Quotes from Erwin Raphael McManus

No te lleves tu pasado a tu futuro. No te lo lleves contigo. Tu pasado será tu futuro hasta que hayas tenido la valentía de crear un nuevo futuro.

Solamente cuando entendemos que somos terminales es cuando comenzamos a tratar el tiempo con el respeto que merece.

When we sit under the pomegranate tree protecting the life we have, we risk relinquishing what God really wants for us—to seize our divine destiny.

Hidden in your fears is the faith you are searching for. If you want to meet God, stand in your fears. Stand in your pain. Stand when everything inside you tells you to withdraw. Elijah ran from God and ran right into him.

But you might wonder to yourself: What if I never find love? After all, you can't be held responsible if you've searched for love, risked in love, even fought for love, and yet have always found it unrequited. When love does not come to you, it breaks your heart, but when you do not give love away, it hardens your heart. One thing stranger than our need to be loved is our need to love, which again leads me to my conspiracy theory: We are designed for love.

By the way, if you're running from God, he's already waiting for you, wherever your journey takes you. No matter how far you run, he will be just as close to you as he was when you left.

I have already decided to die with my sword in hand.

There are times when you will choose to walk with God and you will feel as if you are walking alone. Yet you must not forget that you are never alone: God is always with you.

The way we store energy is through our desires, values, passions, hopes, dreams, and aspirations, and ultimately our greatest capacity for energy storage is through what we love.

no debemos permitir que el temor nos robe nuestro futuro, y cada día que caminamos por esta tierra debemos estar seguros de no guardar nada para la próxima vida. Nunca debes permitir que el temor te mantenga atrapado. El momento en que decides jugar a lo seguro, has perdido el partido. En lugar de huir de tus temores, apóyate en ellos, porque al otro lado de ellos está el futuro que anhelas. Esos momentos forman carácter y forjan el futuro.

Our pop theology has eliminated the place for risk and insulated us with a comfort-and-security theology. This view runs counter to what is found in the Scriptures. I want to reiterate the fact that the center of God's will is not a safe place, but the most dangerous place in the world. God fears nothing and no one. God moves with intentionality and power. To live outside God's will puts us in danger, but to live in His will makes us dangerous.

The most spiritual activity you will engage in today is making choices.

Cuando Jesús preguntó a los hombres "¿Qué quieren que haga por ustedes?", no fue porque Jesús no lo supiera, sino porque necesitaba que ellos declararan lo que querían que Él hiciera por ellos.

La pasión es el combustible que produce urgencia.

Sometimes God allows us to go through tremendous disruption so that we might choose the path to freedom.

We have defined holiness through what we separate ourselves from rather than what we give ourselves to. I am convinced the great tragedy is not the sins that we commit, but the life that we fail to live. You

I want to live the kind of life that cannot be lived without the fullness of Christ in my life.

For our lives to be works of art, we need to allow a lifetime of work. We must give God the time to make us works of art. We must press close to God and allow both the tenderness of his touch and the pressure of his hands to shape us and mold us into someone we would not be without him.

Si un día hemos de tener una conversación con Dios acerca de la medida de nuestras vidas, yo prefiero que Él me pregunte por qué intenté hacer demasiado, en lugar de que me pregunte por qué me conformé con tan poco.

No pude evitar pensar en cuántas veces en la vida somos invitados a una aventura extraordinaria y a oportunidades que existen solamente en nuestra imaginación, y dejamos que se nos escapen.

Where there is no love, there is no value for life.

Se trata de tomar las decisiones difíciles de dejar atrás aquello que te robaría el futuro que Dios quiere para ti.

Yet the integrity of the universe is the context in which creativity is best expressed. The canvas does not limit God's creativity but rather celebrates it. The elegant complexity of creation is a beautiful reminder that the creative mind is a disciplined mind, that the creative act is not a struggle to be free of limitations but a demonstration that when we embrace our limitations, creativity has no boundaries.

El futuro de Dios nunca llegará a nosotros a costa de nuestro carácter. Esta persona a la que yo antes respetaba mucho cometió el trágico error de dejar en su pasado lo que debió haber sido su futuro, y hacer de su futuro lo que debió haber sido su pasado.