Brennan Manning Quotes

But whatever the Lord throws at me right now, I think I've been given more blessings than I ever deserved. If he wants to top it off with anything - boy, girl - I would love either of them.

God gave me everything I have.

Any good that comes our way doesn't come to us solely because we have done something good, but because God is good.

The pleasures of this world are rather from God's goodness than our own merit.

God's willingness to answer our prayers exceeds our willingness to give good and necessary things to our children, just as far as God's ability, goodness and perfection exceed our infirmities and evil.

If you have anything, or if I have anything, it's because it's been given to us by our Creator.

I have nothing to ask for, thanks to God. Everything I have, God has given me.

I give all the glory to God. It's kind of a win-win situation. The glory goes up to Him and the blessings fall down on me.

I have always said every good thing is divinely sent from heaven.

No person ever gave me nothing but God.

God was very good to me as a child, and I'm a very blessed individual.

Except for the grace of God, I would be nobody - and that grace is the opposite of merit - human labour, education or human wisdom.

The first thing I do every day when I wake up is thank God for letting me make it through the night and giving me another day of life - just because sometimes I wake up, and I cannot believe I'm doing what I'm doing. I just thank Him. I don't know how I deserve it, but it's completely because of Him.

All my blessings are thanks to the Almighty.

God's grace is definitely abundant.

I used to be real cocky about what I do but then I realized it's not me, all of this is really God's gift and whenever He want to, He can take it away.

Only by God?s grace have I made it to see today and only by God?s grace will I ever see tomorrow.

When we see a soul whose acts are all regal, graceful, and pleasant as roses, we must thank God that such things can be and are.

We receive from God, then we give to others.

God is gracious beyond the power of language to describe.

God is good all the time. And all the time, God is good.

Instead I ought to be grateful to Him who never owed me anything for having been so generous to me, rather than think that He deprived me of those things or has taken away from me whatever He did not give me.

Health is a great blessing--competence obtained by honorable industry is a great blessing--and a great blessing it is to have kind, faithful, and loving friends and relatives; but, that the greatest of all blessings, as it is the most ennobling of all privileges, is to be indeed a Christian.

Providence so orders the case, that faith and prayer come between our wants and supplies, and the goodness of God may be the more magnified in our eyes thereby.

I want to thank God because that's who I look up. He's graced my life with opportunities. He's shown me that it's a scientific fact that gratitude reciprocates.