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.

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.

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

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

The history of God's people is not a record of God searching for courageous men and women who could handle the task, but God transforming the hearts of cowards and calling them to live courageous lives.

God allows and at times causes us to go through the kinds of circumstances that strip away all falsehood and leave us with our real selves. God's ultimate intent is not to leave us faithless, but to leave us faith-full. There are few things as exhilarating as going through the fire and finding that you had the resilience to make it through. All of us wonder at times whether we have what it takes. God wants to bring us to a place where we have no doubt of the work He has done within us.

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

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

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

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.

When the church becomes an institution, people are nothing more than volunteers to be recruited. When the church is a movement, our stewardship becomes the unleashing of our God-given gifts, talents, and passions.

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

Would you be willing to give your life to save the world if no one ever knew your name? If anonymity was the price you would have to pay for significance, would it be too great a price? To live a life of courage is not a guarantee of prestige or adulation. It only matters if you live and die fulfilling the mission you were born for.

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

Your soul craves truth, beauty, wonder, love. Your soul craves to dream, to imagine, and even simply to understand. Your soul craves to connect, to commune, to create.

What is the future you're creating right now?

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

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

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.

Great dreams require great courage.

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

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

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

Love, no matter how you come at it, is a huge risk. It makes it easier for me to remember that God will never reject me because I am not good enough and that any community that has His heart will embrace me as I am. Jesus invites us into a community where imperfect people can find acceptance, love, forgiveness, and a new beginning.

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