Bo Brennan Quotes

Be daring enough to be different, humble enough to make mistakes, wild enough to be burnt in the fire of love, real enough to make others see how phony you are.

God loves you unconditionally, as you are and not as you should be, because nobody is as they should be.

To be alive is to be broken; to be broken is to stand in need of grace.

My deepest awareness of myself is that I am deeply loved by Jesus Christ and I have done nothing to earn it or deserve it.

A saint is not someone who is good but who experiences the goodness of God.

In every encounter we either give life or we drain it; there is no neutral exchange.

To live by grace means to acknowledge my whole life story, the light side and the dark. In admitting my shadow side I learn who I am and what God's grace means.

Jesus comes not for the super-spiritual but for the wobbly and the weak-kneed who know they don’t have it all together, and who are not too proud to accept the handout of amazing grace.

Our identity rests in God's relentless tenderness for us revealed in Jesus Christ.

Death is not only an unusually severe punishment, unusual in its pain, in its finality and in its enormity, but is serves no penal purpose more effectively than a less severe punishment.

Poor animals! How jealously they guard their pathetic bodies...that which to us is merely an evening's meal, but to them is life itself.

In Love's service, only wounded soldiers can serve.

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

The litmus test of our love for God is our love of neighbor.

If the right to privacy means anything, it is the right of the individual, married or single, to be free from unwarranted governmental intrusion.

The gospel declares that no matter how dutiful or prayerful we are, we can't save ourselves. What Jesus did was sufficient.

There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes.

That which is denied cannot be healed.

Home is a place in the mind. When it is empty, it frets. It is fretful with memory, faces and places and times gone by. Beloved images rise up in disobedience and make a mirror for emptiness.

The deepest desire of our hearts is for union for God. God created us for union with himself. This is the original purpose of our lives.

Unfortunately, in war, there are casualties, including among the civilian population.

Real life is sometimes boring, rarely conclusive and boy, does the dialogue need work.

We should be astonished at the goodness of God, stunned that He should bother to call us by name, our mouths wide open at His love, bewildered that at this very moment we are standing on holy ground.

Our culture says that ruthless competition is the key to success. Jesus says that ruthless compassion is the purpose of our journey.

Dig until you hit rock. Then take out that jackhammer and go a little deeper.

Jesus reveals a God who does not demand but who gives; who does not oppress but who raises up; who does not wound but who heals; who does not condemn but forgives.

How glorious the splendor of a human heart that trusts that it is loved!

The body is a self-healing organism, so it's really about clearing things out of the way so the body can heal itself.

We must meet the challenge rather than wish it were not before us.

Define yourself radically as one beloved by God. This is the true self. Every other identity is illusion.

Our hearts of stone become hearts of flesh when we learn where the outcast weeps.

When a man or woman is truly honest, it is virtually impossible to insult them personally.

Jesus comes for sinners, for those outcast...and those caught up in squalid choices and failed dreams.

We even refuse to be our true self with God- and then wonder why we lack intimacy with him.

To lend each other a hand when we're falling, perhaps that's the only work that matters in the end.

We must go out into a desert of some kind (your backyard will do) and come into a personal experience of the awesome love of God.

The Christian with depth is the person who has failed and who has learned to live with it.

Childlike surrender and trust, I believe, is the defining spirit of authentic discipleship.

Craving clarity, we attempt to eliminate the risk of trusting God. Fear of the unknown path stretching ahead of us destroys childlike trust in the Father's active goodness and unrestricted love.

Suffering, failure, loneliness, sorrow, discouragement, and death will be part of your journey, but the Kingdom of God will conquer all these horrors. No evil can resist grace forever.

God is enough. That is the root of peace. When we start seeking something besides Him, we lose it.

We are made for Christ, and nothing less will ever satisfy us.

There is a beautiful transparency to honest disciples who never wear a false face and do not pretend to be anything but who they are.

An untreatable diagnosis is a statement about the medical system, not the patient.

Faithfulness requires the courage to risk everything on Jesus, the willingness to keep growing, and the readiness to risk failure throughout our lives.

We either misdirect or depress great amounts of energy in order to keep ourselves from feeling pain, including what we feel in the moment and being who we are in the moment.

Religious conflict can be the bloodiest and cruelest conflicts that turn people into fanatics.

Any illness is a direct message to you that tells you how you have not been loving who you are, cherishing yourself in order to be who you are. This is the basis of all healing.

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!

How many fingers am I holding up?" he inquired. Lucille regarded him blearily and said, "Avocado.