Brennan Manning Quotes

Desire to see God, be fearful of losing Him, and find joy in everything that can lead to Him. If you act in this way, you will always live in great peace.

In essence, there is only one thing God asks of us - that we be men and women of prayer, people for whom God is everything and for whom God is enough. That is the root of peace. We have that peace when the gracious God is all we seek. When we start seeking something besides Him, we lose it.

He who has God finds he is lacking nothing.

Whoever has God lacks nothing. God alone suffices.

If God is enough for you, then you'll always have enough, because you'll always have God.

Patience attains All that it strives for. He who has God Finds he lacks nothing: God alone suffices.

Christ is everywhere and He is in me. What more do I want, except more of Him?

If God is in a life, it doesn't have to be big to be happy and to be important in His kingdom.

The theological virtue of hope is the patient and trustful willingness to live without closure, without resolution, and still be content and even happy because our Satisfaction is now at another level, and our Source is beyond ourselves.

To be full of things is to be empty of God. To be empty of things is to be full of God.

When we take our eyes off the whirl of day-to-day activity and concentrate on honoring Him and following in His way, we find a consistent peace that carries us through both plenty and poverty.

Those who have everything but thee, my God, laugh at those who have nothing but thyself.

Let nothing disturb you. Let nothing frighten you. Everything passes away except God. God alone is sufficient.

God wants us to know that when we have Him, we have everything.

You have no questions to ask of any body, no new way that you need inquire after; no oracle that you need to consult; for whilst you shut yourself up in patience, meekness, humility, and resignation to God, you are in the very arms of Christ, your heart is His dwelling-place, and He lives and works in you.

The cure for the sin of envy and jealousy is to find our contentment in God

...the secret to joy is to keep seeking God where we doubt He is.

He who desires nothing but God is rich and happy.

The sovereign God wants to be loved for Himself and honoured for Himself, but that is only part of what He wants. The other part is that He wants us to know that when we have Him we have everything - we have all the rest.

Contentment is the greatest door that one enters to Allah, it is the source of tranquility for the worshiper and paradise on earth. Whoever does not enter it will not enter the Paradise in the Hereafter.

The Christian is the most contented man in the world, but he is the least contented with the world.

Live with the gods. And he does so who constantly shows them that his soul is satisfied with what is assigned to him.

If I can find out God, then I shall find Him,If none can find Him, then I shall sleep soundly,Knowing how well on earth your love sufficed me, A lamp in darkness.

Contentment is one of the most distinguishing traits of the godly person, because a godly person has his heart focused on God rather than on possessions or position or power.