than the Pope's last visit when he spoke of morality only in doctrinal propositions.
love soldier spiritual-life
In Love's service, only wounded soldiers can serve.
love-you god-love eager-beaver
God loves you unconditionally, as you are and not as you should be, because nobody is as they should be.