Top 100 Erwin McManus Quotes
#1. It is insanity to run from God and search for love.
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#2. When we stop believing the world can become a better place, when we stop caring about the lives and conditions of others, we lose a part of ourselves.
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#3. We may not be able to accomplish everything we can dream, but we will not accomplish anything without our dreams
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#4. Your dreams are the product of your longings, a portrait of your potential, and a promise of your future.
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#5. I know it sounds crazy, but as soon as Christians start telling non-Christians how to live their lives, we've lost the Christian faith.
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#6. You are both a work of art and an artist at work.
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#7. God gives God-sized dreams to people with God-shaped hearts.
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#9. There is something powerful about singing to God as an act of worship, but it is time to reframe our perspective and our language to genuinely encompass all of life as worship.
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#10. We need both to aspire and accomplish. Without a vision for your life, without a sense of purpose, you will begin to die a slow death.
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#11. The system of Christian celebrity was not a good space for me, and it was brutal on my kids - my son in college was frequently confronted by people railing against me as a heretic.
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#12. 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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#14. 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.
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#15. Courage frees us from the fears that would rob us of life itself.
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#16. When we look at history, we see history is made up of the heroes of their times. Yet, somehow we miss this when we put on the lens of the Scriptures.
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#17. All the evidence you need to prove God is waiting within you to be discovered.
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#18. My primary assessment would be because American Christians tend to be incredibly self-indulgent, so they see the church as a place there for them to meet their needs and to express faith in a way that is meaningful for them.
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#19. The reality is that every human being is placed on this planet, and one of the things that drives humans is their need for meaning, and if you can make every job meaningful, then you will guarantee that every job will be done to its highest level of excellence.
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#20. We need to understand that Christianity is about changing; it is not about a religion.
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#21. The epicenter of creativity and imagination should be the Church, reflecting the character and glory of God.
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#22. The real measure of our power is the freedom and opportunity we create for others.
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#24. Promise Keepers was looking for a movement that can actualize the hope of Jesus, the hope that we see. And 'Uprising' was what they were looking for.
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#25. So much of what comes out of the faith community seems so dour and somber, and we want to say, 'Hey, we're real people. You can be a person of faith and really enjoy life and laugh.'
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#26. I have an incredible confidence in the resilience of the human spirit and the creative ability of the Holy Spirit. So, if you can get people asking the right questions, it really will start moving in the right direction.
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#27. If you come at the Bible as if it's a document of encyclopedic information, you've pretty much killed any kind of life change in a seeker and unbeliever.
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#28. The word 'entertain' means to hold someone's attention, and what we want is a faith that is vibrant and alive and beautiful and real.
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#29. We were created to be expressions of the goodness and wholeness of God.
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#30. The Bible is not an antiquated text. The scriptures are the text that will lead us into the future.
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#31. God clarifies in the midst of obedience, not beforehand.
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#32. Is it possible that the creative act is simply the materialization of the future- making the invisible, visible?
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#33. I hope my greatest contribution will be to try to extract principles of truth that will cause us to live our lives in a more effective way and to advance Jesus' purpose in the world.
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#34. The most important moments rarely come at a convenient time
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#35. Jesus' death wasn't to free us from dying, but to free us from the fear of death. Jesus came to liberate us so that we could die up front and then live. Jesus Christ wants to take us to places where only dead men and women can go.
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#36. Los Angeles has been known as the center of creativity but has often been equally known for the absence of spirituality.
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#37. 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
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#38. To live outside of God's will puts us in danger; to live in his will makes us dangerous.
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#39. 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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#40. How many people just get up on Monday and do the same thing they've done every single Monday - go to work and just turn on route automatic and no longer have any meaning in their life?
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#41. The future awaits those with the courage to create it.
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#42. People outside of the faith really appreciate Mosaic and really love what we're doing.
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#43. It is amazing how much we can endure when we are convinced there is a purpose to our struggle.
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#44. I think we've overstated that God is the God who wants us to obey. Obedience is not the end game. Obedience is only our calling so that we can step into our freedom.
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#45. If you look at it from just a pure economic basis, technology is replacing all of the jobs robots can do, and machinery is replacing the jobs that humans once held. If we don't train our children to imagine, to create, they're going to be unemployable.
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#46. 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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#47. When we dwell on the past, we tend to want to live there. When we dream of the future, we want to go there. Our dreams are where God paints a picture of a life waiting to be created.
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#48. Churches all over the country have decided they love their traditions more than their children.
