Brennan Manning Quotes

Like art, like music, like so many other disciplines, prayer can only be appreciated when you actually spend time in it. Spending time with the Master will elevate your thinking. The more you pray, the more will be revealed. You will appreciate not only the greatness of prayer, but the greatness of God.

God is enough. That is the root of peace. When we start seeking something besides Him, we lose it.

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.

Prayer irrigates the fields of life with the waters which are stored up in the reservoirs of promise.

Prayer is the thermometer of grace.

Prayer is nothing else than a sense of God's presence

I drove away from my mind everything capable of spoiling the sense of the presence of God.... I just make it my business to persevere in His holy presence... My soul has had an habitual, silent, secret conversation with God.

Meditation is waiting on God.

Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared.

I'm convinced we all have a God-shaped space in us, and until we fill that space with God, we'll never know what it is to be whole.

Prayer is the most concrete way to make our home in God.

Wanting to feel good is synonymous with wanting to feel God.

My main job is to live with deep contentment, joy, and confidence in my everyday experience of life with God. Everything else is job number two.

I think there is a longing in everyone for a personal relationship with God.

One of the values of centering prayer is that you are not thinking about God during the time of centering prayer so you are giving God a chance to manifest. In centering prayer there are moments of peace that give the psyche a chance to realize that God may not be so bad after all. God has a chance to be himself for a change.

He who has learned to pray has learned the greatest secret of a holy and happy life.

Whatever it is that can help to bring God close is something to be revered.

Silence is the pause in me when I am near to God.

In college, I joined a team Bible study. God's Word brought me peace and a desire for a relationship with Him.

My prayer life and my connection with God are on the highest level.

Everybody has God inside, but not everybody is able to see God within. One can see God only when one cries for Him. Those who cry for God and pray to God can realise God.

Love God and find him within - the only treasure worth finding.

It has a supernatural grandeur which expands the soul and unites it with God. I say an Our Father or a Hail Mary when I feel so spiritually barren that I cannot summon up a single worth while thought. These two prayers fill me with rapture and feed and satisfy my soul.

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

Do you wish to grow in grace and be a holy Christian? Then never forget the value of prayer.