Our identity rests in God’s relentless tenderness for us revealed in Jesus Christ.
BRENNAN MANNINGHow glorious the splendor of a human heart that trusts that it is loved!
More Brennan Manning Quotes
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We are made for Christ, and nothing less will ever satisfy us.
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If 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.
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To lend each other a hand when we’re falling, perhaps that’s the only work that matters in the end.
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The secret of the mystery is: God is always greater. No matter how great we think Him to be, His love is always greater.
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I could more easily contain Niagara Falls in a teacup than I can comprehend the wild, uncontainable love of God.
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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.
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The gospel declares that no matter how dutiful or prayerful we are, we can’t save ourselves. What Jesus did was sufficient.
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Be daring enough to be different, humble enough to make mistakes, wild enough to be burnt in the fire of love, real enough to make others see how phony you are.
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Faithfulness requires the courage to risk everything on Jesus, the willingness to keep growing, and the readiness to risk failure throughout our lives.
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God loves you unconditionally, as you are and not as you should be, because nobody is as they should be.
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God is loving us – you and me – this moment, just as we are and not as we should be.
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Suffering, failure, loneliness, sorrow, discouragement, and death will be part of your journey, but the Kingdom of God will conquer all these horrors. No evil can resist grace forever.
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How glorious the splendor of a human heart that trusts that it is loved!
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Ruthless trust ultimately comes down to this: faith in the person of Jesus and hope in his promise.
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The spirituality of wonder knows the world is charged with grace, that while sin and war, disease and death are terribly real, God’s loving presence and power in our midst are even more real.
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