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
letting-go jesus good-day
Rome is burning, Jesus says. Drop your fiddle, change your life and come to Me. Let go of the good days that never were - a regimented church you never attended, traditional virtues you never practiced, legalistic obedience you never honored, and a sterile orthodoxy you never accepted. The old era is done. The decisive inbreak of God has happened.
brother father self
The forgiveness of God is gratuitous liberation from guilt. Paradoxically, the conviction of personal sinfulness becomes the occasion of encounter with the merciful love of the redeeming God. "There will be more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner repenting..." (Luke 15:7). In his brokenness, the repentant prodigal knew an intimacy with his father that his sinless, self-righteous brother would never know.
men years numbers
A man doesn't grow old because he has lived a certain number of years. A man grows old when he deserts his ideal. The years may wrinkle his skin, but deserting his ideal wrinkles his soul.
risk exposure
Without exposure to potential failure, there is no risk.
jesus promise ruthless
Ruthless trust ultimately comes down to this: faith in the person of Jesus and hope in his promise.
impossible trouble ifs
The trouble with our ideals is that if we live up to all of them, we become impossible to live with.
christian book thinking
I am deeply distressed by what I only can call in our Christian culture the idolatry of the Scriptures. For many Christians, the Bible is not a pointer to God but God himself... God cannot be confined within the covers of a leather-bound book. I develop a nasty rash around people who speak as if mere scrutiny of its pages will reveal precisely how God thinks and precisely what God wants.
love-you believe likes
Do you honestly believe God likes you, not just loves you because theologically God has to love you?
lovable made loving-me
Quia amasti me, fecisti me amabilem. (In loving me, you made me lovable.)
moments should
God is loving us - you and me - this moment, just as we are and not as we should be.
mean want
Faith means wanting God and wanting to want nothing else.
way tests test-of-faith
The way you are with others every day, regardless of their status, is the true test of faith.
grace trying might
Grace is sufficient even though we huff and puff with all our might to try and find something or someone that it cannot cover. Grace is enough.
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