Faithfulness requires the courage to risk everything on Jesus, the willingness to keep growing, and the readiness to risk failure throughout our lives.
- Brennan Manning
More Quotes By Brennan Manning
For those who feel their lives are a grave disappointment to God, it requires enormous trust and reckless,... What makes authentic disciples is not visions, ecstasies, biblical mastery of chapter and verse, or spectacular success in... The deeper we grow in the Spirit of Jesus Christ, the poorer we become – the more we... Sheer scholarship alone cannot reveal to us the gospel of grace. We must never allow the authority of... Craving clarity, we attempt to eliminate the risk of trusting God. Fear of the unknown path stretching ahead... Suffering, failure, loneliness, sorrow, discouragement, and death will be part of your journey, but the Kingdom of God... Our identity rests in God’s relentless tenderness for us revealed in Jesus Christ.
My deepest awareness of myself is that I am deeply loved by Jesus Christ and I have done... The gospel declares that no matter how dutiful or prayerful we are, we can’t save ourselves. What Jesus... Jesus comes for sinners, for those outcast…and those caught up in squalid choices and failed dreams.
Jesus reveals a God who does not demand but who gives; who does not oppress but who raises... Jesus comes not for the super-spiritual but for the wobbly and the weak-kneed who know they don’t have... Our culture says that ruthless competition is the key to success. Jesus says that ruthless compassion is the... The greatest single cause of atheism in the world today is Christians, who acknowledge Jesus with their lips... The outstretched arms of Jesus exclude no one, not the drunk in the doorway, the panhandler on the...
Leave a comment
