The Signature of Jesus: The Call to a Life Marked by Holy Passion and Relentless Faith by Brennan Manning
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“The gospel will persuade no one unless it has so convicted us that we are transformed by it.”
― Brennan Manning, The Signature of Jesus
― Brennan Manning, The Signature of Jesus
“For the Christian one dislocating, self-impoverishing hour spent with a child living in a broken-down dump is worth more than all the burial mounds of rhetoric, all the enfeebled good intentions, all the mumbling and fumbling and tardiness of those Christians who are so busy cultivating their own holiness that they cannot hear the anguished cry of the child in the slum.”
― Brennan Manning, The Signature of Jesus: The Call to a Life Marked by Holy Passion and Relentless Faith
― Brennan Manning, The Signature of Jesus: The Call to a Life Marked by Holy Passion and Relentless Faith
“discipleship, or the following of Christ, was not simply the most important thing in life—it was the only thing.”
― Brennan Manning, The Signature of Jesus
― Brennan Manning, The Signature of Jesus
“Each time we deal a mortal blow to the ego, the pasch of Jesus is traced in our flesh. Each time we choose to walk the extra mile, to turn the other cheek, to embrace and not reject, to be compassionate and not competitive, to kiss and not bite, to forgive and not massage the latest bruise to our wounded ego, we are breaking through from death to life.”
― Brennan Manning, The Signature of Jesus
― Brennan Manning, The Signature of Jesus
“The Crucified says, “Take up your cross not annually, but daily. Forgive those who hate you or hurt you, cheat you or scorn you. Reject the world-wisdom that fastens your identity on money, pleasure, power, and the psychological insights of the social sciences; find your true self in the faith-wisdom of my servant Paul: ‘Christ loved us and gave himself up for us’ (Ephesians 5:2).” Is such power and wisdom within the reach of an ordinary disciple? Yes! But only if we realize that what Jesus commands, he empowers us to do. We can live the crucified lifestyle, not because we are Supermen or Wonder Women, but only because he lives in us. “I have been crucified with Christ and yet I am alive; yet it is no longer I, but Christ living in me” (Galatians 2:20, NJB). Jesus Christ nailed to the cross is the power and wisdom of God. He is ours as well.”
― Brennan Manning, The Signature of Jesus
― Brennan Manning, The Signature of Jesus
“In his landmark work The Crucified God, Jürgen Moltmann says, “We have made the bitterness of the Cross tolerable to ourselves by learning to understand it as a theological necessity for the process of salvation.”3 Of course, theological necessities do not sweat blood in the night.”
― Brennan Manning, The Signature of Jesus
― Brennan Manning, The Signature of Jesus
“As Emile Leger said when he left his mansion in Montreal to go live in a leper colony in Africa, “The time for talking is over.”
― Brennan Manning, The Signature of Jesus
― Brennan Manning, The Signature of Jesus
“his cry on the cross was our cry of desperate alienation from God taken up into his and transformed through the resurrection. As we allow ourselves to experience our own pain, we can know that what we feel is Christ suffering in us and redeeming us. Rather than condemning ourselves for our weakness and making self-conscious efforts to try harder, we can allow the Crucified to love us in our brokenness. There is no way of healing from the wounds each of us carries except through the love of Jesus that forgives seventy times seven and keeps no score of our wrongdoing.”
― Brennan Manning, The Signature of Jesus
― Brennan Manning, The Signature of Jesus
“The greatest need for our time is for the church to become what it has seldom been: the body of Christ with its face to the world, loving others regardless of religion or culture, pouring itself out in a life of service, offering hope to a frightened world, and presenting itself as a real alternative to the existing arrangement.”
― Brennan Manning, The Signature of Jesus
― Brennan Manning, The Signature of Jesus
“Prayer is simply relaxing and delighting in Jesus with no agenda except celebrating the deep affection between you. This interpersonal encounter deepens the sense of our own belovedness and alters our relationships with others.”
― Brennan Manning, The Signature of Jesus
― Brennan Manning, The Signature of Jesus
“The signature of Jesus, the Cross, is the ultimate expression of God’s love for the world. The church is the church of the crucified, risen Christ only when it is stamped with his signature; only when it faces outward and moves with him along the way of the Cross. Turned inward upon itself in bickering and theological hairsplitting, the church loses its identity and its mission.”
― Brennan Manning, The Signature of Jesus
― Brennan Manning, The Signature of Jesus
“Thomas Merton to write: The modern child may early in his or her existence have natural inclinations toward spirituality. The child may have imagination, originality, a simple and individual response to reality, and even a tendency to moments of thoughtful silence and absorption. All these tendencies, however, are soon destroyed by the dominant culture. The child becomes a yelling, brash, false little monster, brandishing a toy gun or dressed up like some character he has seen on television. His head is filled with inane slogans, songs, noises, explosions, statistics, brand names, menaces, ribaldries, and cliches. Then, when the child gets to school, he learns to verbalize, rationalize, to pace, to make faces like an advertisement, to need a car and in short, to go through life with an empty head conforming to others, like himself, in togetherness.3”
― Brennan Manning, The Signature of Jesus
― Brennan Manning, The Signature of Jesus
“We do not need to theorize about Jesus; we need to make him present in our time, our culture, and our circumstances. Only”
― Brennan Manning, The Signature of Jesus
― Brennan Manning, The Signature of Jesus
“When God called Abraham to abandon the security of the world familiar to him, he also asked Abraham to forsake his polytheistic religious beliefs. All his previous concepts of God faded away. The same process is necessary for us. When we encounter the God revealed by and in Jesus Christ, we must revise all our previous thinking about God. Jesus, as the revealer of the Godhead, defines God as love. In light of this revelation, we have to abandon the cankerous, worm-eaten structure of legalism, moralism, and perfectionism that corrupts the Good News into an ethical code rather than a love affair.”
― Brennan Manning, The Signature of Jesus
― Brennan Manning, The Signature of Jesus
“A beautiful game plan. If indeed we lived a life in imitation of his, our witness would be irresistible. If we dared to live beyond our self-concern; if we refused to shrink from being vulnerable; if we took nothing but a compassionate attitude toward the world; if we were a counterculture to our nation’s lunatic lust for pride of place, power, and possessions; if we preferred to be faithful rather than successful, the walls of indifference to Jesus Christ would crumble. A handful of us could be ignored by society; but hundreds, thousands, millions of such servants would overwhelm the world. Christians filled with the authenticity, commitment, and generosity of Jesus would be the most spectacular sign in the history of the human race. The call of Jesus is revolutionary. If we implemented it, we would change the world in a few months.”
― Brennan Manning, The Signature of Jesus
― Brennan Manning, The Signature of Jesus
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