Quotes from Erwin McManus
There are few things more powerful than a life lived with passionate clarity.
- Erwin McManus
While we would love to have no criticism, probably if we had no critique, we wouldn't be doing anything meaningful.
- Erwin McManus
True religion always moves us to serve others and to give our lives to see those oppressed find freedom.
- Erwin McManus
Jesus is being lost in a religion bearing his name.
- Erwin McManus
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.
- Erwin McManus
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.
- Erwin McManus
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.
- Erwin McManus
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.
- Erwin McManus
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.
- Erwin McManus
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.
- Erwin McManus
How in the world could you ever imagine a life of faith that does not require risk? Faith and risk are inseparable.
- Erwin McManus
Gratitude changes your perspective about life. You see the future, experience the present, and remember the past in a dramatically different way.
- Erwin McManus