Quotes from Erwin Raphael McManus

irony is that, while secular leadership has become blatantly spiritual, Christian leadership has become blatantly (and blandly) secular.

The Ten Commandments are the lowest possible standard of humane living.

I found a strange solace and safety in my power of invisibility and made obscurity my residence.

God's will for us is less about our comfort than it is about our contribution. God

You also can't move forward into your future when you are paralyzed by fear.

I made a decision that while cancer may define how I die, it would not define how I live.

Genius is a gift we are given; mastery is the stewardship of our gifts.

reflects who we are. Our soul is the material for all we create.

Discipleship...a process of unleashing the creative potential in each person.

To relive the past is to relinquish the future. If you are willing to let go of the past, then you are ready to step into the future. When you choose to remain stuck in a moment, you become incapable of seizing divine moments.

Imagine a world where love was the rule, where love was the boundary, where it was unthinkable to violate this principle: love your neighbor as yourself.

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

There is only a good fight and a good death for the one whose life is given to the noble.

Robert's Rules of Order becomes the guiding text rather than the pattern of the apostolic church.

It is defeat that strips you bare and forces you to see your truest self. Success allows you to maintain the illusion of who you are. It is in failure that you come to know yourself best. When you face defeat, all you're left with us yourself. It is then you will face your greatest battle.

the unexpected truth that the safest place for a sinful person to go is to God.

La desafortunada realidad es que muchos de nosotros escogeríamos nuestra comodidad en lugar de nuestro destino; escogeríamos la seguridad sobre la oportunidad; preferiríamos conformarnos con menos que sacrificarnos más.

You cannot win the battle for your soul if you choose to live the life of a fool, neglecting the health of your soul and not taking time to refine who you are.

Jesus provides a perfect example of why ownership is not about taking possession of what's in front of you but about taking responsibility for what has been entrusted to you. The men who multiplied the master's wealth were not the owners of that wealth, but they did take ownership of it.

According to Scripture, everything is connected, and every action has at least some effect on the whole.

The warrior trains their mind to know the good and beautiful and true.

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.

The warrior remembers but does not look back. The future is coming from only one direction and that's forward. The warrior has learned that if their mind is lost in the past, they will lose their future.

Hope cannot exist in the past. That's called regret. Hope can exist only in the future. Faith connects us to the future. It also shifts the parameters of our limitations. When we have assurance in things seen, we are limited by what we have, by what we know, and by what we can prove. When we have assurance in things not seen, we now add to our resources everything that exists in the realm of mystery, uncertainty, and endless possibilities.