Quotes from Erwin Raphael McManus

David had one posture: servanthood. Because he saw himself as a servant, he was a shepherd like no one had ever known.

He wasn't fighting for his own glory or his own fame; he was fighting because no one else would and because he understood what was at stake. When he killed the lion and the bear, there was no audience and no applause. God and God alone knew David's actions and knew his heart.

This journey is about ensuring that when we come to the end of our lives, we will arrive at our final moments with no regret.

See Him everywhere. His fingerprints in every page of human history. Feel him move in the wind, hear his roar in the ocean, know his presence in every breath.

The warrior is like a river, with fluid and adaptive moves. The warrior is not rigid or unchanging. The warrior is not like a stone that cannot be broken but like water that even when cut in two cannot be divided. It is not a weapon that makes you a warrior—it is your wisdom.

The spirit of a servant is to sacrifice one's own life for the good of those they serve.

Jesus is being lost in a religion bearing His name.

Asking why isn't about the survival of the fittest; it is about the soul's craving for meaning.

Wisdom understands that it is less important to win a fight or a point than it is to win the person. Wisdom knows that you should never fight against people; you should fight for them.

The fool feels powerful because they have a weapon in their hand; the warrior knows they are powerful when their hands are empty.

The warrior is not formed by what has been done and what can't be done; the heart of the warrior is formed by what must be done.

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.

To create is to reflect the image of God. To create is an act of worship.

Love never comes without wounds; faith never comes without failure.

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.

To be apathetic is literally to be without passion.

True creativity does not come easily; creativity is born of risk and refined from failure.

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.

We can become so afraid of death that we never live, so afraid of failure that we never risk, so afraid of pain that we never discover how strong we really are.

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

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

There is no proof of creativity without action.

Artists love without reservation. They give their hearts completely and leave nothing on the table. They are naked and unashamed. They leave no room for pretension. And because they have given all of themselves, they live without regret.

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?