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Brennan Manning Biography

Richard Francis Xavier Manning, known as Brennan Manning (April 27, 1934 – April 12, 2013) was an American author, laicized priest, and public speaker. He is best known for his bestselling book The Ragamuffin Gospel.

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Jesus comes for sinners, for those outcast. . . and those caught up in squalid choices and failed dreams.

Choices, Dream, Failed, Jesus, Sinners

Hope knows that if great trials are avoided great deeds remain undone and the possibility of growth into greatness of soul is aborted.

Greatness, Soul, Growth, Avoided, Knows

Prayer is first and foremost an act of love

Acts Of Love, Firsts, Foremost, Love, Prayer

Christianity doesn’t deny the reality of suffering and evil… Our hope… is not based on the idea that we are going to be free of pain and suffering. Rather, it is based on the conviction that we will triumph over suffering.

Deny, Ideas, Pain, Reality, Suffering

Reality, truth, and Jesus Christ are incredibly open-ended

Christ, Incredibly, Jesus, Reality

Real freedom is freedom from the opinions of others. Above all, freedom from your opinions about yourself.

About Yourself, Freedom, Opinion, Opinions, Real

we unwittingly project onto God our own attitudes and feelings toward ourselves. . . But we cannot assume that He feels about us the way we feel about ourselves -- unless we love ourselves compassionately, intensely, and freely.

Assume, Attitude, Feelings, Feels, Toward, Way

The ragamuffin gospel reveals that Jesus forgives sins, including the sins of the flesh; that He is comfortable with sinners who remember how to show compassion; but that He cannot and will not have a relationship with pretenders in the Spirit.

Compassion, Forgiving, Including, Jesus, Relationship, Show

The trouble with our ideals is that if we live up to all of them, we become impossible to live with.

Become, Ideals, Impossible, Live, Trouble

Without fear I can acknowledge that the authentic Christian tension is not between life and death, but between life and life.

Acknowledge, Christian, Life And Death, Tension

Live in the wisdom of accepted tenderness. Tenderness awakens within the security of knowing we are thoroughly and sincerely liked by someone. . . Scripture suggests that the essence of the divine nature is compassion and that the heart of God is defined by tenderness.

Accepted, Compassion, Essence, Heart

No man can adequately reach and explain a single word of God with all his words

Man, Men, Single, Single Word, Word, Word Of God

Faith will become vision, hope will become possession, but the love of Jesus Christ that is stronger than death endures forever. In the end, it is the only thing you can hang onto.

Forever, Hope, Jesus, Love, Possession, Vision

The conversation of most middle-class Americans, we are told, revolves around consumption: what to buy, what was just bought, where to eat, the price of the neighbor's house, what's on sale this week, our clothes or someone else's, the best car on the market this year, where to spend a vacation. Apparently we can't stop eating, shopping, or consuming. Success is measured not in terms of love, wisdom, and maturity but by the size of one's pile of possessions.

Eat, Maturity, Possessions, Shopping, Vacation

When being is divorced from doing, pious thoughts become an adequate substitute for washing dirty feet.

Adequate, Dirty, Divorced, Feet, Pious

While the impostor draws his identity from past achievements and the adulation of others, the true self claims identity in its belovedness. We encounter God in the ordinariness of life: not in the search for spiritual highs and extraordinary, mystical experiences but in our simple presence in life.

Adulation, Impostor, Mystical, Past, Simple, Spiritual

I believe that the real difference in the American church is not between conservatives and liberals, fundamentalists and charismatics, nor between Republicans and Democrats. The real difference is between the aware and the unaware.

Believe, Charismatics, Conservatives, Differences, Liberals, Real

Define yourself radically as one beloved by God. This is the true self. Every other identity is illusion.

Beloved, Identity, Love, Self

How glorious the splendor of a human heart that trusts that it is loved!

Heart, Splendor, Glorious, Loved, Trusts

Silent solitude makes true speech possible and personal. If I am not in touch with my own belovedness, then I cannot touch the sacredness of others. If I am estranged from myself, I am likewise a stranger to others.

Identity, Juicy, Personal, Sacredness, Solitude, Touch

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