Brennan Manning Quotes

Throughout my life, my prayers have actively sustained me - held me up, carried me through.

Crises can never break the one who relies on God's strength.

Take your duty, and be strong in it, as God will make you strong. The harder it is, the stronger in fact you will be. Understand, also, that the great question here is, not what you will get, but what you will become. The greatest wealth you can ever get will be in yourself. Take your burdens and troubles and losses and wrongs, if come they must and will, as your opportunity, knowing that God has girded you for greater things than these.

When I am weak then am I strong, Grace is my shield and Christ my Song.

We cannot live as Christians separate from the rock who is Christ. He gives us strength and stability, but also joy and serenity.

Faint hearts are encouraged when they read about others who, despite amputation, spinal cord injury, or psychiatric disorders have a vibrant trust and confidence in God.

we're too great a nation to allow the evil-doers to affect our soul and our spirit.

This book was not written because I wanted to offer a supreme model to the man who struggles; I wanted to show him that he must not fear pain, temptation or death - because all three can be conquered, all three have already been conquered. Christ suffered pain, and since then pain has been sanctified. Temptation fought until the very last moment to lead him astray, and Temptation was defeated. Christ died on the Cross, and at that instant death was vanquished forever.

If God sends us on strong paths, we are provided strong shoes.

Should we feel at times disheartened and discouraged, a simple movement of heart toward God will renew our powers. Whatever he may demand of us, he will give us at the moment the strength and courage that we need.

God holds with the strong.

It takes quite a spine to turn the other cheek. It takes phenomenal fortitude to love your enemy. It takes firm resolve to pray for those who persecute you. (with reference to Matthew 5)

Faith parries all blows. Faith transforms poison into crystalline water.

When all of earth turns against you, all of heaven turns toward you.

What grace is meant to do is to help good people, not to escape their sufferings, but to bear them with a stout heart, with a fortitude that finds its strength in faith.

All we are asked to bear we can bear. That is a law of the spiritual life. The only hindrance to the working of this law, as of all benign laws, is fear.

Do not expect God always to give you His thrilling minutes, but learn to live in the domain of drudgery by the power of God.

Do not give way to lowness while you are young. Rise up on the strength of God and resolve to conquer.

Some people don't have a family to fall back on, like I have, and that's when something greater than even that comes in, and that's faith and that's what I have for me, that's what keeps me strong.

God doesn't give people burdens they can't handle.

The deeper we look, the more we shall be convinced that the one thing wanting, which we must strive to acquire before all others, is strength strength physical, strength mental, strength moral, but above all strength spiritual which is the one inexhaustible and imperishable source of all the others. If we have strength everything else will be added to us easily and naturally.

Stand still... and refuse to retreat. Look at it as God looks at it and draw upon His power to hold up under the blast.

The greatest encouragement is conveyed in prayer.

Intellect takes us along in the battle of life to a certain limit, but at the crucial moment it fails us. Faith transcends reason. It is when the horizon is the darkest and human reason is beaten down to the ground that faith shines brightest and comes to our rescue.