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
men single-word word-of-god
No man can adequately reach and explain a single word of God with all his words
religious children party
The anything-goes passiveness of the religious and political Left is matched by the preachy moralism of the religious and political Right. The person who uncritically embraces any party line is guilty of an idolatrous surrender of her core identity as Abba's Child. Neither liberal fairy dust nor conservative hardball addresses our ragged human dignity.
spiritual giving silence
The ancient spiritual tradition is that God gives himself fully to us in silence and solitude.
letting-go trying answers
If asked whether I am finally letting God love me, just as I am, I would answer, 'No, but I'm trying.
vacation maturity shopping
The conversation of most middle-class Americans, we are told, revolves around consumption: what to buy, what was just bought, where to eat, the price of the neighbor's house, what's on sale this week, our clothes or someone else's, the best car on the market this year, where to spend a vacation. Apparently we can't stop eating, shopping, or consuming. Success is measured not in terms of love, wisdom, and maturity but by the size of one's pile of possessions.
spiritual reality opposites
Won't the awareness God loves us no matter what lead to spiritual laziness and moral laxity? Theoretically, this seems a reasonable fear, but in reality the opposite is true. . . . The more rooted we are in the love of God, the more generously we will live our faith.
christian house
Too many Christians are living in a house of fear and not in the house of love.
mother self dragons
Shame--what happened when my mother, the dragon, huffed and puffed and blew my self down.
prayer thinking firsts
The first step in faith is to stop thinking about God at the time of prayer.-
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.
imagination mind storytelling
There is an extraordinary power in storytelling that stirs the imagination and makes an indelible impression on the mind.
inspirational religious trying
Don't try to understand it. You won't succeed. Don't try to see it. You can't. Try to live it, and you will be living out of the center.
dirty feet adequate
When being is divorced from doing, pious thoughts become an adequate substitute for washing dirty feet.