A Glimpse of Jesus Quotes

“To say to an Orthodox Jew, “I would like to have dinner with you,” is understood as “I would like to enter into friendship with you.” Even today, members of Orthodox Jewry will share a donut and a cup of coffee with you, but when they extend a dinner invitation, they are saying, “Come to my mikdash me-at, my miniature sanctuary, my dining-room table, and we will celebrate the most beautiful experience that life affords—friendship.” That is what Zacchaeus heard when Jesus called him down from the sycamore tree,”
― Brennan Manning, A Glimpse of Jesus: The Stranger to Self-Hatred

“It takes a profound conversion to accept the belief that God is tender and loves us just as we are, not in spite of our sins and faults, but with them. God does not condone or sanction evil, but he does not withhold his love because there is evil in us. The key to this understanding is the way we feel about ourselves. We cannot even stand or accept love from another human being when we do not love ourselves, much less believe or accept that God could possibly love us.6”
― Brennan Manning, A Glimpse of Jesus: The Stranger to Self-Hatred

“But the moment I knelt down my mind was filled with the image of a three-year-old boy playing on the rug in his living room. Off in the corner his mother sat on the floor in the lotus position, knitting. Suddenly she dropped her work and beckoned to him. He toddled over and climbed up on her lap. She smiled down at him and asked softly, “How much do you love me?” He extended his tiny arms as far as they would go and exclaimed, “This much I love you.” In an instant, it was thirty-some years later; the little boy in the fullness of manhood hung nailed to a crossbeam. His mother looked up and said, “How much do you love me?” His arms were stretched out to the ends of the universe. “This much I love you.” And he died.”
― Brennan Manning, A Glimpse of Jesus: The Stranger to Self-Hatred

“We can only sense ourselves and our world valued and cherished by God when we feel valued and cherished by others '.”
― Brennan Manning, A Glimpse of Jesus: The Stranger to Self-Hatred – Examining His Life and Accepting the Transforming Power of God's Love

“We Americans make up only 5 percent of the world’s population, but each year we consume almost half of the world’s production of natural resources.”
― Brennan Manning, A Glimpse of Jesus: The Stranger to Self-Hatred

“Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious convictions.”
― Brennan Manning, A Glimpse of Jesus: The Stranger to Self-Hatred

“Moralism and its stepchild, legalism, reduce the love story of God for his people to the observance of burdensome duties and oppressive laws.”
― Brennan Manning, A Glimpse of Jesus: The Stranger to Self-Hatred

“The harlots who have no imagined righteousness to protect will be dancing into the Kingdom while you have your alleged virtue burned out of you!”
― Brennan Manning, A Glimpse of Jesus: The Stranger to Self-Hatred