Quote

The confessing church of American Ragamuffins needs to join Magdalene and Peter in witnessing that Christianity is not primarily a moral code but a grace-laden mystery it is not essentially a philosophy of love but a love affair it is not keeping rules with clenched fists but receiving a gift with open hands.

Brennan Manning

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Brennan Manning
Age: 75 †
Born: 1937
Born: April 27
Died: 2013
Died: April 12
Author
Catholic Priest
Theologian
New York City
New York
Richard Francis Xavier Manning
Needs
Mystery
Peter
Clenched
Love
Grace
Essentially
Confessing
Philosophy
Code
Witnessing
Open
Keeping
Laden
Moral
Affair
Fists
Church
Rules
Primarily
American
Gift
Receiving
Hands
Christianity
Join
Magdalene

More quotes by Brennan Manning

Image
Real freedom is freedom from the opinions of others. Above all, freedom from your opinions about yourself.
Brennan Manning
Image
I knew there was only one place to go. I sank down into the center of my soul, grew still, and listened to the Rabbi's heartbeat.
Brennan Manning
Image
The only kind of love that helps anyone grow is unconditional love.
Brennan Manning
Image
When being is divorced from doing, pious thoughts become an adequate substitute for washing dirty feet.
Brennan Manning
Image
Our hearts of stone become hearts of flesh when we learn where the outcast weeps.
Brennan Manning
Image
God is a kooky God who can scarcely bear to be without us.
Brennan Manning
Image
we unwittingly project onto God our own attitudes and feelings toward ourselves... But we cannot assume that He feels about us the way we feel about ourselves -- unless we love ourselves compassionately, intensely, and freely.
Brennan Manning
Image
When we wallow in guilt, remorse, and shame over real or imagined sins of the past, we are disdaining God's gift of grace.
Brennan Manning
Image
Trust is that rare and priceless treasure that wins us the affection of our heavenly Father.
Brennan Manning
Image
Faith will become vision, hope will become possession, but the love of Jesus Christ that is stronger than death endures forever. In the end, it is the only thing you can hang onto.
Brennan Manning
Image
* Recognize that God is with you. * Acknowledge God knows what He's doing. * Search for God's will: the path He desires you to take in life. * Consider what God did for you when He sent Jesus to die on the cross (forgiveness and righteousness)
Brennan Manning
Image
Sin and forgiveness and falling and getting back up and losing the pearl of great price in the couch cushions but then finding it again, and again, and again? Those are the stumbling steps to becoming Real, the only script that's really worth following in this world or the one that's coming.
Brennan Manning
Image
Without exposure to potential failure, there is no risk.
Brennan Manning
Image
Ragamuffins are simple, direct and honest. Their speech is unaffected. They are slow to claim, God told me... As they make their way through the world, they bear wordless, prophetic witness.
Brennan Manning
Image
Though it is true that the church must always dissociate itself from sin, it can never have any excuse for keeping any sinner at a distance.
Brennan Manning
Image
Prayer is first and foremost an act of love
Brennan Manning
Image
The most powerful thing that can happen in the place of prayer is that you yourself become the prayer. You leave the prayer room able as Jesus' hands and feet on earth. This is what it means to pray continually (without ceasing), to see with the eyes of Jesus and to hear with His ears with every waking moment.
Brennan Manning
Image
Do you honestly believe God likes you, not just loves you because theologically God has to love you?
Brennan Manning
Image
Letting ourselves be loved by God is more important than loving God.
Brennan Manning
Image
The kingdom is not an exclusive, well-trimmed suburb with snobbish rules about who can live there. No, it is for a larger, homelier, less self-conscious caste of people who understand they are sinners because they have experienced the yaw and pitch of moral struggle.
Brennan Manning