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The cultural propaganda embodied in two liquor advertisements, Living well is the best revenge and Sip it with arrogance, have a curious, perhaps demonic appeal. Consumerism indeed has its own spirituality.

The cultural propaganda embodied in two liquor advertisements, "Living well is the best revenge" and "Sip it with arrogance," have a curious, perhaps demonic appeal. Consumerism indeed has its own spirituality.

Brennan Manning
Revenge, Two, Arrogance

For Ragamuffins, God's name is Mercy. We see our darkness as a prized possession because it drives us into the heart of God. Without mercy our darkness would plunge us into despair - for some, self-destruction. Time alone with God reveals the unfathomable depths of the poverty of the spirit. We are so poor that even our poverty is not our own: It belongs to the mysterium tremendum of a loving God.

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Heart, Self, Names

One of my realizations in such an earthy atmosphere was that many of the burning theological issues in the church were neither burning nor theological.

Brennan Manning
Issues, Atmosphere, Church
Brennan Manning, John Blase (2011). “All Is Grace: A Ragamuffin Memoir”, p.101, David C Cook

[Jesus] matters because of what he brought and what he still brings to ordinary human beings, living their ordinary lives and coping daily with their surroundings. He promises wholeness for their lives. In sharing our weaknesses he gives us strength and and imparts through his companionship a life that has the quality of eternity." (Dallas Willard in Ruthless Trust - Brennan Manning)

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Jesus, Giving, Promise

The life of Jesus suggests that to be like Abba is to show compassion.

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Jesus, Compassion, Shows
Brennan Manning (2015). “Abba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging”, p.48, NavPress

The first step in faith is to stop thinking about God at the time of prayer.-

Brennan Manning
Prayer, Thinking, Firsts
Brennan Manning (2011). “The Signature of Jesus”, p.198, Multnomah

Stop comparing or boast at your victories. He was referring to enormous vitality and strength of God of Jesus seeking union with us. The living acts of a Christian become somehow the acts of Christ.

Brennan Manning
Christian, Jesus, Victory

Creation discloses a power that baffles our minds and beggars our speech. We are enamored and enchanted by God's power. We stutter and stammer about God's holiness. We tremble before God's majesty... and yet, we grow squeamish and skittish before God's love.

Brennan Manning
Mind, Holiness, Speech
Brennan Manning (2008). “The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out”, p.25, Multnomah

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.

Brennan Manning
Vacation, Maturity, Years
Brennan Manning (2011). “The Signature of Jesus”, p.45, Multnomah

Without exposure to potential failure, there is no risk.

Brennan Manning
Risk, Exposure
Brennan Manning (2010). “Ruthless Trust: The Ragamuffin's Path to God”, p.21, Harper Collins

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

All I have learned through trial and error is to stay alert and aware, especially God smiling @ our silliness.

Brennan Manning
Errors, Trial And Error, Trials
Brennan Manning (2009). “The Furious Longing of God”, p.39, David C Cook

I you think you've done it, then you're wrong. Because you're not finished until you have achieved everything that you never thought you could.

Brennan Manning
Motivational, Thinking, Done

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

Brennan Manning
Dirty, Feet, Adequate
Brennan Manning (2015). “Abba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging”, p.124, NavPress

The loss of transcendence has left in its wake the flotsam of distrustful, cynical Christians, angry at a capricious God, and the jetsam of smug bibilolatrists who claim to know precisely what God is thinking and exactly what he plans to do.

Brennan Manning
Christian, Loss, Thinking

God is a kooky God who can scarcely bear to be without us.

Brennan Manning
Bears, Ragamuffin Gospel
Brennan Manning (2008). “The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out”, p.107, Multnomah

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