black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Childlike surrender and trust, I believe, is the defining spirit of authentic discipleship.

Brennan Manning

To lend each other a hand when we’re falling, perhaps that’s the only work that matters in the end.
BRENNAN MANNING

Each Other End Fall Hands Hard Time Support Work
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
The gospel will persuade no one unless it has so convicted us that we are transformed by it.
BRENNAN MANNING

Conviction Oneself Scripture Transformation
we unwittingly project onto God our own attitudes and feelings toward ourselves… But we cannot assume that He feels about us the way we feel about ourselves — unless we love ourselves compassionately, intensely, and freely.
BRENNAN MANNING

Assumption Attitude Compassionate Freedom God Projection
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.
BRENNAN MANNING

Believe Heart Love Lying Message Ourselves Rejection
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.
BRENNAN MANNING

Encouragement Evil Failure Forever Grace Sorrow Suffering
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
We are made for Christ, and nothing less will ever satisfy us.
BRENNAN MANNING

God Religious Satisfaction
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.
BRENNAN MANNING

Acknowledgement God Grace Learning Live Meaning Myself Shadow
My 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 MANNING

Aware Deep Deserve God Love Myself
Letting ourselves be loved by God is more important than loving God.
BRENNAN MANNING

God Important Love Ourselves
When a man or woman is truly honest, it is virtually impossible to insult them personally.
BRENNAN MANNING

Honesty Impossible Insult Man Personal True Virtual Woman
A saint is not someone who is good but who experiences the goodness of God.
BRENNAN MANNING

Difference Experience God Goodness
The deepest desire of our hearts is for union for God. God created us for union with himself. This is the original purpose of our lives.
BRENNAN MANNING

Creation Desire God Heart Live Original Ourselves Purpose
The gospel declares that no matter how dutiful or prayerful we are, we can’t save ourselves. What Jesus did was sufficient.
BRENNAN MANNING

Declare Prayer Save Scripture Sufficient
Our culture says that ruthless competition is the key to success. Jesus says that ruthless compassion is the purpose of our journey.
BRENNAN MANNING

Compassionate Competition Culture Journey Key Ourselves Purpose Success
The story goes that a public sinner was excommunicated and forbidden entry to the church. He took his woes to God. ‘They won’t let me in, Lord, because I am a sinner.’ ‘What are you complaining about?’ said God. ‘They won’t let Me in either.
BRENNAN MANNING

Complaint Funny God Myself Public Sin Story
Define yourself radically as one beloved by God. This is the true self. Every other identity is illusion.
BRENNAN MANNING

God Identity Illusion Oneself Radical True
To be alive is to be broken; to be broken is to stand in need of grace.
BRENNAN MANNING

Alive Break Grace Need Religious Stand
Genuine self-acceptance is not derived from the power of positive thinking, mind games or pop psychology. IT IS AN ACT OF FAITH in the God of grace.
BRENNAN MANNING

Acceptance Faith God Grace Positive Power Thinking
I could more easily contain Niagara Falls in a teacup than I can comprehend the wild, uncontainable love of God.
BRENNAN MANNING

Easy God Love Myself Wild
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
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 MANNING

God Greatness Himself Mystery Secret Thinking
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.
BRENNAN MANNING

Desert Experience God Kind Love Personal
Our 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 MANNING

God Grace Impression Scripture Try
I have been seized by the power of a great affection.
BRENNAN MANNING

Affection Greatness Myself Power
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

Childlike surrender and trust, I believe, is the defining spirit of authentic discipleship.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Childlike surrender and trust, I believe, is the defining spirit of authentic discipleship.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Brennan Manning Quotes