Whatever we have done in the past, be it good or evil, great or small, is irrelevant to our stance before God today. It is only NOW that we are in the presence of God. Brennan Manning More Quotes by Brennan Manning More Quotes From Brennan Manning We are made for Christ, and nothing less will ever satisfy us. Brennan Manning made My trust in God flows out of the experience of his loving me, day in and day out, whether the day is stormy or fair, whether I'm sick or in good health, whether I'm in a state of grace or disgrace. He comes to me where I live and loves me as I am. Brennan Manning sick and-love grace And Grace calls out, 'You are not just a disillusioned old man who may die soon, a middle-aged woman stuck in a job and desperately wanting to get out, a young person feeling the fire in the belly begin to grow cold. You may be insecure, inadequate, mistaken or potbellied. Death, panic, depression, and disillusionment may be near you. But you are not just that. You are accepted.' Never confuse your perception of yourself with the mystery that you really are accepted. Brennan Manning insecure jobs men Whenever I allow anything but tenderness and compassion to dictate my response to life--be it self-righteous anger, moralizing, defensiveness, the pressing need to change others...I am alienated from my true self. My identity as Abba's child [a child of God] becomes ambiguous, tentative and confused Brennan Manning confused compassion children 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 light dark mean Our identity rests in God's relentless tenderness for us revealed in Jesus Christ. Brennan Manning identity jesus christ Sheer scholarship alone cannot reveal to us the gospel of grace. We must never allow the authority of books, institutions, or leaders to replace the authority of KNOWING Jesus Christ personally and directly. When the religious views of others interpose between us and the primary experience of Jesus as the Christ, we become unconvicted and unpersuasive travel agents handing out brochures to places we have never visited. Brennan Manning religious book jesus Define yourself radically as one beloved by God. This is the true self. Every other identity is illusion. Brennan Manning identity self love A saint is not someone who is good but who experiences the goodness of God. Brennan Manning goodness-of-god saint goodness Christianity doesn’t deny the reality of suffering and evil… Our hope… is not based on the idea that we are going to be free of pain and suffering. Rather, it is based on the conviction that we will triumph over suffering. Brennan Manning pain reality ideas The saved sinner is prostrate in adoration, lost in wonder and praise. He knows repentance is not what we do in order to earn forgiveness; it is what we do because we have been forgiven. It serves as an expression of gratitude rather than an effort to earn forgiveness. Thus the sequence of forgiveness and then repentance, rather than repentance and then forgiveness, is crucial for understanding the gospel of grace. Brennan Manning gratitude expression order 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. Brennan Manning honest faces beautiful The secret of the mystery is: God is always greater. No matter how great we think Him to be, His love is always greater. Brennan Manning encouraging encouragement thinking When a man or woman is truly honest, it is virtually impossible to insult them personally. Brennan Manning honest impossible men Our hearts of stone become hearts of flesh when we learn where the outcast weeps. Brennan Manning flesh stones heart The Christian with depth is the person who has failed and who has learned to live with it. Brennan Manning depth persons christian You will trust God to the degree you know you are loved by Him. Brennan Manning trust-in-god degrees knows The spirituality of wonder knows the world is charged with grace, that while sin and war, disease and death are terribly real, God's loving presence and power in our midst are even more real. Brennan Manning disease-and-death real war This is the God of the gospel of grace. A God who, out of love for us, sent the only Son He ever had wrapped in our skin. He learned how to walk, stumbled and fell, cried for His milk, sweated blood in the night, was lashed with a whip and showered with spit, was fixed to a cross, and died whispering forgiveness on us all. Brennan Manning night blood son The gospel declares that no matter how dutiful or prayerful we are, we can't save ourselves. What Jesus did was sufficient. Brennan Manning prayerful matter jesus
