Brennan Manning Quotes About Grace

• Vivir por gracia significa reconocer toda la historia de mi vida, el lado luminoso y el oscuro. Al admitir mi lado oscuro aprendo quién soy y qué significa la gracia de Dios.

  Brennan Manning

  Mean, Dark, Light

  Brennan Manning (2008). “The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out”, p.17, Multnomah

• Our huffing and puffing to impress God, our scrambling for brownie points, our thrashing about trying to fix ourselves while hiding our pettiness and wallowing in guilt are nauseating to God and are a flat denial of the gospel of grace.

  Brennan Manning

  Grace, Trying, Guilt

  Brennan Manning (2008). “The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out”, p.13, Multnomah

• La mera erudición por sí sola no puede revelarnos el evangelio de la gracia. Nunca debemos permitir que la autoridad de libros, instituciones o líderes reemplace la autoridad de CONOCER a Jesucristo personal y directamente. Cuando los puntos de vista religiosos de otros se interponen entre nosotros y la experiencia primaria de Jesús como el Cristo, nos convertimos en agentes de viajes sin convicciones ni persuasión que reparten folletos de lugares que nunca hemos visitado.

  Brennan Manning

  Religious, Jesus, Book

  Brennan Manning (2008). “The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out”, p.29, Multnomah

• Estar vivo es
  estar roto; estar roto es estar necesitado de la gracia.

  Brennan Manning

  Roto, Gracia, Necesidades

  Brennan Manning (2008). "The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out", p.55, Multnomah

• Jesús no viene para los superespirituales, sino para los tambaleantes y los débiles de rodillas que saben que no lo tienen todo, y que no son demasiado orgullosos para aceptar la limosna de una gracia asombrosa.

  Brennan Manning

  Espiritual, Jesús, Gracia

  Brennan Manning (2008). "The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out", p.19, Multnomah

• Suffering, failure, loneliness, sorrow, discouragement, and death will be part of your journey, but the Kingdom of God will conquer all these horrors. No evil can resist grace forever.

  Brennan Manning

  Loneliness, Journey, Evil

• Este es el Dios del Evangelio de la gracia. Un Dios que, por amor a nosotros, envió al único Hijo que tuvo envuelto en nuestra piel. Aprendió a caminar, tropezó y cayó, lloró por su leche, sudó sangre en la noche, fue azotado con un látigo y regado con escupitajos, fue clavado en una cruz y murió susurrando el perdón para todos nosotros.

  Brennan Manning

  Hijo, Noche, Sangre

  Brennan Manning (2008). "The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out", p.26, Multnomah

• Cuando nos revolcamos en la culpa, el remordimiento y la vergüenza por pecados reales o imaginarios del pasado, estamos desdeñando el don de la gracia de Dios.

  Brennan Manning

  Real, Pasado, Gracia

  Brennan Manning (2008). "The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out", p.73, Multnomah

• The sinners to whom Jesus directed His messianic ministry were not those who skipped morning devotions or Sunday church. His ministry was to those whom society considered real sinners. They had done nothing to merit salvation. Yet they opened themselves to the gift that was offered them. On the other hand, the self-righteous placed their trust in the works of the Law and closed their hearts to the message of grace.

  Brennan Manning

  Morning, Jesus, Real

  Brennan Manning (2008). “The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out”, p.38, Multnomah

• Put bluntly, the American church today accepts grace in theory but denies it in practice. We say we believe that the fundamental structure of reality is grace, not works - but our lives refute our faith.

  Brennan Manning

  Believe, Reality, Practice

  Brennan Manning (2008). “The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out”, p.11, Multnomah

• My trust in God flows out of the experience of his loving me, day in and day out, whether the day is stormy or fair, whether I'm sick or in good health, whether I'm in a state of grace or disgrace. He comes to me where I live and loves me as I am.

  Brennan Manning

  Sick, Grace, And Love

• And Grace calls out, 'You are not just a disillusioned old man who may die soon, a middle-aged woman stuck in a job and desperately wanting to get out, a young person feeling the fire in the belly begin to grow cold. You may be insecure, inadequate, mistaken or potbellied. Death, panic, depression, and disillusionment may be near you. But you are not just that. You are accepted.' Never confuse your perception of yourself with the mystery that you really are accepted.

  Brennan Manning

  Jobs, Insecure, Men

  Brennan Manning (2008). "The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out", p.19, Multnomah

• La gracia abunda en las películas, los libros, las novelas, el cine y la música contemporáneos. Si Dios no está en el torbellino, puede estar en una película de Woody Allen, o en un concierto de Bruce Springsteen. La mayoría de la gente entiende mejor las imágenes y los símbolos que la doctrina y el dogma. Las imágenes tocan los corazones y despiertan la imaginación. Un teólogo sugirió que el álbum "Tunnel of Love" de Springsteen, en el que canta simbólicamente al pecado, la muerte, la desesperación y la redención, es más importante para los católicos que la última visita del Papa, cuando habló de moralidad sólo en proposiciones doctrinales.

