Quotes from Erwin McManus

The word 'entertain' means to hold someone's attention, and what we want is a faith that is vibrant and alive and beautiful and real.

I had someone a month ago tell me at a campaign lunch that you can't be a Christian and a Democrat. I think that that view is dissipating very, very fast.

I have so much confidence in the reality of Jesus that I feel no pressure to try to make people act or be a certain way. I'm banking everything on the fact that God actually changes people.

Great dreams require great courage.

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.

The future awaits those with the courage to create it.

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

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

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

Behind real freedom, there lies discipline.

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

The shape of your character is the shape of your future.

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

What is the future you're creating right now?

My goal is to destroy Christianity.