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 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.
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
gracious adulation charismatic
All that is good is ours not by right but by the sheer bounty of a gracious God
jesus honor looks
On the last day, Jesus will look us over not for medals, diplomas, or honors, but for scars.
drains contact offers
Anyone we come in contact with, we either offer them life, or we drain them.
jesus faithful
Jesus was victorious not because he never flinched, talked back, or questioned, but having flinched, talked back, and questioned, he remained faithful.
display ragamuffin-gospel
Do the truth quietly without display.
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.
beautiful reality evil
To affirm a person is to see the good in them that they cannot see in themselves and to repeat it in spite of appearances to the contrary. Please, this is not some Pollyanna optimism that is blind to the reality of evil, but rather like a fine radar system that is tuned in to the true, the good, and the beautiful.