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
issues atmosphere church
One of my realizations in such an earthy atmosphere was that many of the burning theological issues in the church were neither burning nor theological.
errors trials trial-and-error
All I have learned through trial and error is to stay alert and aware, especially God smiling @ our silliness.
unconditional-love helping kind
The only kind of love that helps anyone grow is unconditional love.
father people faces
Experience has taught me that I connect best with others when I connect with the core of myself. When I allow God to liberate me from unhealthy dependence on people, I listen more attentively, love more unselfishly, and am more compassionate and playful. I take myself less seriously, become aware that the breath of the Father is on my face.
grace guilt trying
Our huffing and puffing to impress God, our scrambling for brownie points, our thrashing about trying to fix ourselves while hiding our pettiness and wallowing in guilt are nauseating to God and are a flat denial of the gospel of grace.
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.
jesus promise ruthless
Ruthless trust ultimately comes down to this: faith in the person of Jesus and hope in his promise.
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.
lovable made loving-me
Quia amasti me, fecisti me amabilem. (In loving me, you made me lovable.)
mean want
Faith means wanting God and wanting to want nothing else.
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
gracious adulation charismatic
All that is good is ours not by right but by the sheer bounty of a gracious God