Erwin McManus Quotes

It is amazing where God will take you when you are willing to follow. Life is full of surprises when we choose mystery over security.

We are all hypocrites in transition. I am not who I want to be, but I am on the journey there, and thankfully I am not whom I used to be.

The church does not exist for us. We are the church, and we exist for the world.

I think a lot of us are not on a path; we're in a rut. We have confused comfort with peace, belief with faith, safety with wisdom, wealth with blessing, and existence with life.

God gives God-sized dreams to people with God-shaped hearts.

It is insanity to run from God and search for love.

The person who loves the process has a much greater chance of success than the person who loves the outcome.

The limitations you are willing to accept establish the boundaries of your existence.

Home is ultimately not about a place to live but about the people with whom you are most fully alive. Home is about love, relationship, community, and belonging, and we are all searching for home.

You need to remember who God is, forget the painful wounds and let Him renew you.

Your dreams are the product of your longings, a portrait of your potential, and a promise of your future.

If God imagined you at birth, what makes you think He's stopped imagining you now.

If you were meant to fly, not even running really fast is that impressive.

A person God himself deems as wise is one who not only hears His voice, but immediately begins to act upon His instruction.

It is amazing how much we can endure when we are convinced there is a purpose to our struggle.

Within a moment there is monumental potential. That is the mystery of a moment. It is small enough to ignore and big enough to change your life forever

God clarifies in the midst of obedience, not beforehand.

The church is not here to meet our needs. We are the church here to meet the needs of the world.

Deeper than our instinct to live is our longing to be alive.

How in the world could you ever imagine a life of faith that does not require risk? Faith and risk are inseparable.

You cannot wash the feet of a dirty world if you refuse to touch it

The world doesn't need more great leaders, it needs more great people who lead.

True religion always moves us to serve others and to give our lives to see those oppressed find freedom.

A world without God cannot wait for us to choose the safe path. If we wait for someone else to take the risk, we risk that no one will ever act and that nothing will ever be accomplished.

I have so much confidence in the reality of Jesus that I feel no pressure to try to make people act or be a certain way. I'm banking everything on the fact that God actually changes people.

Gratitude changes your perspective about life. You see the future, experience the present, and remember the past in a dramatically different way.

We were created to be expressions of the goodness and wholeness of God.

To live outside of God's will puts us in danger; to live in his will makes us dangerous.

You're not supposed to die with your potential. A life well lived squeezes all the potential placed within and does something with it.

The most important moments rarely come at a convenient time

The real measure of our power is the freedom and opportunity we create for others.

We can’t change history, but we can create the future.

Courage is not the absence of fear; it is the absence of self.

Faith is the determination to create with our lives what only our hearts can conceive.

The epicenter of creativity and imagination should be the Church, reflecting the character and glory of God.

Churches all over the country have decided they love their traditions more than their children.

Love never comes without wounds; faith never comes without failure.

Problems, obstacles, and challenges can either become the markers of our limits and limitations, or they can become the springboard into a whole new world.

You are both a work of art and an artist at work.

I think Christianity is the same as Buddhism and Hinduism - whenever a religion begins to say that these are the things you have to do to be loved by God, you have a religion.

Courage frees us from the fears that would rob us of life itself.

Jesus did not have a value for prayer for prayer's sake. He had a value for the intimate communion between God and man.

When we lack integrity, we use power to control. When we lead with integrity, we use power to bless.

Sin creates the illusion of freedom. In the end it fools us into seeking freedom from God rather than finding freedom in God.

You are an artist. What work of art will you leave behind?

The shape of your character is the shape of your future.

I refused to let go of what I had.

The Christian faith grew through story - not text. Only later did the stories become Scripture. While the Scripture must be held in the highest regard, we must not neglect the power of story.

In some sense we are all hypocrites in transition.

Talent doesn't win. Hard work, determination, and character wins. If you root your talent and ability in those things, then you have a powerful combination.