Quotes from Brennan Manning

Grace is sufficient even though we huff and puff with all our might to try and find something or someone that it cannot cover. Grace is enough.

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

Authentic Christianity should lead to maturity, personality, and reality. It should fashion whole men and women living lives of love and communion

I you think you've done it, then you're wrong. Because you're not finished until you have achieved everything that you never thought you could.

God is enough. That is the root of peace. When we start seeking something besides Him, we lose it.

A saint is not someone who is good but who experiences the goodness of God.

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.

Jesus reveals a God who does not demand but who gives; who does not oppress but who raises up; who does not wound but who heals; who does not condemn but forgives.

We even refuse to be our true self with God- and then wonder why we lack intimacy with him.

I am wonderfully content with a God who does not deal with me as my sins deserve.

When we wallow in guilt, remorse, and shame over real or imagined sins of the past, we are disdaining God's gift of grace.

God is loving us - you and me - this moment, just as we are and not as we should be.

A ragamuffin knows he's only a beggar at the door of God's mercy.

Faith means wanting God and wanting to want nothing else.

All that is good is ours not by right but by the sheer bounty of a gracious God

All I have learned through trial and error is to stay alert and aware, especially God smiling @ our silliness.

God is a kooky God who can scarcely bear to be without us.

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!

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

Don't try to understand it. You won't succeed. Don't try to see it. You can't. Try to live it, and you will be living out of the center.

We have been given God in our souls and Christ in our flesh. We have the power to believe where others deny, to hope where others despair, to love where others hurt.

There is an extraordinary power in storytelling that stirs the imagination and makes an indelible impression on the mind.

Without exposure to potential failure, there is no risk.

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 out denial of the gospel of grace.