Brennan Manning Quotes

I do not know any way to explain why God's grace touches a man who seems unworthy of it.

Grace is the love of God shown to the unlovely. It is God reaching downward to people who are in rebellion against him.

I am wonderfully content with a God who does not deal with me as my sins deserve.

I just want people to know out there no matter what they've done, God doesn't judge us on how many sins. God is there for us. He loves us. He wants us to turn it over to Him.

No one can be saved - in virtue of what he can do. Everyone can be saved - in virtue of what God can do.

The gospel announces that God doesn't relate to us based on our feats for Jesus, but Jesus' feats for us.

Sin does not stop God's grace from flowing, but God's grace will stop sin.

No one was ever saved because his sins were small; no one was ever rejected on account of the greatness of his sins. Where sin abounded, grace shall much more abound.

Grace is a much more accurate word to use when dealing with the state of human existence. God gives us unmerited favor through Jesus Christ, and since Adam and Eve, our lives have depended on it.

I marvel to think that the Son of God would condescend to save us, as imperfect, impure, mistake-prone, and ungrateful as we often are. I have tried to understand the Savior's Atonement with my finite mind, and the only explanation I can come up with is this: God loves us deeply, perfectly, and everlastingly.

Thankfully, while our self-righteousness reaches far, God's grace reaches farther.

God's mercy and grace give me hope - for myself, and for our world.

The apostle Paul never seemed to exhaust the topic of grace - what makes us think we can? He just kept coming at it and coming at it from another angle. That's the thing about grace. It's like springtime. You can't put it in a single sentence definition, and you can't exhaust it.

I think first and foremost when you look at every other religion all over the world - its works based - you have to earn your way to the Kingdom. With Jesus, it's so different because we didn't do anything to deserve Him. He literally died for us and saved us! There's nothing else like that in the world. There is no other God like that!

No matter how bad you mess up, God loves you, and there's nothing you can do about it.

Most people have settled for a wimpy grace. It's something that doesn't change their lives. There is a difference between grace and mercy. Mercy is the decision of God not to punish us. But grace is the decision of God to save and bless us.

This one word 'grace' contains within itself the whole of New Testament theology.

The hub of Christianity is not "do something for Jesus." The hub of Christianity is "Jesus has done everything for you".

I am fallen, flawed and imperfect. Yet drenched in the grace and mercy that is found in Jesus Christ, there is strength

There is no other salvation except that which begins and ends with grace.

Grace is God's love in action for those who don't deserve it.

The essence of grace, we suppose, is that the account has been paid in advance; and, because it has been paid, everything can be had for nothing.

Grace means there is nothing we can do to make God love us more . . . And grace means there is nothing we can do to make God love us less

The motive of grace is the infinite, compassionate love of a merciful God, but the work of grace was the death of Christ on the cross.

I measure Your love for me by the magnitude of the wrath I deserved, and the wonder of Your mercy by putting Christ in my place.