Brennan Manning Quotes

• Without fear I can acknowledge that the authentic Christian tension is not between life and death, but between life and life.

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  Topics in Fear, Life

• It is for the inconsistent, unsteady disciples whose cheese is falling off their cracker.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Falling

• Those who have the disease called Jesus will never be cured.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Jesus

• 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.

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  Topics in God

• I have been seized by the power of a great affection.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Jesus

• The unwounded life bears no resemblance to the Rabbi.

  Brennan Manning

  Topics in Life

• Only reckless confidence in a Source greater than ourselves can empower us to forgive the woulds inflicted by others.

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  Topics in Confidence

• No man can adequately reach and explain a single word of God with all his words.

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  Topics in God

  Tags in Word

• Our identity rests in God’s relentless tenderness for us revealed in Jesus Christ.

  Brennan Manning

  Topics in God

• The litmus test of our love for God is our love of neighbor.

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  Topics in Love

• Hope knows that if great trials are avoided great deeds remain undone and the possibility of growth into greatness of soul is aborted.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Hope

• Do the truth quietly without display.

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  Topics in Truth

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

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Man

• Our hearts of stone become hearts of flesh when we learn where the outcast weeps.

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  Tags in Hearts

• 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.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Transparency

• 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.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Awareness

• Real freedom is freedom from the opinions of others. Above all, freedom from your opinions about yourself.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Freedom

• In Love’s service, only wounded soldiers can serve.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Faith

• How glorious the splendor of a human heart that trusts that it is loved.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Glorious

• 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

  Topics in Religion

Brennan Manning (23)

Birth:	27th April, 1934
Death:	12th April, 2013
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Author, Priest, Speaker

About

Brennan Manning was born in Depression-era New York City. He was an American author, priest, and public speaker. He is best known for his bestselling book The Ragamuffin Gospel.

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