110+ Erwin McManus Quotes On Communication, Gratitude And Creative

Erwin McManus is an American author, speaker, and thought leader. He is the founder and lead pastor of MOSAIC, a church based in Los Angeles, California. He is the author of several books, including The Artisan Soul, An Unstoppable Force, and Chasing Daylight. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Erwin McManus on communication, gratitude, leadership.

Top 10 Erwin McManus Quotes

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. It is insanity to run from God and search for love.
5. The limitations you are willing to accept establish the boundaries of your existence.
6. 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.
7. You need to remember who God is, forget the painful wounds and let Him renew you.
8. If God imagined you at birth, what makes you think He's stopped imagining you now.
9. You cannot wash the feet of a dirty world if you refuse to touch it
10. True religion always moves us to serve others and to give our lives to see those oppressed find freedom.

Erwin McManus Short Quotes

• The most important moments rarely come at a convenient time
• We were created to be expressions of the goodness and wholeness of God.
• Courage is not the absence of fear; it is the absence of self.
• In some sense we are all hypocrites in transition.
• Our citizenship is in eternity; history is our temporary residence.
• Attitude is an accurate monitor of where we fall on the spectrum of pride and humility.
• It is not balance you need but adaptability.
• We can’t change history, but we can create the future.
• Greatness comes with discipline.
• Great dreams require great courage.

Erwin McManus Quotes About Life

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

You're not supposed to die with your potential. A life well lived squeezes all the potential placed within and does something with it. — Erwin McManus

A life well lived is the most exquisite work of art. — Erwin McManus

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. — 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

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. — 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

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. — Erwin McManus

Courage frees us from the fears that would rob us of life itself. — Erwin McManus

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. — Erwin McManus

Erwin McManus Quotes About Love

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. — Erwin McManus

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. — Erwin McManus

Churches all over the country have decided they love their traditions more than their children. — Erwin McManus

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

Love never comes without wounds; faith never comes without failure. — Erwin McManus

Truth should never travel faster than love. — Erwin McManus

Erwin McManus Quotes About Creative

The epicenter of creativity and imagination should be the Church, reflecting the character and glory of God. — Erwin McManus

Is it possible that the creative act is simply the materialization of the future- making the invisible, visible? — Erwin McManus

The future awaits those with the courage to create it. — Erwin McManus

Erwin McManus Famous Quotes And Sayings

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. — Erwin McManus

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. — Erwin McManus

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. — Erwin McManus

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. — Erwin McManus

Love, no matter how you come at it, is a huge risk. It makes it easier for me to remember that God will never reject me because I am not good enough and that any community that has His heart will embrace me as I am. Jesus invites us into a community where imperfect people can find acceptance, love, forgiveness, and a new beginning. — Erwin McManus

Racists are not born, they are raised. Isolation is the breeding ground for racism. The more you come to know the world around you and people different than you the less likely you will become an extremist. The Church needs to bring the world together. — Erwin McManus

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. — Erwin McManus

Sin creates the illusion of freedom. In the end it fools us into seeking freedom from God rather than finding freedom in God. — Erwin McManus

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. — Erwin McManus

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. — Erwin McManus

The Christian faith grew through story - not text. Only later did the stories become Scripture. While the Scripture must be held in the highest regard, we must not neglect the power of story. — Erwin McManus

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. — Erwin McManus

The church must acclimate to a changing world, or she will destine herself to irrelevance or even extinction. ...One of those dramatic changes in our environment is the shift from words to images. To do church in a way that is entirely text driven is the kiss of death. — Erwin McManus

It's not your freedom to choose that makes you free. It's what you choose in that freedom that makes you free. — Erwin McManus

I refused to let go of what I had. — Erwin McManus

The Church is not segregated by region or cities. That's an antiquated view of the world. We are united with churches all over the world working toward common goals based on shared values. Mosaic is one of the most racially diverse churches on the planet. Our community and extended Church family is global and completely integrated. — Erwin McManus

Jesus did not have a value for prayer for prayer's sake. He had a value for the intimate communion between God and man. — Erwin McManus

I guess when I really think about it, God's voice sounds a lot like my voice. — Erwin McManus

It’s a wonderful thing when you look inside your own heart and like what you see. — Erwin McManus

We have to ask ourselves, 'Am I really trying to discern God's will, or determine whether I want to do it?' — Erwin McManus

All the evidence you need to prove God is waiting within you to be discovered. — Erwin McManus

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 — Erwin McManus

What is the future you're creating right now? — Erwin McManus

Deeper than our instinct to live is our longing to be alive. — Erwin McManus

You are an artist. What work of art will you leave behind? — Erwin McManus

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. — Erwin McManus

The greatest enemy to the movement of Jesus Christ is Christianity. — Erwin McManus

As a speaker, I can inspire people to change but as a writer I can guide people to change. That's why books are so important. As a pastor, though, I can be a part of creating the change the world so desperately needs. — Erwin McManus

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. — 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

Faith is the determination to create with our lives what only our hearts can conceive. — Erwin McManus

