Brennan Manning Quotes

God is always coming to you in the Sacrament of the Present Moment. Meet and receive Him there with gratitude in that sacrament.

Jean was visited by one of her rare moments of happiness, one of those moments when the goodness of God was so real to her that it was like taste and scent; the rough strong taste of honey in the comb and the scent of water. Her thoughts of God had a homeliness that at times seemed shocking, in spite of their power, which could rescue her from terror or evil with an ease that astonished her.

The Christian life is to live all of your life in the presence of God.

The bottom line is that you are the one who is creating your life the way it is. The life you currently live is the result of all your past thoughts and actions. You are in charge of your current thoughts and your present feelings.

We all long for heaven where God is, but we have it in our power to be in heaven with him right now-to be happy with him at this very moment. But being happy with him now means.

There is neither Past nor Future. There is only the Present.

There's nothing in the future and there's nothing in the past. There is only this one moment, and you've got to make it last.

It's being here now that's important. There's no past and there's no future. All there is ever, is the now.

Spirituality tells the seeker not to live in the hoary past, not to live in the remote future, but to live in the immediacy of today, in the eternal Now.

No place of grace for those who avoid the Face. No time to rejoice for those who walk among noise and deny the Voice.

What is salvation? To live with God. Where? Anywhere. Here this moment. One moment in infinite time is quite as good as any other moment.

I have learned that the consequences of our past actions are always interesting; I have learned to view the present with a forward-looking eye.

O my soul, I am now addressing myself to the greatest work that ever a creature was employed about - I am going into the solemn presence of God about business of everlasting importance!

time past and time future what might have been and what has been point to one end, which is always present.

If thou rememberest that God standeth by to behold and visit all that thou doest; whether in the body or in the soul, thou surely wilt not err in any prayer or deed; and thou shalt have God to dwell with thee.

Prayer is a grace through which we pour ourselves out before God and through which He calls us into His presence.

God is the solitude of men. There was only me: I alone decided to commit Evil; alone, I invented Good. I am the one who cheated, I am the one who performed miracles, I am the one accusing myself today, I alone can absolve myself; me, the man.

Eternity is not future or past. Eternity is a dimension of now.

Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings.

Past and future exist only in our memory. The present moment, though, is outside of time, it's Eternity.

The problem with spending your life climbing up the ladder is that you will go right past Jesus, for he's coming down.

God is not pre or post anything. He is present to everything. ... There is not predestination but destination, not predestiny but destiny. This follows from divine omniscience and eternity.

There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.

Have pity on those whose chances grow thinner, there ain't no hiding place from the Father of Creation.