Top 160 Erwin Raphael McManus Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “The future awaits those with the courage to create it.”

— Erwin Raphael McManus

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2. “A life well lived is the most exquisite work of art.”

— Erwin Raphael McManus

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3. “You are both a work of art and an artist at work.”

— Erwin Raphael McManus

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4. “We can’t change history, but we can create the future.”

— Erwin Raphael McManus

5. “God gives God-sized dreams to people with God-shaped hearts.”

— Erwin Raphael McManus

6. “Talent doesn’t win. Hard work, determination, and character wins. If you root your talent and ability in those things, then you have a powerful combination.”

— Erwin Raphael McManus

7. “It is amazing where God will take you when you are willing to follow. Life is full of surprises when we choose mystery over security.”

— Erwin Raphael McManus

8. “Gratitude changes your perspective about life. You see the future, experience the present, and remember the past in a dramatically different way.”

— Erwin Raphael McManus

9. “I think a lot of us are not on a path; we’re in a rut. We have confused comfort with peace, belief with faith, safety with wisdom, wealth with blessing, and existence with life.”

— Erwin Raphael McManus

10. “Greatness comes with discipline.”

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11. “Love never comes without wounds; faith never comes without failure.”

— Erwin Raphael McManus

12. “Within a moment there is monumental potential. That is the mystery of a moment. It is small enough to ignore and big enough to change your life forever.”

— Erwin Raphael McManus

13. “Courage is not the absence of fear; it is the absence of self.”

— Erwin Raphael McManus

14. “Behind real freedom, there lies discipline.”

— Erwin Raphael McManus

15. “We were created to be expressions of the goodness and wholeness of God.”

— Erwin Raphael McManus

16. “The church does not exist for us. We are the church, and we exist for the world.”

— Erwin Raphael McManus

17. “Humility is not about having a low self-image or poor self-esteem. Humility is about self-awareness.”

— Erwin Raphael McManus

18. “Your soul craves truth, beauty, wonder, love. Your soul craves to dream, to imagine, and even simply to understand. Your soul craves to connect, to commune, to create.”

— Erwin Raphael McManus

19. “You cannot wash the feet of a dirty world if you refuse to touch it.”

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20. “You are an artist. What work of art will you leave behind?”

— Erwin Raphael McManus

21. “To live outside of God’s will puts us in danger; to live in his will makes us dangerous.”

— Erwin Raphael McManus

22. “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.”

— Erwin Raphael McManus

23. “When we lack integrity, we use power to control. When we lead with integrity, we use power to bless.”

— Erwin Raphael McManus

24. “The world doesn’t need more great leaders, it needs more great people who lead.”

— Erwin Raphael McManus

25. “The person who loves the process has a much greater chance of success than the person who loves the outcome.”

— Erwin Raphael McManus

26. “The epicenter of creativity and imagination should be the Church, reflecting the character and glory of God.”

— Erwin Raphael McManus

27. “When you live your life knowing the mission and calling and voice of God in your soul and you know where that compass is driving you forward, you will become a rare commodity in a world searching for direction.”

— Erwin Raphael McManus

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

— Erwin Raphael McManus

29. “The history of God’s people is not a record of God searching for courageous men and women who could handle the task, but God transforming the hearts of cowards and calling them to live courageous lives.”

— Erwin Raphael McManus

30. “If you were meant to fly, not even running really fast is that impressive.”

— Erwin Raphael McManus

31. “Problems, obstacles, and challenges can either become the markers of our limits and limitations, or they can become the springboard into a whole new world.”

— Erwin Raphael McManus

32. “The shape of your character is the shape of your future.”

— Erwin Raphael McManus

33. “It’s not your freedom to choose that makes you free. It’s what you choose in that freedom that makes you free.”

— Erwin Raphael McManus

34. “When we stop believing the world can become a better place, when we stop caring about the lives and conditions of others, we lose a part of ourselves.”

— Erwin Raphael McManus

35. “We need both to aspire and accomplish. Without a vision for your life, without a sense of purpose, you will begin to die a slow death.”

— Erwin Raphael McManus

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

— Erwin Raphael McManus

37. “When the church becomes an institution, people are nothing more than volunteers to be recruited. When the church is a movement, our stewardship becomes the unleashing of our God-given gifts, talents, and passions.”

— Erwin Raphael McManus

38. “The limitations you are willing to accept establish the boundaries of your existence.”

— Erwin Raphael McManus

39. “We may not be able to accomplish everything we can dream, but we will not accomplish anything without our dreams.”

— Erwin Raphael McManus

40. “To blame others is an act of cowardice. We blame in an attempt to hide our shame. This is not the way of the warrior. The warrior understands that to blame is not simply an abdication of responsibility but a relinquishing of power. You cannot change what you do not take responsibility for.”

— Erwin Raphael McManus

41. “Deeper than our instinct to live is our longing to be alive.”

— Erwin Raphael McManus

42. “Life is a series of challenges, adventures, and yes, even battles. There will always be giants to subdue and dragons to slay. I have already decided to die with my sword in hand. There is more courage in us than danger ahead of us. You are strong enough for the battles ahead.”

— Erwin Raphael McManus

43. “We are all hypocrites in transition. I am not who I want to be, but I am on the journey there, and thankfully I am not whom I used to be.”

— Erwin Raphael McManus

44. “Success will lie to you and tell you that your future is just an extension of your past, when at its best, success is simply preparation for new challenges.”

— Erwin Raphael McManus

45. “Sin creates the illusion of freedom. In the end it fools us into seeking freedom from God rather than finding freedom in God.”

— Erwin Raphael McManus

46. “Truth should never travel faster than love.”

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

— Erwin Raphael McManus

48. “Peace comes when you stop trying to control the world around you and instead take responsibility for the world within you.”

— Erwin Raphael McManus

49. “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 Raphael McManus

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

— Erwin Raphael McManus