We are all time voyagers leaving history in our wake, pioneering into the future. — Erwin McManus

People who are fully alive look out of their minds to those who simply exist. — Erwin McManus

So many of us have abdicated our passions for obligations, as if passion is a luxury for the young, and we must all grow up one day. We, even if reluctantly, fall into place to live a life of conformity that we describe as ‘maturity.’ We’ve made acting like an adult synonymous with living apathetic lives. — Erwin McManus

The future belongs to those who have the courage to create it. We need a new humanity. We need a new expression of community. We need the Church to bring the world together. This makes me excited. — Erwin McManus

We need to advocate for social justice and reform so that all minorities are protected not only under the law but more importantly by our cultural values and ethic. The law cannot change the human heart. Government is limited in its ability to effect culture. This is the role and responsibility of the Church. Only Jesus can move us from hate to love. — Erwin McManus

When calling for authenticity, we need to take seriously the brokenness and sinfulness of the human heart. If to be authentic means to be who we really are or to express what we really feel, then in most cases I’m going to vote for hypocrisy. Our prisons are filled with men and women who acted on their feelings and impulses. If authenticity is about being true to yourself, these individuals should be our models of inspiration. — Erwin McManus

The journey to freedom is paved by the substance of our character. — Erwin McManus

The church is not here to meet our needs. We are the church here to meet the needs of the world. — Erwin McManus

A person God himself deems as wise is one who not only hears His voice, but immediately begins to act upon His instruction. — Erwin McManus

The first and most important step in the process of becoming genuinely is to be once again authenticated by the original designer. — Erwin McManus

Jesus is being lost in a religion bearing his name. — Erwin McManus

Far too often, when we think we are frightened by mystery, the fact is that we are haunted by history. — Erwin McManus

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. — Erwin McManus

I am convinced the Church is the greatest hope for humanity and for creating a new world where everyone is valued and embraced regardless of differences. — Erwin McManus

God gives God-sized dreams to people with God-shaped hearts. — Erwin McManus

If you were meant to fly, not even running really fast is that impressive. — Erwin McManus

Humility is not about having a low self-image or poor self-esteem. Humility is about self-awareness. — Erwin McManus

Whoever tells the best story shapes the culture. — Erwin McManus

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

My goal is to destroy Christianity. — 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. — Erwin McManus

For years I have made it my mission to destroy the influence of the Christian clich, 'the safest place to be is in the center of the will of God.' God would never choose for us safety at the cost of significance. God created you so that your life would count, not so that you could count the days of your life. — Erwin McManus

The Last Arrow transcends a moment or an issue. It is a call to move beyond self-indulgence to a life of sacrificial service. In The Last Arrow I address a broad spectrum of issues from the Syrian refugee crisis to the cultural epidemic of depression to the personal struggle of insignificance. The Last Arrow is a clarion call to make a difference in the world rather than a self-help book for personal self-improvement. — Erwin McManus

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. — Erwin McManus

When we lack integrity, we use power to control. When we lead with integrity, we use power to bless. — Erwin McManus

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

Behind real freedom, there lies discipline. — Erwin McManus

Your dreams are the product of your longings, a portrait of your potential, and a promise of your future. — Erwin McManus

God clarifies in the midst of obedience, not beforehand. — Erwin McManus

The church does not exist for us. We are the church, and we exist for the world. — Erwin McManus

We may not be able to accomplish everything we can dream, but we will not accomplish anything without our dreams — Erwin McManus

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. — Erwin McManus

The world doesn't need more great leaders, it needs more great people who lead. — Erwin McManus

The more isolated and disconnected we are, the more shattered and distorted our self-identity. We are not healthy when we are alone. We find ourselves when we connect to others. Without community we don't know who we are... When we live outside of healthy community, we not only lose others. We lose ourselves...Who we understand ourselves to be is dramatically affected for better or worse by those we hold closest to us. — Erwin McManus

Jesus beckons his followers to a path that's far from the easy road. It's a path filled with adventure, uncertainty, and unlimited possibilities - the only path that can fulfill the deepest longings and desires of your heart. — Erwin McManus

I am convinced most Americans - yes even white Americans - are committed to justice and equality for all people. I am convinced that most Americans are disgusted and even ashamed that Nazism is alive and well in this country that fought to defeat its evil ideology. — Erwin McManus

You are both a work of art and an artist at work. — Erwin McManus

When you're passionate about God, you can trust your passions. — Erwin McManus

To be apathetic is literally to be without passion. — Erwin McManus

The shape of your character is the shape of your future. — Erwin McManus

Life Lessons by Erwin McManus

1. Erwin McManus emphasizes the importance of creativity, courage, and faith in achieving success. He encourages readers to take risks and think outside the box in order to make a difference in their lives and in the world.
2. McManus also stresses the importance of embracing failure as a learning experience and using it to become stronger and wiser. He encourages readers to be open to change and to continually challenge themselves to grow and develop.
3. Lastly, McManus teaches readers to be mindful of their purpose and to stay focused on their goals. He encourages readers to stay true to themselves and to use their gifts to make a positive impact on the world.