Brennan Manning Quotes

I'm telling you, God loves a lot of people.

I would like everyone to feel loved by the God who gave his son for us and showed us his boundless love. I want everyone to feel the joy of being Christian.

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

The grace of God is love freely shown toward guilty sinners, contrary to their merit and indeed in defiance of their demerit.

God knew what we were before conversion - wicked, guilty, and defiled; yet He loved us. He knows what we will be after conversion - weak, erring, and frail; yet He loves us.

Jesus loves sinners. He only loves sinners. He has never turned anyone away who came to Him for forgiveness, and He died on the cross for sinners, not for respectable people.

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

The cross shows us the seriousness of our sin-but it also shows us the immeasurable love of God.

In the end what matters is not how good we are but how good God is. Not how much we love Him but how much He loves us. And God loves us whoever we are, whatever we’ve done or failed to do, whatever we believe or can’t.

At the cross God wrapped his heart in flesh and blood and let it be nailed to the cross for our redemption.

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.

The saving love of God is his doing whatever must be done, at great cost to himself, and for the least deserving, so that he might enthrall them with what will make them supremely happy forever, namely, himself.

To be Biblically balanced is to let our theology and preaching be proportioned by the Bible's radically disproportionate focus on God's saving love for sinners seen and accomplished in the crucified and risen Christ.

If you look at the Bible as a whole, it's redemptive and beautiful, and it's God's love story to mankind.

God, to redeem us at the deepest portion of our nature - the urge to love and be loved - must reveal His nature in an incredible and impossible way. He must reveal it at a cross.

I can't help but tell people of the greatest story ever told - God's love and our eternal life.

God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, 'I love you.'

My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ. Christ teaches that God is love.

God is love. He loves everybody. He loves you.

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.

Salvation and Christ's love is a gift. You don't earn it. You've got to receive that gift.

Even during the worst hardships, when the other things in our lives seem to fall apart, we can still find peace in the eternal love of God.

God is love.

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