Quotes from Brennan Manning

There's only one healer in the New Israel of God and that is Jesus the Christ. The only question is will she allow the healing spirit of the risen Jesus to flow through her; will she reach out, and touch Him?

Se continuarmos a nos concentrar exclusivamente na dualidade pecador/santo no jeito como vivemos e agimos, ignorando a oposição feroz entre o fariseu e a criança, o crescimento espiritual chegará, de repente, a um ponto de estagnação.

A strange feeling comes over you, when you see the silent candle burning.

O fariseu traiçoeiro dentro de todos nós evita os pecadores.

When the imitation of Christ does not mean to live a life like Christ, but to live your life as authentically as Christ lived his, then there are many ways and forms in which a man can be a Christian."[2]

could more easily contain Niagara Falls in a teacup than I can comprehend the wild, uncontainable love of God.

After reading Brodie, I've decided that if I had my life to live over again, I would not only climb more mountains, swim more rivers, and watch more sunsets; I wouldn't only jettison my hot water bottle, raincoat, umbrella, parachute, and raft; I would not only go barefoot earlier in the spring and stay out later in the fall; but I would devote not one more minute to monitoring my spiritual growth. No, not one.

A compaixão sincera, que gera o perdão, amadurece quando descobrimos onde o inimigo chora.

It remains a startling story to those who never understand that the men and women who are truly filled with light are those who have gazed deeply into the darkness of their imperfect existence.

Jesus broke the law of tradition when the love of persons demanded it.

God not only loves me as I am, but also knows me as I am.

He ends our indecision and liberates us from the oppression of false deadlines and myopic vision.

For those who feel their lives are a grave disappointment to God, it requires enormous trust and reckless, raging confidence to accept that the love of Christ knows no shadow of alteration or change. When Jesus said, "Come to me, all you who labor and are heavy burdened," He assumed we would grow weary, discouraged, and disheartened along the way.

Grace is a state or condition in which we stand (see Romans 5:2).

Rationalization begins with a look in the mirror.

Into this rushing stream, Brennan's plea is evergreen: Live by grace and not by performance. In other words—let God love you. And should you see me out and about somewhere and ask me how I'm personally doing with that, I would answer as my friend so often did: I'm trying.

To be nobody-but-yourself—in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else—means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting. — E. E. CUMMINGS

If our faith is alive and luminous, we will be alert to moments, events and occasions when the power of the resurrection is brought to bear on our lives.

to move into the darkness guided only by a pillar

I can be addicted to vodka or to being nice, to marijuana or being loved, to cocaine or being right

In most testimonies the good news is only a small part of the story, obscured by our achieving and overcoming. In Brennan's story, and in mine, the good news is the entire story, which blessedly leaves us with nothing to prove or protect.

All that is not the love of God has no meaning for me. I can truthfully say that I have no interest in anything but the

Preoccupation with self is always a major component of unhealthy guilt and recrimination.

If we let the Lion of Judah run loose as Lord of our lives, He will not want us to be poor, broken or sad. Yet He may allow it, knowing that in these conditions we are more likely to let Him make us rich, whole and happy.