Erwin McManus
19 quotes.
Quotes by Erwin McManus
- 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.
- God gives God-sized dreams to people with God-shaped hearts.
- Gratitude changes your perspective about life. You see the future, experience the present, and remember the past in a dramatically different way.
- 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.
- If God imagined you at birth, what makes you think He's stopped imagining you now.
- It is amazing how much we can endure when we are convinced there is a purpose to our struggle.
- 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.
- The church does not exist for us. We are the church, and we exist for the world.
- 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.
- The limitations you are willing to accept establish the boundaries of your existence.
- The person who loves the process has a much greater chance of success than the person who loves the outcome.
- The real measure of our power is the freedom and opportunity we create for others.
- To live outside of God's will puts us in danger; to live in his will makes us dangerous.
- 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.
- What is the future you're creating right now?
- 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.
- When we lack integrity, we use power to control. When we lead with integrity, we use power to bless.
- You cannot wash the feet of a dirty world if you refuse to touch it
- Your dreams are the product of your longings, a portrait of your potential, and a promise of your future.