The Ragamuffin Gospel
by Brennan Manning
Favorite Quotes
“The Good News of the gospel of grace cries out: We are all equally privileged but unentitled beggars at the door of God’s mercy.”
“The child of God knows that the graced life calls him or her to live on a cold and windy mountain, not on the flattened plain of reasonable, middle-of-the-road religion.”
“To be alive is to be broken. And to be broken is to stand in need of grace.”
“Home is not a heavenly mansion in the afterlife but a safe place right in the midst of our anxious world.”
“The call asks, Do you really accept the message that God is head over heels in love with you? I believe that this question is at the core of our ability to mature and grow spiritually. If in our hearts we really don’t believe that God loves us as we are, if we are still tainted by the lie that we can do something to make God love us more, we are rejecting the message of the cross.”
“Our eyes reveal whether our souls are spacious or cramped, hospitable or critical, compassionate or judgmental. The way we see other people is usually the way we see ourselves. If we have made peace with our flawed humanity and embraced our ragamuffin identity, we are able to tolerate in others what was previously unacceptable in ourselves.”