Brennan Manning Quotes

The deepest cry of the human heart is to be loved without condition, no matter what. The gospel of grace announces that you are.

Jesus says. "Acknowledge and accept who I want to be for you: a Savior of boundless compassion, infinite patience, unbearable forgiveness, and love that keeps no score of wrongs. Quit projecting onto Me your own feelings about yourself. At this moment your life is a bruised reed and I will not crush it, a smoldering wick and I will not quench it. You are in a safe place." Brennan Manning. Abba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging

God loves us completely. And He knew us at our worst before He ever began to love us at all.

God is loving us - you and me - this moment, just as we are and not as we should be.

I have given God countless reasons not to love me. None of them has been strong enough to change Him.

God loves human beings. God loves the world. Not an ideal human, but human beings as they are; not an ideal world, but the real world. What we find repulsive in their opposition to God, what we shrink back from with pain and hostility, namely, real human beings, the real world, this is for God the ground of unfathomable love.

I have a word for you. I know your whole life story. I know every skeleton in your closet. I know every moment of sin, shame, dishonesty and degraded love that has darkened your past. Right now I know your shallow faith, your feeble prayer life, your inconsistent discipleship. And my word is this: I dare you to trust that I love you just as you are, and not as you should be. Because you’re never going to be as you should be.

There is tremendous relief in knowing that His love to me is based at every point on prior knowledge of the worst about me.

Love a man, even in his sin, for that love is a likeness of the divine love, and is the summit of love on earth.

I made Man with too many faults. Yet I love him. And if he wishes, I have a home above for him.

Once you feel loved by the universe, you're already accepted, and you're not really concerned about offending people.

Love is higher than the Highest. Love is greater than the Greatest. Yea, it is in a certain sense greater than God; while yet, in the highest sense of all, God is Love, and Love is God. Love being the highest principle is the virtue of all virtues; from whence they flow forth.

I believe Jesus Christ is God. I believe He loves every single human being that has ever lived, no matter what they have done, even if they don't believe in Him.

I am not writing to try and convert people to fundamental Christianity. I am just trying to share my experience, strength and hope, that someone who is as messed up and neurotic and scarred and scared can be fully accepted by our dear Lord, no questions asked.

If Jesus was here, do you think Jesus would show me any love? Do you think Jesus would love me?

You always have to remember - no matter what you're told - that God loves all the flowers, even the wild ones that grow on the side of the highway.

We're not meant to be perfect. It took me a long time to learn that.

God's love is so great that He loves even the proud, the selfish, the arrogant, and the wicked.

I am a Christian person, and I do love the Lord, and I feel no matter who you are, what you believe, how you live your life, it's not my place to judge. I don't have that power. I don't want that power. It's my place to love and to show God's love to other people, even if they don't live a life like I live.

Not everybody is perfect, and I don't think we should be looking for perfect people.

Who can measure the love Christ felt for a lost world, as he hung upon the cross, suffering for the sins of guilty men? This love was immeasurable. It was infinite.

Even when we make mistakes, we hope others will love us in spite of our shortcomings - even if we don't deserve it.

Yes, I'm a miserable, wretched sinner, but He loves me. And to Him, I'm His child, and I can walk in that love and that understanding.

I'm happy to be human, and being human means we aren't perfect.

Love is sometimes shown in the things you don't say, don't keep track of and don't notice. The greatest kindness is often shown in letting things go. None of us is perfect, but we can all be perfect friends and perfect partners by allowing those that we love to be imperfect. Give those around you the 'break' that you hope the world will give you on your own 'bad day' and you'll never, ever regret it.