Brennan Manning Quotes

The Good News of the gospel of grace cries out: We are all, equally, privileged but unentitled beggars at the door of God's mercy!

Brennan Manning

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• I'm childish and silly. Most people tease me because I'm a bit daft.

  

  Harriet Walter
  • People
  • Silly
  • Childish

• We have to be careful not to look for confidence in the acceptance of others because true confidence only comes from knowing God.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • God
  • True
  • Confidence

• I'm looking for a world where love will no longer be extraordinary.

  

  Patch Adams
  • World
  • Love
  • Will

• ..the wind of 'art brut' blows on writing as well as on other avenues of artistic creation.

  

  Jean Dubuffet
  • Writing
  • Art
  • Wind

• Humanism was not invented by man, but by a snake who suggested that the quest for autonomy might be a good idea.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Good
  • Man
  • Idea

• The real crisis of worship today is not that the preaching is paltry or that it's too drafty in church. It is that people have no sense of the presence of God, and if they have no sense of His presence, how can they be moved to express the deepest feelings of their souls to honor, revere, worship, and glorify God?

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • People
  • God
  • Real

• It has been said by church historians that in those periods of Christian history where renewal, revival, and awakening took place and the church was at its strongest, that coincidental with those periods in church history, there was a strong focus on the psalms in the life of God's people-particularly in the worship of God's people.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • People
  • Life
  • God

• This is God's work, and God's work will not be frustrated. But there is still much to be done.

  

  M. Russell Ballard
  • Work
  • God
  • Done

• There is a big difference between an honest mistake made in a moment of spiritual weakness and a willfull decision to disobey persistently the commandments of God. Those who deliberately choose to violate God's commandments or ignore the standards of the Church, even when promising themselves and others that someday they will be strong enough to repent, are stepping into a dangerously slippery slope upon which many have lost their spiritual footing.

  

  M. Russell Ballard
  • God
  • Strong
  • Lost

• God rarely allows a person to see how great a blessing he is to others.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Great
  • God
  • Person

• Everyone agrees the celibacy rule is just a Church law dating from the 11th century, not a divine command.

  

  Hans Kung
  • Law
  • Church
  • Dating

• Let me peer out at the world through your lens. (Maybe I'll shudder, or gasp, or tilt my head in a question.) Let me see how your blue is my turquoise and my orange is your gold. Suddenly binary stars, we have startling gravity. Let's compare scintillation - let's share starlight.

  

  Naomi Shihab Nye
  • Share
  • Compare
  • Starlight

• What shall we do with...the Jews?...I advise that safe-conduct on the highways be abolished completely for the Jews.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Jews
  • Advise
  • Safe-conduct

• I love every bone in a woman's body, especially mine.

  

  Steven Tyler Aerosmith
  • Body
  • Bones
  • Mines

• While I oppose the death penalty as a policy matter, in a legal culture in which we reserve the right to execute people for relatively routine street crimes, it seems quite absurd for the justice system to get squeamish about executing the operational masterminds of Sept. 11.

  

  Benjamin Wittes
  • Death
  • Culture
  • Policy

• When any church will inscribe over its altar, as its sole qualification for membership, the Savior's condensed statement of the substance of both law and Gospel, 'Thou shalt love the lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul and thy neighbor as thyself' that church will I join with all my heart and all my soul.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • God
  • Soul
  • Church

• Postmillennialism expects the proclaiming of the Spirit-blessed gospel of Jesus Christ to win the vast majority of human beings to salvation in the present age. Increasing gospel success will gradually produce a time in history prior to Christ’s return in which faith, righteousness, peace, and prosperity will prevail in the affairs of people and of nations.

  

  Darrell Bock
  • People
  • Faith
  • Gospel

• The Good News of the gospel of grace cries out: We are all, equally, privileged but unentitled beggars at the door of God's mercy!

  

  Brennan Manning
  • Gospel
  • Good News
  • God's Mercy