  Brennan Manning

  Love, Book, Heart

• The gospel of grace nullifies our adulation of televangelists, charismatic superstars, and local church heroes. It obliterates the two-class citizenship theory operative in many American churches. For grace proclaims the awesome truth that all is gift. All that is good is ours, not by right, but by the sheer bounty of a gracious God.

  Brennan Manning

  Hero, Class, Two

  Brennan Manning (2008). "The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out", p.19, Multnomah

• The North American Church is at a critical juncture. The gospel of grace is being confused and compromised by silence, seduction, and outright subversion. The vitality of the faith is being jeopardized. The lying slogans of the fixers who carry religion like a sword of judgment pile up with impunity. Let ragamuffins everywhere gather as a confessing Church to cry out in protest. Revoke the licenses of religious leaders who falsify the idea of God. Sentence them to three years in solitude with the Bible as their only companion.

  Brennan Manning

  Religious, Confused, Lying

• The confessing church of American Ragamuffins needs to join Magdalene and Peter in witnessing that Christianity is not primarily a moral code but a grace-laden mystery; it is not essentially a philosophy of love but a love affair; it is not keeping rules with clenched fists but receiving a gift with open hands.

  Brennan Manning

  Philosophy, Hands, Grace

  Brennan Manning (2008). “The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out”, p.135, Multnomah

• Genuine self-acceptance is not derived from the power of positive thinking, mind games or pop psychology. IT IS AN ACT OF FAITH in the God of grace.

  Brennan Manning

  Self Esteem, Positive Thinking, Acceptance

  Brennan Manning (2008). “The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out”, p.32, Multnomah

• The spirituality of wonder knows the world is charged with grace, that while sin and war, disease and death are terribly real, God's loving presence and power in our midst are even more real.

  Brennan Manning

  Real, War, Disease And Death

  Brennan Manning (2008). “The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out”, p.65, Multnomah

• The Good News of the gospel of grace cries out: We are all, equally, privileged but unentitled beggars at the door of God's mercy!

  Brennan Manning

  Doors, Grace, News

  Brennan Manning (2008). “The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out”, p.17, Multnomah

• The Good News means we can stop lying to ourselves. The sweet sound of amazing grace saves us from the necessity of self-deception. It keeps us from denying that though Christ was victorious, the battle with lust, greed, and pride still rages within us.

  Brennan Manning

  Sweet, Lying, Mean

  Brennan Manning (2008). “The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out”, p.18, Multnomah

• One of the the loveliest lines I have ever read comes from Brother Roger, the Prior of the Protestant monks of Taize, France: 'Assured of your salvation by the unique grace of our Lord Jesus Christ.' It is still difficult for me to read these words without tears filling my eyes. It is wonderful.

  Brennan Manning

  Brother, Jesus, Eye

  Brennan Manning (2008). “The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out”, p.94, Multnomah

• Assured of your salvation by the unique grace of our Lord Jesus Christ" is the heartbeat of the gospel, joyful liberation from fear of the Final Outcome, a summons to self-acceptance, and freedom for a life of compassion toward others.

  Brennan Manning

  Jesus, Acceptance, Unique

  Brennan Manning (2008). “The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out”, p.101, Multnomah

• Justification by grace through faith' is the theologian's learned phrase for what Chesterton once called 'the furious love of G-d.' He is not moody or capricious; He knows no seasons of change. He has a single relentless stance toward us: He loves us. He is the only G-d man has ever heard of who loves sinners. False gods- the gods of human manufacturing- despise sinners, but the Father of (Yeshua) loves all, no matter what they do.

  Brennan Manning

  Father, Men, Grace

• El pecador salvado está postrado en adoración, perdido en el asombro y la alabanza. Sabe que el arrepentimiento no es lo que hacemos para ganarnos el perdón; es lo que hacemos porque hemos sido perdonados. Sirve como expresión de gratitud más que como un esfuerzo por ganarse el perdón. Así, la secuencia de perdón y luego arrepentimiento, en lugar de arrepentimiento y luego perdón, es crucial para entender el evangelio de la gracia.

  Brennan Manning

  Gratitude, Expression, Order

  Brennan Manning (2008). “The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out”, p.48, Multnomah

• By and large, the gospel of grace is neither proclaimed, understood, nor lived.

  Brennan Manning

  Grace, Understood

  Brennan Manning (2008). “The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out”, p.13, Multnomah

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