Brennan Manning Quotes

I discovered what it meant to 'live for Christ,' and that it honestly was something I wanted to do. The facts were there, and I could sense the Holy Spirit at work.

I had cars, houses, jewels, furs, and a husband who loved me, and a career I was happy with. But I found fulfillment in my relationship with Christ.

God authors desires in your heart, then fulfills His Will by enabling you to realize those desires.

Jesus Christ is in every way sufficient to the vast desires of the soul.

What makes life worthwhile is having a big enough objective, something which catches our imagination and lays hold of our allegiance, and this the Christian has in a way that no other person has. For what higher, more exalted, and more compelling goal can there be than to know God?

People are often unhappy in the Christian life because they have thought of Christianity, and the whole message of the gospel, in inadequate terms.

I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.

Our great need is to discover that Jesus is all we need.

When my thirst for joy is satisfied by Christ, sin becomes unattractive.

The joy of the gospel fills the hearts and lives of all who encounter Jesus.

If you're living a yielded life, and if you have the preaching and teaching gift, and you're yielding that to God on a continual basis, that's one of the signs that you're in the right place doing the right thing for the right reasons. If you're doing something in the kingdom, and you rarely feel that, that's a red flag. Something needs to be looked at. Are you using the right gift? Are you using it in the right way? For the right reasons? At the right time? In the right context? If I didn't feel it consistently, that would be quite troubling to me.

I have a great need for Christ: I have a great Christ for my need.

You cannot fulfil God's purposes for your life while focusing on your own plans.

Christ's resurrection doesn't mean escaping from the world; it means mission to the world based on Jesus's lordship over the world.

God's greatest interest is to glorify the wealth of His grace by making sinners happy in Him.

Easter is always the answer to "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me!"

That's God's number one purpose, to make us like Christ.

God doesn’t work on sense; He works on grace. God called you, and God called me. He knew what He was doing.

It is only the life that is lost for Him that is found in Him.

Jesus said...i'm the only way to permanent peace, im the only way to permanent joy, im the only way to eternal life, im the only way to forgiveness of sin, im the only way to the Father.

Christians must return to the great story that has its fulfillment in life after death, so we may live and die well in the light of our extraordinary hope that enables us to embrace the ordinary lives God gives us here and now.

Do not worry about your career. Concern yourself with your vocation, and that is to be lovers of Jesus.

My one purpose in life is to help people find a personal relationship with God, which, I believe, comes through knowing Christ.

Jesus Christ is the Son of God, who condescended to come into this world of misery, struggle, and pain to touch men's hearts for good, to teach the way of eternal life, and to give Himself as a sacrifice for the sins of mankind. How different, how empty our lives would be without Him. How infinite is our opportunity for exaltation made possible through His redeeming love.

What we should be after death, we have to attain in life, i.e. holiness and bliss. Here on earth the Kingdom of God begins.