Brennan Manning Quotes About Awareness

Quotes about: Awareness

• My deepest awareness of myself is that I am deeply loved by Jesus Christ and I have done nothing to earn it or deserve it.

  Brennan Manning

  Jesus, Done, Awareness

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

• We are not cowed into timidity by death and life. Were we forced to rely on our own shabby resources we would be pitiful people in deed. But the awareness of Christ's present risenness persuades us that we are buoyed up and carried on by a life greater than our own.

  Brennan Manning

  People, Life And Death, Would Be

• The deeper we grow in the Spirit of Jesus Christ, the poorer we become - the more we realize that everything in life is a gift. The tenor of our lives becomes one of humble and joyful thanksgiving. Awareness of our poverty and ineptitude causes us to rejoice in the gift of being called out of darkness into wondrous light and translated into the kingdom of God's beloved Son.

  Brennan Manning

  Jesus, Humble, Son

  Brennan Manning, Michael W. Smith (2000). “The ragamuffin Gospel”, Multnomah

• The engaged mind, illuminated by truth, awakens awareness; the engaged heart, affected by love, awakens passion. May I say once more - this essential energy of the soul is not an ecstatic trance, high emotion or a sanguine stance toward life: It is a fierce longing for God, an unyielding resolve to live in and out of our belovedness. - pg. 152

  Brennan Manning

  Love, Passion, Heart

  Brennan Manning (2015). “Abba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging”, p.134, NavPress

• Won't the awareness God loves us no matter what lead to spiritual laziness and moral laxity? Theoretically, this seems a reasonable fear, but in reality the opposite is true. . . . The more rooted we are in the love of God, the more generously we will live our faith.

  Brennan Manning

  Spiritual, Reality, Opposites

  Brennan Manning (2004). “The Relentless Tenderness of Jesus”, p.28, Revell

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