The Christian with depth is the person who has failed and who has learned to live with it.
BRENNAN MANNINGThe Christian with depth is the person who has failed and who has learned to live with it.
BRENNAN MANNINGOur culture says that ruthless competition is the key to success. Jesus says that ruthless compassion is the purpose of our journey.
BRENNAN MANNINGTo be alive is to be broken; to be broken is to stand in need of grace.
BRENNAN MANNINGJesus comes for sinners, for those outcast and those caught up in squalid choices and failed dreams.
BRENNAN MANNINGTragedy is that our attention centers on what people are not, rather than on what they are and who they might become.
BRENNAN MANNINGThe gospel will persuade no one unless it has so convicted us that we are transformed by it.
BRENNAN MANNINGWe 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.
BRENNAN MANNINGWe are made for Christ, and nothing less will ever satisfy us.
BRENNAN MANNINGThe way you are with others every day, regardless of their status, is the true test of faith.
BRENNAN MANNINGGod is loving us – you and me – this moment, just as we are and not as we should be.
BRENNAN MANNINGThere 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 MANNINGIf asked whether I am finally letting God love me, just as I am, I would answer, ‘No, but I’m trying.
BRENNAN MANNINGHope knows that if great trials are avoided great deeds remain undone and the possibility of growth into greatness of soul is aborted.
BRENNAN MANNINGJesus comes not for the super-spiritual but for the wobbly and the weak-kneed who know they don’t have it all together, and who are not too proud to accept the handout of amazing grace.
BRENNAN MANNINGGod is enough. That is the root of peace. When we start seeking something besides Him, we lose it.
BRENNAN MANNINGThere is an essential connection between experiencing God, loving God, and trusting God. You will trust God only as much as you love him. And you will love him to the extent you have touched him, rather that he has touched you.
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