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 matter prayerful
The gospel declares that no matter how dutiful or prayerful we are, we can't save ourselves. What Jesus did was sufficient.
mean dark who-i-am
To live by grace means to acknowledge my whole life story, the light side and the dark. In admitting my shadow side I learn who I am and what God's grace means.
backyards desert kind
We must go out into a desert of some kind (your backyard will do) and come into a personal experience of the awesome 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.
christian depth persons
The Christian with depth is the person who has failed and who has learned to live with it.
fall hands matter
To lend each other a hand when we're falling, perhaps that's the only work that matters in the end.
believe defining spirit
Childlike surrender and trust, I believe, is the defining spirit of authentic discipleship.
gratitude expression order
The saved sinner is prostrate in adoration, lost in wonder and praise. He knows repentance is not what we do in order to earn forgiveness; it is what we do because we have been forgiven. It serves as an expression of gratitude rather than an effort to earn forgiveness. Thus the sequence of forgiveness and then repentance, rather than repentance and then forgiveness, is crucial for understanding the gospel of grace.
self wonder intimacy
We even refuse to be our true self with God- and then wonder why we lack intimacy with him.
giving encounters drains
In every encounter we either give life or we drain it; there is no neutral exchange.
eye important purpose
Lord, when I feel that what I'm doing is insignificant and unimportant, help me to remember that everything I do is significant and important in your eyes, because you love me and you put me here, and no one else can do what I am doing in exactly the way I do it.
beautiful faces honest
There is a beautiful transparency to honest disciples who never wear a false face and do not pretend to be anything but who they are.
fashion live-life reality
Authentic faith leads us to treat others with unconditional seriousness and to a loving reverence for the mystery of the human personality. Authentic Christianity should lead to maturity, personality, and reality. It should fashion whole men and women living lives of love and communion. False, manhandled religion produces the opposite effect. Whenever religion shows contempt or disregards the rights of persons, even under the noblest pretexts, it draws us away from reality and God.