Top 100 Erwin Mcmanus Quotes
#1. Whether we realize it or not, everything we do is an expression of either how alive our souls are or how much we have allowed ourselves to be deadened over time.
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#2. People outside of the faith really appreciate Mosaic and really love what we're doing.
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#3. Most people who describe themselves as visionaries are actually saying something quite different. They are abdicating their responsibility for the details. Details matter. The more someone or something matters to us, the more the details relating to them matter to us.
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#4. The future awaits those with the courage to create it.
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#5. 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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#6. 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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#7. To live outside of God's will puts us in danger; to live in his will makes us dangerous.
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#8. Category. A church doesn't need to pray about whether it should pray. It doesn't need to pray about whether it should serve. It doesn't need to pray about whether it should evangelize.
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#9. 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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#10. Sin creates the illusion of freedom. In the end it fools us into seeking freedom from God rather than finding freedom in God.
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#11. 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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#12. The journey to freedom is paved by the substance of our character.
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#13. I think that's a part of what motivates me in my teaching and writing. Once the Gospel feels mainstream and becomes a nicely organized, orchestrated belief system, frankly, I don't think there is even an attraction to the human spirit.
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#14. I think the exploration and the search for who Jesus is, and that 2,000 years later we're still trying to figure out who He was, and did He really rise from the dead ... And I think for me, the answer is 'yes,' and that's why we're talking about Him today.
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#15. For those of us who embrace the cause of Christ, the cost to participate in the mission of God is nothing less than everything we are and everything we have.
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#16. 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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#17. The most important moments rarely come at a convenient time
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#18. 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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#19. A life well lived is the most exquisite work of art.
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#20. 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.
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#21. Is it possible that the creative act is simply the materialization of the future- making the invisible, visible?
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#22. For believers in persecuted countries. We champion their sacrifice and willingness to stand for Christ, even at the cost of their own lives. Yet we consider laying aside our traditions and cultural preferences as an unreasonable expectation.
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#23. For Christians, they need to access the power of Jesus and not look at Christianity as a religion. It is our Lord Jesus that makes you change, and Christians need to actualize it and put it into practice.
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#24. God clarifies in the midst of obedience, not beforehand.
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#26. 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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#27. 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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#28. If he's just watching, then we're all unwilling participants in the universe's biggest reality show - the original Survivor.
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#29. The limitations you are willing to accept establish the boundaries of your existence.
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#31. 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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#32. The church does not exist for us. We are the church, and we exist for the world.
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#33. Who do we become when we stop allowing all the voices in our head to crowd out the one voice we must hear to come to life?
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#34. When we are freed from the rules and regulations that are so often imposed on us in the name of God, we discover that creativity is the natural result of spirituality. And if this is true, then our soul is the primary material for all artistic expression.
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#35. Jesus is being lost in a religion bearing his name.
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#36. We are called to fear only God. There is an important reason for this. What we fear is what we're subject to; our fears define our master. Where there is no fear, there is no control.
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#38. 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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#39. The Bible is not an antiquated text. The scriptures are the text that will lead us into the future.
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#40. Churches all over the country have decided they love their traditions more than their children.
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#41. 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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#42. 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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#43. How in the world could you ever imagine a life of faith that does not require risk? Faith and risk are inseparable.
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#44. 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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#45. Our lives will become our greatest works of art not only when our relationships are a beautiful expression of love, acceptance, and intimacy, but when we have a deep sense of purpose that produces accomplishments that express, for us, success and significance.
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#46. We focus, in some ways, on how to disengage Jesus and the Bible from everything people know about Christianity as a religion.
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#47. We are all time voyagers leaving history in our wake, pioneering into the future.
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#48. Faith is the determination to create with our lives what only our hearts can conceive.
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#49. 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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#50. It is amazing how much we can endure when we are convinced there is a purpose to our struggle.
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#51. 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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#52. All the evidence you need to prove God is waiting within you to be discovered.
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#53. 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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#54. Courage frees us from the fears that would rob us of life itself.
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#56. 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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#57. While never violating our uniqueness, we move together, united in heart and soul. Our greatness is unleashed in the context of community. When we move together, God is most perfectly revealed in us.
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#58. All art is an expression and extension of ourselves.. Art finds its deepest value when it is the authentic expression of a deep human experience.
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#60. The first and most important step in the process of becoming genuinely is to be once again authenticated by the original designer.
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#61. 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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#62. 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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#63. 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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#64. goal of spirituality is not to extract from you all desire and passion. The call of Jesus is the exact opposite - delight
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#65. It's not your freedom to choose that makes you free. It's what you choose in that freedom that makes you free.
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#67. God gives God-sized dreams to people with God-shaped hearts.
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#68. You are both a work of art and an artist at work.
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#69. 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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#70. Your dreams are the product of your longings, a portrait of your potential, and a promise of your future.
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#71. We may not be able to accomplish everything we can dream, but we will not accomplish anything without our dreams
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#72. 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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#73. I have come to realize, after over thirty years of studying human creativity, that the great divide is not between those who are artists and those who are not, but between those who understand that they are creative and those who have become convinced that they are not.
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#74. It is insanity to run from God and search for love.
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#75. Far too often, when we think we are frightened by mystery, the fact is that we are haunted by history.
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#76. 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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#78. The best use of technology is to enhance the power of worship that is an expression of spirit and truth.
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#79. 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.
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#80. In an ideal world, the voices that teach us language teach us self-respect, self-confidence, and self-esteem. Those same voices also form in us humility and gratitude, and as those voices inform our inner voices, they also pass on wisdom.
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#81. We were created to be expressions of the goodness and wholeness of God.
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#82. 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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#83. What if the creative act is not an act against God but a reflection of His image within us?
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#84. I think Christianity is the same as Buddhism and Hinduism - whenever a religion begins to say that these are the things you have to do to be loved by God, you have a religion.
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#85. 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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#86. 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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#87. The only art we can create is that which authentically reflects who we are. Our soul is the material for all we create. Thus, to nurture the artisan soul, essence is far more important than talent.
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#89. True religion always moves us to serve others and to give our lives to see those oppressed find freedom.
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#90. 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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#92. The real measure of our power is the freedom and opportunity we create for others.
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#93. The epicenter of creativity and imagination should be the Church, reflecting the character and glory of God.
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#94. The fuel of ambition is not the problem; it is the focus of ambition that frees or betrays us.
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#96. We need to understand that Christianity is about changing; it is not about a religion.
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#97. What is your idea of you? Who is it that you have decided to become? If your greatest work of art is the life you live, and ultimately life is a creative act, what life will you choose to leave behind as your masterpiece?
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#98. Three powerful life-changing words passed on from God to us: Now choose life! Right now, this moment, put away the baggage from the past, shake yourself free from the fear of the future unknown. Right now, choose life - seize your divine moment. A
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#99. 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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#100. 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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