Brennan Manning Quotes

Let the inner god that is in each one of us speak. The temple is your body, and the priest is your heart: it is from here that every awareness must begin.

I used to say, 'There is a God-shaped hole in me.' For a long time I stressed the absence, the hole. Now I find it is the shape which has become more important.

Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.

You are not a human being in search of a spiritual experience. You are a spiritual being immersed in a human experience.

If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

I would say it simply: No one can give that which he doesn't personally possess, which means we cannot transmit the Holy Spirit in an effective way, render the Spirit perceptible, if we ourselves aren't close to the Spirit.

The song that starts with 'Neene Rama, neene Shama, neene Allah, neene Yesu,' is very profound. It exhorts people to stop looking for god everywhere and to instead look within themselves.

You can receive Christ into your heart, and he can bring joy, and a thrill, and glory such as you have never known - if you will give your life to him.

He is the way, the truth, and the light, and no one can come back into the presence of our Father in heaven except through him. Christ is God the Son and possesses every virtue in its perfection. Therefore, the only measure of true greatness is how close a man can become like Jesus. That man is greatest who is most like Christ, and those who love him most will be most like him.

We become contemplatives when God discovers Himself in us.

Healing is the discovery of the Divinity within.

If you know Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior, you already have the Holy Spirit living within you.

You find God the moment you realize that you don't need to seek God

When the faith is strong enough, it is sufficient just to be. It's a journey towards simplicity, towards quietness, towards a kind of joy that is not in time. It's a journey that has taken us from primary identification with our body and our psyche, on to an identification with God, and ultimately beyond identification.

Remember, we are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.

If one marries out of necessity, he will have to reincarnate to reach the point where he wants to live only for God.

In an encounter with divine reality, we do not hear a voice but acquire a voice, and the voice we acquire is our own.

The Holy Spirit can be with you always and guide you back to Him, but in order to enjoy the benefits of this holy gift, you must truly receive it, and then you must use it in your life. How sad it would be to be given such a precious gift and then set it aside and never use it.

The great awareness comes slowly, piece by piece. The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning. The experience of spiritual power is basically a joyful one.

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

I'm becoming more and more myself with time. I guess that's what grace is. The refinement of your soul through time.

The grace thou hast will soon be less, if thou addest not more to it.

I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within.

My appointed work is to awaken the divine nature that is within.

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.