black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

When absolute control and rigid obedience pose as love within the family and the local faith-community , we produce trained cowards rather than Christian persons.

Brennan Manning

Anyone we come in contact with, we either offer them life, or we drain them.
BRENNAN MANNING

Contact Life Touch
Real freedom is freedom from the opinions of others. Above all, freedom from your opinions about yourself.
BRENNAN MANNING

Freedom Opinion Reality Yourself
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
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
The men and women who are truly filled with light are those who have gazed deeply into the darkness of their own imperfect existence.
BRENNAN MANNING

Darkness Existence Imperfection Light Man True Woman
The 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 MANNING

God Goodness Grace Mercy Scripture
Our identity rests in God’s relentless tenderness for us revealed in Jesus Christ.
BRENNAN MANNING

God Identity Ourselves Reveal Tender
The way you are with others every day, regardless of their status, is the true test of faith.
BRENNAN MANNING

Day Faith Regard Status Test Way
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
Letting ourselves be loved by God is more important than loving God.
BRENNAN MANNING

God Important Love Ourselves
On the last day, Jesus will look us over not for medals, diplomas, or honors, but for scars.
BRENNAN MANNING

Day Medal Ourselves Scars Search
Our hearts of stone become hearts of flesh when we learn where the outcast weeps.
BRENNAN MANNING

Cry Heart Learning Stone
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
How glorious the splendor of a human heart that trusts that it is loved!
BRENNAN MANNING

Glory Heart Human Love Trust
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
When we wallow in guilt, remorse, and shame over real or imagined sins of the past, we are disdaining God’s gift of grace.
BRENNAN MANNING

Gift Grace Guilt Imagination Reality Shame

When absolute control and rigid obedience pose as love within the family and the local faith-community , we produce trained cowards rather than Christian persons.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

When absolute control and rigid obedience pose as love within the family and the local faith-community , we produce trained cowards rather than Christian persons.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Brennan Manning Quotes