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#49. One of the things you'll discover ... as you listen to your own soul is that you spend a great amount of your life trying to bring meaning to your own life. And, by the way, most people are not going to church, so the place they're actually trying to find meaning in their life is at work.
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#50. Our job is not to change people; our job is to connect people to Jesus, and it's Jesus' job to change people.
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#51. Jesus is being lost in a religion bearing his name.
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#52. The church does not exist for us. We are the church, and we exist for the world.
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#53. Religion as a whole specializes in sin management. It's all about organizing humanity in such a way that we cause as little damage as possible.
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#54. 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
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#55. From the beginning, our community has been focused on people outside of Christianity. But that emphasis means that a lot of hard work is represented in every person who is baptized.
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#56. We want to help everyone find meaning in their life and help translate the story that each person actually matters in the world.
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#57. 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.
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#58. 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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#59. You have a generation that is saying we are tapping out of religion in many ways. But what they are not saying is that we are tapping out of a serious search for meaning in life.
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#60. One trend I see is the rejection of growth for self-discovery and the pursuit of authentic community. So we keep whittling our spiritual community to a smaller and smaller and more exclusive inner circle. The problem is if the diagnoses are wrong, so will be the cure.
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#61. Jesus did not have a value for prayer for prayer's sake. He had a value for the intimate communion between God and man.
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#62. Two thousand years ago, God started a revolt against the religion He started. So don't ever put it past God to cause a groundswell movement against churches and Christian institutions that bear His name.
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#63. Deeper than our instinct to live is our longing to be alive.
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#64. Often we talk about God's ability to change lives without fully understanding how to access that power.
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#65. Wherever and whenever God is moving in a new and fresh way, there emerges a new song!
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#66. 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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#67. The bulk of our community is probably between the ages of 20 and 34.
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#68. I think many times Christians don't really take the opportunity to hear what people are saying and seeing in the world around them.
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#69. When we lack integrity, we use power to control. When we lead with integrity, we use power to bless.
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#70. It is the creative and enterprising spirit of people that is indispensable. Everything else is supplemental.
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#71. If you were meant to fly, not even running really fast is that impressive.
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#72. You're not supposed to die with your potential. A life well lived squeezes all the potential placed within and does something with it.
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#73. We are constantly learning and growing and changing. We are really an experiment. We are endeavoring to discover if a community of faith can exist purely for the good of others.
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#74. We're a part of the insurrection, trying to turn Christianity upside down. We're an experimental church: God's research and development arm.
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#76. You are an artist. What work of art will you leave behind?
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#77. 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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#78. I realize that I live on the bubble of insanity. I feel the weight of human suffering, loneliness and despair on me all the time. It's not getting easier; if anything, it's always right on the edge of my skin.
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#79. The shape of your character is the shape of your future.
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#80. I love what Monet, Picasso, Van Gogh and Jesus all said - that love is really the driving principle of the creative act. In fact, they would say that great art is always inspired by love.
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#81. My goal is to destroy Christianity as a world religion and be a recatalyst for the movement of Jesus Christ ... Some people are upset with me because it sounds like I'm anti-Christian. I think they might be right.
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#82. You can plant a church and grow a church. That's not that hard to do, but it's harder to be a viable source of transformation in a city or your time or space.
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#83. 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.
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#87. I had someone a month ago tell me at a campaign lunch that you can't be a Christian and a Democrat. I think that that view is dissipating very, very fast.
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#88. We can't change history, but we can create the future.
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#89. The world doesn't need more great leaders, it needs more great people who lead.
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#90. The Bible has been trapped in modernity. Everything has to work perfectly. And if everything doesn't fit in a Lego-oriented functionality, then we don't deal with it as Christians.
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#91. People who are fully alive look out of their minds to those who simply exist.
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#92. This thing that haunts you, that never seems satisfied, the cravings in your soul that you are unable to satiate through all the success that the world can bring this is your soul screaming for God.
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#93. The person who loves the process has a much greater chance of success than the person who loves the outcome.
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#94. When you begin to create the life of your dreams - or maybe better stated, when you begin to live the life that God dreams for you - you take responsibility to prepare for the future.
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#95. In some sense we are all hypocrites in transition.
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#96. You need to remember who God is, forget the painful wounds and let Him renew you.
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#97. A person God himself deems as wise is one who not only hears His voice, but immediately begins to act upon His instruction.
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#98. The greatest enemy to the movement of Jesus Christ is Christianity.
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#99. 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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#100. Humility is not about having a low self-image or poor self-esteem. Humility is about self-awareness.
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