The secret of the mystery is: God is always greater. No matter how great we think Him to be, His love is always greater.
BRENNAN MANNINGThe secret of the mystery is: God is always greater. No matter how great we think Him to be, His love is always greater.
BRENNAN MANNINGOur huffing and puffing to impress God, our scrambling for brownie points, our thrashing about trying to fix ourselves while hiding our pettiness and wallowing in guilt are nauseating to God and are a flat denial of the gospel of grace.
BRENNAN MANNINGDefine yourself radically as one beloved by God. This is the true self. Every other identity is illusion.
BRENNAN MANNINGThe Good News of the gospel of grace cries out: We are all, equally, privileged but unentitled beggars at the door of God’s mercy!
BRENNAN MANNINGWe 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 MANNINGReal freedom is freedom from the opinions of others. Above all, freedom from your opinions about yourself.
BRENNAN MANNINGWhen a man or woman is truly honest, it is virtually impossible to insult them personally.
BRENNAN MANNINGThe men and women who are truly filled with light are those who have gazed deeply into the darkness of their own imperfect existence.
BRENNAN MANNINGThe temptation of the age is to look good without being good.
BRENNAN MANNINGOur identity rests in God’s relentless tenderness for us revealed in Jesus Christ.
BRENNAN MANNINGMy deepest awareness of myself is that I am deeply loved by Jesus Christ and I have done nothing to earn it or deserve it.
BRENNAN MANNINGIf in our hearts we really don’t believe that God loves us as we are, if we are still tainted by the lie that we can do something to make God love us more, we are rejecting the message of the cross.
BRENNAN MANNINGThe 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 MANNINGThe gospel declares that no matter how dutiful or prayerful we are, we can’t save ourselves. What Jesus did was sufficient.
BRENNAN MANNINGRuthless trust ultimately comes down to this: faith in the person of Jesus and hope in his promise.
BRENNAN MANNINGI could more easily contain Niagara Falls in a teacup than I can comprehend the wild, uncontainable love of God.
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