Quote

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

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Erwin McManus
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: August 28
Author
Theologian
sv
Wells
Squeezes
Well
Placed
Something
Potential
Life
Supposed
Lived
Within
Dies
Doe

More quotes by Erwin McManus

Image
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
Image
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
Image
Courage frees us from the fears that would rob us of life itself.
Erwin McManus
Image
True religion always moves us to serve others and to give our lives to see those oppressed find freedom.
Erwin McManus
Image
Courage is not the absence of fear it is the absence of self.
Erwin McManus
Image
All the evidence you need to prove God is waiting within you to be discovered.
Erwin McManus
Image
It is insanity to run from God and search for love.
Erwin McManus
Image
Attitude is an accurate monitor of where we fall on the spectrum of pride and humility.
Erwin McManus
Image
The person who loves the process has a much greater chance of success than the person who loves the outcome.
Erwin McManus
Image
It is not balance you need but adaptability.
Erwin McManus
Image
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
Image
Great dreams require great courage.
Erwin McManus
Image
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
Image
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
Image
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
Image
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
Image
Love never comes without wounds faith never comes without failure.
Erwin McManus
Image
The fuel of ambition is not the problem it is the focus of ambition that frees or betrays us.
Erwin McManus
Image
We have to ask ourselves, 'Am I really trying to discern God's will, or determine whether I want to do it?'
Erwin McManus
Image
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