"Too many Christians are living in a house of fear and not in the house of love.












In Love's service, only wounded soldiers can serve.
More Brennan Manning quotes
"I want neither a terrorist spirituality that keeps me in a perpetual state of fright about being in right relationship with my heavenly Father nor a s...
"Ruthless trust ultimately comes down to this: faith in the person of Jesus and hope in his promise.
"To ignore, repress, or dismiss our feelings is to fail to listen to the stirrings of the Spirit within our emotional life. Jesus listened. In John's G...
"As we come to grips with our own selfishness and stupidity, we make friends with the impostor and accept that we are impoverished and broken and reali...
"The unwounded life bears no resemblance to the Rabbi.
"The life of Jesus suggests that to be like Abba is to show compassion. Donald Gray expresses this: "Jesus reveals in an exceptionally human life what ...
"For me the most radical demand of Christian faith lies in summoning the courage to say yes to the present risenness of Jesus Christ.
"While the impostor draws his identity from past achievements and the adulation of others, the true self claims identity in its belovedness. We encount...
"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 o...
"The sorrow of God lies in our fear of Him, our fear of life, and our fear of ourselves. He anguishes over our self-absorption and self-sufficiency... ...
"Our hearts of stone become hearts of flesh when we learn where the outcast weeps.
"Live in the wisdom of accepted tenderness. Tenderness awakens within the security of knowing we are thoroughly and sincerely liked by someone...Script...
"[The] insistence on the absolutely indiscriminate nature of compassion within the Kingdom is the dominant perspective of almost all of Jesus' teaching...
"Define yourself radically as one beloved by God. This is the true self. Every other identity is illusion.