Brennan Manning Quotes

Define yourself radically as one beloved by God. This is the true self. Every other identity is illusion.

Define yourself radically as one beloved by God.

Heavenly Father's interest in you does not depend on how rich or beautiful or healthy or smart you are. He sees you not as the world sees you; He sees who you really are. He looks on your heart. And He loves you because you are His child.

I want to encourage other people to try to discover who they are, not to try to fit into some superficial prototype of what they think a Christian should be, but to discover who they really are.

My success is not who I am.

Spiritual identity means we are not what we do or what people say about us. And we are not what we have. We are the beloved daughters and sons of God.

Always be yourself. At the end of the day, that's all you've really got; when you strip everything down, that's all you've got, so always be yourself.

Whether I'm wearing lots of makeup or no makeup, I'm always the same person inside.

We have the real self and the false self, there's nothing wrong with them, and everyone has both of them.

Yet each of us also carries another portrait with us, a picture far more important than any in our wallet. Psychologists have a name for it. They call that mental picture of ourselves, our self-image. ... there's always the person whose self-image is bent all out of shape, like a photo carried too long in a wallet.The good news of the tremendous worth we have in God's eyes can light up our inner self-portrait.

The secret is to have a sense of yourself, your real self, your unique self. And not just once in a while, or once a day, but all through the day, the week and life.

We acknowledge that being the person God made you cannot separate you from God's love.

I kept running around it in large or small circles, always looking for someone or something able to convince me of my Belovedness. Self-rejection is the greatest enemy of the spiritual life because it contradicts the sacred voice that calls us the "Beloved". Being the Beloved expresses the core truth of our existence.

You are not defined by your possessions, looks, or popularity. You are made in God's image.

Discovering vocation does not mean scrambling toward some prize just beyond my reach but accepting the treasure of true self I already posses.

The original, shimmering self gets buried so deep that most of us end up hardly living out of it at all. Instead we live out all the other selves, which we are constantly putting on and taking off like coats and hats against the world’s weather

Actually, who are you not to be?

We are not our bodies, our possessions, or our careers. Who we are is DIVINE LOVE and that is INFINITE.

The greatest discovery in life is self-discovery. Until you find yourself you will always be someone else. Become yourself.

That’s what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is....Most people love you for who you pretend to be....To keep their love, you keep pretending - performing. You get to love your pretense...It’s true, we’re locked in an image, an act...

The search "Who am I"...ends in the annihilation of the illusory "I" and the Self which remains over will be as clear as a gooseberry in the palm of one's hand.

Although our package of skin and bones looks very convincing, it is a mask, an illusion, disguising our true self, which has no limitations.

You do not have to change for God to love you.

We all have a lifelong habit of inferiority to our full self..."

Self-rejection is the greatest enemy of the spiritual life because it contradicts the sacred voice that calls us the Beloved.