Famous Quotes by Brennan Manning

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

“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. ”

“We must go out into a desert of some kind (your backyard will do) and come into a personal experience of the awesome love of God.”

“Ragamuffins are simple, direct and honest. Their speech is unaffected. They are slow to claim, God told me... As they make their way through the world, they bear wordless, prophetic witness.”