Brennan Manning Quotes

I spent six years in Bible study because I needed to get grounded. People really need to spend time in the Bible getting to know the God they claim to love.

O blessed Saviour, give me grace like Thee, to make Religion my first, and chiefest care, and devoutly to observe, all solemn times, and all holy Rites, which relate to Thy worship.

I try to be - well, not holy - but my whole family is very religious, and I want to be like that, too. So I try my hardest to be more in touch with the Lord.

The amount of time we spend with Jesus - meditating on His Word and His majesty, seeking His face - establishes our fruitfulness in the kingdom.

Worldly influences would hinder use of our agency afforded through the Atonement of Jesus Christ. But we are agents who can act, and that affects everything in terms of how we live the gospel in our daily lives. It affects how we pray, how we study the scriptures, how we worship at church.

I read the Bible every day.

Of all things, guard against neglecting God in the secret place of prayer.

As we regularly spend time reading God's Word and talking to Him in prayer, we put ourselves in position for Him to do things in our lives we could never do on our own.

I smoked, I drank, I did all the kicking my heels up type things, but I went to Mass on Sunday.

I do want to live my life in the right way and live my life close to God.

I've been saying for a couple of years now that people need to let God out of the Sunday morning box, that He doesn't want to just be with you for an hour or two on Sunday morning and then put back in His box to sit there until you have an emergency, but He wants to invade your Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.

I meditate on God's life and I read the scriptures. I read something about Him, go through it and spend a lot of time by myself.

I occupy much of my time in theological studies for which I have a natural inclination.

Doctrinal rightness and rightness of ecclesiastical position are important, but only as a starting point to go on into a living relationship - and not as ends in themselves.

My first encounters with faith came about the time I was a Boy Scout, at about 14 or 15. I made the logical deduction that they operate the same way; I treated my faith like earning a merit badge, and everything about Christianity was about earning merit badges.

I read novels but I also read the Bible. And study it, you know? And the more I learn, the more excited I get.

I love the Bible. I read it every day. I spend 10 hours a week studying it. It has affected my life in profound ways. I am inspired when I read it.

Those of you who can read I must beg you to read the Bible, and whenever you can get time, study the Bible, and if you can get no other time, spare some of your time from sleep, and learn what the mind and will of God is.

As I got older, I got closer to my faith and I got closer to Jesus, reading the Bible and living my life under God.

It is by letting the world go and coming unto Christ that we increasingly live as women of God.

The best theology is rather a divine life than a divine knowledge.

If you really want to experience God, go and make disciples.

Through prayer, fasting, and studying, God will answer.

It's impossible to be a good Christian. If you think it's easy to be a good Christian, then you're not really trying hard enough.

I've never made football my priority. My priorities are my faith and my dependence on God.