black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Our identity rests in God’s relentless tenderness for us revealed in Jesus Christ.

Brennan Manning

When absolute control and rigid obedience pose as love within the family and the local faith-community , we produce trained cowards rather than Christian persons.
BRENNAN MANNING

Control Coward Family Love Obedience Person Training
What makes the Kingdom come is heartfelt compassion: a way of tenderness that knows no frontiers, no labels, no compartmentalizing, and no sectarian divisions.
BRENNAN MANNING

Compassionate Department Division Heart Tender
For me the most radical demand of Christian faith lies in summoning the courage to say yes to the present risenness of Jesus Christ.
BRENNAN MANNING

Demand God Present Radical Religion Rise
God is loving us – you and me – this moment, just as we are and not as we should be.
BRENNAN MANNING

God Love Moments Yourself
We should be astonished at the goodness of God, stunned that He should bother to call us by name, our mouths wide open at His love, bewildered that at this very moment we are standing on holy ground.
BRENNAN MANNING

Astonish Call God Goodness Holy Moments Name Stand Stunning
I have been seized by the power of a great affection.
BRENNAN MANNING

Affection Greatness Myself Power
In Love’s service, only wounded soldiers can serve.
BRENNAN MANNING

Love Service Wound
I asked for wonder, and He gave it to me.
BRENNAN MANNING

God Himself Miracle Myself Wonder
The sorrow of God lies in our fear of Him, our fear of life, and our fear of ourselves. He anguishes over our self-absorption and self-sufficiency… God’s sorrow lies in our refusal to approach Him when we sinned and failed.
BRENNAN MANNING

Failure Fear God Himself Life Lying Sin Sorrow
God loves you unconditionally, as you are and not as you should be, because nobody is as they should be.
BRENNAN MANNING

Be Yourself God Love Original
If asked whether I am finally letting God love me, just as I am, I would answer, ‘No, but I’m trying.
BRENNAN MANNING

God Love Myself Try
The Christian with depth is the person who has failed and who has learned to live with it.
BRENNAN MANNING

Deep Failure Learning Live Person
I am wonderfully content with a God who does not deal with me as my sins deserve.
BRENNAN MANNING

Content Deserve God Myself Sin Wonderful
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.
BRENNAN MANNING

Beautiful Discipline Face Honesty Pretend Transparent
God is enough. That is the root of peace. When we start seeking something besides Him, we lose it.
BRENNAN MANNING

Enough God Himself Lose Peace Seek Start
In every encounter we either give life or we drain it; there is no neutral exchange.
BRENNAN MANNING

Encounter exchange Life

Our identity rests in God’s relentless tenderness for us revealed in Jesus Christ.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Our identity rests in God’s relentless tenderness for us revealed in Jesus Christ.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Brennan Manning Quotes