black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

When a man or woman is truly honest, it is virtually impossible to insult them personally.

Brennan Manning

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
There 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.
BRENNAN MANNING

Connection Essential Experience God Love Touch Yourself
Our hearts of stone become hearts of flesh when we learn where the outcast weeps.
BRENNAN MANNING

Cry Heart Learning Stone
Christianity doesn’t deny the reality of suffering and evil Our hope is not based on the idea that we are going to be free of pain and suffering. Rather, it is based on the conviction that we will triumph over suffering.
BRENNAN MANNING

Evil Freedom Hope Idea Ourselves Pain Reality Success Suffering
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
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
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
Hope knows that if great trials are avoided great deeds remain undone and the possibility of growth into greatness of soul is aborted.
BRENNAN MANNING

Avoid Greatness Growth Hope Soul
We are made for Christ, and nothing less will ever satisfy us.
BRENNAN MANNING

God Religious Satisfaction
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
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
In every encounter we either give life or we drain it; there is no neutral exchange.
BRENNAN MANNING

Encounter exchange Life
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
The gospel will persuade no one unless it has so convicted us that we are transformed by it.
BRENNAN MANNING

Conviction Oneself Scripture Transformation
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
Assured of your salvation by the unique grace of our Lord Jesus Christ” is the heartbeat of the gospel, joyful liberation from fear of the Final Outcome, a summons to self-acceptance, and freedom for a life of compassion toward others.
BRENNAN MANNING

Acceptance Compassionate Heart Life Religious Scripture Yourself

When a man or woman is truly honest, it is virtually impossible to insult them personally.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

When a man or woman is truly honest, it is virtually impossible to insult them personally.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Brennan Manning Quotes