Quotes by Brennan Manning

Brennan Manning (1934–2013) — Buchautor und Redner, ehem. Franziskanerpriester · Römisch-katholisch / konfessionsübergreifend · USA

Brennan Manning (1934–2013) war ein US-amerikanischer Buchautor, geistlicher Redner und ehemaliger Franziskanerpriester, der vor allem im katholischen und überkonfessionell-evangelikalen Raum wirkte. Bekannt wurde er durch Bestseller wie „The Ragamuffin Gospel“ und die Betonung von Gottes bedingungsloser Gnade für Gescheiterte, während Kritiker seine Hinwendung zu kontemplativer Mystik und die Weite seiner Gnadenlehre beanstandeten. Für Bibelleser bietet sein Werk einen von Leistungsdenken befreiten Zugang zum Trost des Evangeliums, wirft jedoch auch Fragen zur Abgrenzung meditativen Betens und universalistischer Tendenzen auf.

Era: Today

Recurring topics: Grace & Redemption, God, Jesus & the Holy Spirit, Meaning & Identity, Humility & Pride, Faith & Trust, Guilt & Forgiveness, Love, Prayer & Silence

Quotes by Brennan Manning

God loves you unconditionally, as you are, and not as you should be — for you will never become as you should be.
Brennan Manning

We groan and moan to impress God, we stress ourselves out to get ourselves back in order. All of this is a flat denial of the gospel.
Brennan Manning

Grace means God is on our side, so we are winners no matter how well we played.
Brennan Manning

Are you really aware that you don't have to change, improve, or be good in order to be loved?
Brennan Manning

Grace means: it's over. We no longer need to strive and pant to earn God's favor.
Brennan Manning

Nothing a person could do can increase or diminish God's love for us.
Brennan Manning

When we try to pray and cannot, God tenderly touches us in response. In that sense, there is no such thing as a failed prayer.
Brennan Manning

Doubt, fear and self-hatred are overcome when we accept that we are accepted.
Brennan Manning

I don't have to put on spiritual makeup to make myself presentable to God.
Brennan Manning

A Christian of depth is someone who knows he has failed, and has learned to live with that fact.
Brennan Manning

In his brokenness, the lost son experiences an intimate closeness with his father that his decent, self-righteous brother never knows.
Brennan Manning

The God who shook this universe out of his sleeve, filling it with galaxies and stars, with penguins and puffins - that is the God who loves with glorious stubbornness.
Brennan Manning

Jesus's tender affection for us is in no way determined by how we pray, what we are, or what we do.
Brennan Manning

Never confuse your self-perception with the mystery that you are accepted.
Brennan Manning

God takes no pleasure in suffering and pain. Jesus brings us the good news about the Father, not the bad news.
Brennan Manning

In his battered and broken body Jesus carried your sin and mine, every loss, every wound of the soul that refuses to heal.
Brennan Manning

We are equally privileged beggars at the door of God's grace.
Brennan Manning

Jesus brings us the good news about the Father, not the bad news.
Brennan Manning

Repentance is not something we do to earn forgiveness; rather, we repent because we have already been forgiven.
Brennan Manning

Trusting Jesus means we are allowed to make mistakes and firmly believe that his life keeps pulsing on within us anyway.
Brennan Manning

Fortunately, the certainty of God's presence does not depend on the ups and downs of our feelings.
Brennan Manning

The God next to whose power the atomic bomb is nothing harbors tender feelings for us.
Brennan Manning

The problem with our ideals is this: when we reach them, no one can bear to live with us anymore.
Brennan Manning

Being loved - that is our identity, the core of our entire being.
Brennan Manning

Those who are poor in spirit are seized by deep wonder that the Creator sits at table with his creatures.
Brennan Manning

However dutiful we may be, however much we may pray - we cannot save ourselves. What Jesus has done is enough.
Brennan Manning

We do not meet God by seeking spiritual highs and extraordinary mystical experiences, but simply where we already are.
Brennan Manning

Far more important than our own efforts is being found by a seeking God.
Brennan Manning

To be alive is to be broken. And to be broken is to stand in need of grace.
Brennan Manning

Self-acceptance does not mean settling for the way things are. On the contrary, love is a far higher motivation for change than threat or pressure.
Brennan Manning

Deliberately wasting time with God enables me to act and forgive with greater strength, instead of nursing the latest scratch on my wounded self.
Brennan Manning

To live by grace means to acknowledge my whole life story, the bright side as well as the dark.
Brennan Manning

The kingdom of God belongs to those who are not trying to look good and impress everyone, including themselves.
Brennan Manning

There may be much we have earned - our salary, a home, a cold beer, or a good night's sleep. But all of it is only possible because so much has been given to us: life itself.
Brennan Manning

Reconciliation also means reconciliation with ourselves, with all in our lives we have not yet been able to find peace with.
Brennan Manning

Saints and mystics through the centuries have arrived again and again at the same conclusion: it is impossible for God not to love us.
Brennan Manning

The gospel for the spiritually poor says: we cannot lose, because we have nothing to lose.
Brennan Manning

If God were to stop being love, then God would stop being God.
Brennan Manning

Humble men and women do not think poorly of themselves, because they simply don't think of themselves that often.
Brennan Manning

The meaning of our life becomes clear when we embark on the adventure of becoming the person we are not yet.
Brennan Manning

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Sources: thebeautifulkingdombuilders.com, wordpress.com, mikeduran.com, wayoflife.org

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