We do not consecrate the flag by punishing its desecration, for in doing so, we dilute the freedom this cherished emblem represents.


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What makes authentic disciples is not visions, ecstasies, biblical mastery of chapter and verse, or ...
BRENNAN MANNING
Foster also reflects the frustrations which so many colleges feel about the structures imposed on th...
JOHN BRENNAN
Anyone who might assert that our numbers were intentionally skewed is mistaken.
JOHN BRENNAN
We don't know the cause of death, but there was a knocked-over propane lantern in the tent, which wa...
DAVE BRENNAN
The dominant characteristic of an authentic spiritual life is the gratitude that flows from trust - ...
BRENNAN MANNING
We needed reassurance. I needed reassurance.
JACK BRENNAN
We were so close in some of those games that we easily could have been 17-3 at the end of the season...
JOE BRENNAN
It was very similar to the game we had last week. We got a big lead and they came back hard. They're...
JOE BRENNAN
They're a good team, a scrappy team. They always find a way to get back in games. Their hustle and s...
JOE BRENNAN
We talked about it before the game. If we could come out and shoot the ball well, that's a real key ...
JOE BRENNAN
Someone might want to buy a special bottle to commemorate an occasion. Or someone might want to roll...
TED BRENNAN
Whenever religion shows contempt or disregards the rights of persons, even under the noblest pretext...
BRENNAN MANNING
He is the only God man has ever heard of who loves sinners. False gods—the gods of human manufactu...
BRENNAN MANNING
The God of the legalistic Christian, on the other hand, is often unpredictable, erratic, and capable...
BRENNAN MANNING
Nowhere in the New Testament is the privileged position of turkeys, nobodies, and marginal people on...
BRENNAN MANNING
One thing we do know: We don’t comprehend the love of Jesus Christ.
BRENNAN MANNING
the real dichotomy in the Christian community today is not between conservatives and liberals or cre...
BRENNAN MANNING
If in our hearts we really don’t believe that God loves us as we are, if we are still tainted by t...
BRENNAN MANNING
The spiritual future of ragamuffins consists not in disavowing that we are sinners but in accepting ...
BRENNAN MANNING
Yes, God saved us because He loved us. But He is God. He has infinite imagination. Couldn’t He hav...
BRENNAN MANNING
The trouble with our ideals is that if we live up to all of them, we become impossible to live with.
BRENNAN MANNING
Suffering, failure, loneliness, sorrow, discouragement, and death will be part of your journey, but ...
BRENNAN MANNING
The sinners to whom Jesus directed His messianic ministry were not those who skipped morning devotio...
BRENNAN MANNING
And Grace calls out, 'You are not just a disillusioned old man who may die soon, a middle-aged woman...
BRENNAN MANNING
The gospel declares that no matter how dutiful or prayerful we are, we can't save ourselves. What Je...
BRENNAN MANNING
When I get honest, I admit I am a bundle of paradoxes. I believe and I doubt, I hope and get discour...
BRENNAN MANNING
For those who feel their lives are a grave disappointment to God, it requires enormous trust and rec...
BRENNAN MANNING
We should be astonished at the goodness of God, stunned that He should bother to call us by name, ou...
BRENNAN MANNING
The temptation of the age is to look good without being good.
BRENNAN MANNING
Authentic faith leads us to treat others with unconditional seriousness and to a loving reverence fo...
BRENNAN MANNING
Everybody has a vocation to some form of life-work. However, behind that call (and deeper than any c...
BRENNAN MANNING
When I get honest, I admit I am a bundle of paradoxes. I believe and I doubt, I hope and get discour...
BRENNAN MANNING
Our hearts of stone become hearts of flesh when we learn where the outcast weeps.
BRENNAN MANNING
Live in the wisdom of accepted tenderness. Tenderness awakens within the security of knowing we are ...
BRENNAN MANNING
Our identity rests in God's relentless tenderness for us revealed in Jesus Christ.
BRENNAN MANNING
As we come to grips with our own selfishness and stupidity, we make friends with the impostor and ac...
BRENNAN MANNING
Stop comparing or boast at your victories. He was referring to enormous vitality and strength of God...
BRENNAN MANNING
The engaged mind, illuminated by truth, awakens awareness; the engaged heart, affected by love, awak...
BRENNAN MANNING
While the impostor draws his identity from past achievements and the adulation of others, the true s...
BRENNAN MANNING
To ignore, repress, or dismiss our feelings is to fail to listen to the stirrings of the Spirit with...
BRENNAN MANNING
Silent solitude makes true speech possible and personal. If I am not in touch with my own belovednes...
BRENNAN MANNING
When we wallow in guilt, remorse, and shame over real or imagined sins of the past, we are disdainin...
BRENNAN MANNING
The death of Jesus Christ on the cross is His greatest single act of unwavering trust in His Abba’...
BRENNAN MANNING
[The] insistence on the absolutely indiscriminate nature of compassion within the Kingdom is the dom...
BRENNAN MANNING
We're looking forward to another good season.
BARBARA BRENNAN
We've talked about it,
BARBARA BRENNAN
We had six, lost three, then gained three, and have six again. We have a nice group. Annmarie, Kathy...
BARBARA BRENNAN
He's always been a good shooter. Nobody knew about him and I'm sure these guys didn't. I knew they w...
RICH BRENNAN
I had rather face wild beasts and diseases than the perils of civilization."
There is a proverb...
MARIE BRENNAN
Because salvation is by grace through faith, I believe that among the countless number of people sta...
BRENNAN MANNING
Trust is that rare and priceless treasure that wins us the affection of our heavenly Father.
BRENNAN MANNING
The ragamuffin who sees his life as a voyage of discovery and runs the risk of failure has a better ...
BRENNAN MANNING