Erwin McManus Quotes - Page 2

The most important moments rarely come at a convenient time

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.

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.

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

For years I have made it my mission to destroy the influence of the Christian clich, 'the safest place to be is in the center of the will of God.' God would never choose for us safety at the cost of significance. God created you so that your life would count, not so that you could count the days of your life.

If our children are going to walk away from Christ, we need to raise them in such a way that they understand that to walk away from Jesus is to walk away from a life of faith, risk and adventure and to choose a life that boring, mundane and ordinary

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

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

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

How is it, that for many of us, being a good Christian is nothing more than being a good person? The entire focus of our faith has been the elimination of sin, which is important but inadequate; rather than the unleashing of a unique, original, extraordinary, wonderfully untamed, faith.

It's not your freedom to choose that makes you free. It's what you choose in that freedom that makes you free.

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

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

When you live your life knowing the mission and calling and voice of God in your soul and you know where that compass is driving you forward, you will become a rare commodity in a world searching for direction.

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

God clarifies in the midst of obedience, not beforehand.

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

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

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

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

The more isolated and disconnected we are, the more shattered and distorted our self-identity. We are not healthy when we are alone. We find ourselves when we connect to others. Without community we don't know who we are... When we live outside of healthy community, we not only lose others. We lose ourselves...Who we understand ourselves to be is dramatically affected for better or worse by those we hold closest to us.

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

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

It’s a wonderful thing when you look inside your own heart and like what you see.

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.