Erwin McManus Quotes

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• 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.

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  Mystery, Life Is, Surprise

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• 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.

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  Hate, Confused, Blessing

  Erwin Raphael McManus (2008). “Wide Awake: The Future Is Waiting Within You”, p.106, Thomas Nelson

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

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  Church, Doe, World

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• 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.

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  Heart, Men, People

  Erwin Raphael McManus (2006). “Uprising: A Revolution of the Soul”, p.89, Thomas Nelson

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

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  Outcomes, Chance, Process

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• 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.

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  Real, Fire, Self

  Erwin Raphael McManus (2006). “Uprising: A Revolution of the Soul”, p.210, Thomas Nelson Inc

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

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  Dream, Heart, People

  Erwin Raphael McManus (2008). “Wide Awake: The Future Is Waiting Within You”, p.21, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• What is the future you're creating right now?

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  Creating, Right Now

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

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  Boundaries, Accepting, Existence

  Erwin Raphael McManus (2008). “Wide Awake: The Future Is Waiting Within You”, p.10, Thomas Nelson Inc

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

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  Dirty, Feet, World

  Erwin Raphael McManus (2013). “An Unstoppable Force: Daring to Become the Church God Had in Mind”, p.35, David C Cook

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• 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.

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  Passion, Volunteer, People

  Erwin Raphael McManus (2011). “Unleashed: Release the Untamed Faith Within”, p.102, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• 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.

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  Hypocrite, Journey, Transition

  Erwin Raphael McManus (2008). “Soul Cravings: An Exploration of the Human Spirit”, p.77, Thomas Nelson Inc

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

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  Running, Insanity, Searching For Love

  Erwin Raphael McManus (2008). “Soul Cravings: An Exploration of the Human Spirit”, p.50, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• 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.

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  Names, Giving, Pay

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

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  Gratitude, Past, Perspective

  Erwin Raphael McManus (2006). “Stand Against the Wind: Fuel for the Revolution of Your Soul”, p.28, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Great dreams require great courage.

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  Dream

  Erwin Raphael McManus (2006). “Uprising: A Revolution of the Soul”, p.89, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• 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.

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  Dream, Love You, Wonder Love

  Erwin Raphael McManus (2008). “Soul Cravings: An Exploration of the Human Spirit”, p.258, Thomas Nelson Inc

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

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  Struggle, Purpose, Endure

  Erwin Raphael McManus (2008). “Soul Cravings: An Exploration of the Human Spirit”, p.109, Thomas Nelson Inc

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

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  Thinking, Make You Think, Birth

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• 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.

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  Jesus, Reality, People

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

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  Church, Needs, World

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

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  Danger, Dangerous, God's Will

  Erwin Raphael McManus (2013). “An Unstoppable Force: Daring to Become the Church God Had in Mind”, p.50, David C Cook

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• 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.

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  Waiting, Risk, World

  Erwin Raphael McManus (2011). “Unleashed: Release the Untamed Faith Within”, p.53, Thomas Nelson Inc

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

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  Real, Opportunity

  Erwin Raphael McManus (2006). “Uprising: A Revolution of the Soul”, p.82, Thomas Nelson Inc

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

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  Wounds

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