T.L. Manning Quotes

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

I've always been a player and a person who wanted to be the best at whatever he did.

Money isn't always going to make it happen. It's important to be around people that have the right kind of attitude, being happy about what you're doing.

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.

Pressue is something you feel when you don't know what the hell you're doing.

You can't join a team and give up on it because you lose a few games or things aren't going well.

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.

My idea is, I shine, you shine. If I'm doing well and you're with me, you do well.

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

I committed my life to Christ, and that faith has been most important to me ever since.

The liberal uses the radical's language to achieve the conservative's aim: the preservation of the capitalist system, and the traditional ethnic/racial hierarchy within society.

I'm more like an animalistic rock chick.

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!

What's the difference between a politician and a catfish? One is a wide-mouthed, bottom-feeding, slime sucker - and the other is a fish.

The secret of the mystery is: God is always greater. No matter how great we think Him to be, His love is always greater.

You will trust God to the degree you know you are loved by Him.

In New York, they like winners. They don't like second place.

Be committed to whatever you're doing. That's something I've taken to heart and tried to do with whatever activities I take up.

We miss Jesus' point entirely when we use His words as weapons against others.

When absolute control and rigid obedience pose as love within the family and the local faith-community , we produce trained cowards rather than Christian persons.

I am wonderfully content with a God who does not deal with me as my sins deserve.

My favorite football memory isn't beating Florida or winning the bowl game ... My favorite memories are of playing football with my brothers and my dad in the front yard when I was younger.

Today on planet Earth, may you experience the wonder and beauty of yourself as Abba’s Child and temple of the Holy Spirit through Jesus Christ

The spirituality of wonder knows the world is charged with grace, that while sin and war, disease and death are terribly real, God's loving presence and power in our midst are even more real.

The temptation of the age is to look good without being good.

Tragedy is that our attention centers on what people are not, rather than on what they are and who they might become.

The only kind of love that helps anyone grow is unconditional love.

Sometimes you gotta mess up a little bit to wake up

If you work hard and you play well, all those critics quiet themselves pretty quickly.

It's all about having fun. Play hard and fair, don't hurt anybody. Feel good about what you're doing and how you're doing it.

My dad told us up front, 'Guys, if you want to play sports, go ahead, but it's your decision.

I think we can achieve meaningful change, but only if we demand that the institutions themselves change their behavior.

I've been a leader practically my whole life. I don't know what it is to follow.

There is far more to transitioning in the public eye than money, public relations, and logistics.

Even if I didn't have the support that I have, I would still be fighting the same fights, and I would still be the same person that I am today.

We don't mind working hard to be successful. We don't mind working to be at our best.

At the heart of the fractured soul of America is the frightening chasm of race.

Whatever we have done in the past, be it good or evil, great or small, is irrelevant to our stance before God today. It is only NOW that we are in the presence of God.

Letting ourselves be loved by God is more important than loving God.

I think e-mail is kind of a cheap way to communicate. It's a lazy way of writing a letter, you know.

I could more easily contain Niagara Falls in a teacup than I can comprehend the wild, uncontainable love of God.

The most interesting place I've gone on location was New Orleans

Hope knows that if great trials are avoided great deeds remain undone and the possibility of growth into greatness of soul is aborted.

I want people to see the truth.

Being there every week for my teammates is really important to me. It's about accountability. I hear stuff about the 'toughest quarterback in the league' and all that; what's that mean?

I play, in real life, Kim, who is actually Marshall Mathers ex-wife as of now. She lies and says she is pregnant because she really wants to keep him and he figures her out.

Genuine self-acceptance is not derived from the power of positive thinking, mind games or pop psychology. IT IS AN ACT OF FAITH in the God of grace.