Erwin McManus Quotes

Jesus' death wasn't to free us from dying, but to free us from the fear of death. Jesus came to liberate us so that we could die up front and then live. Jesus Christ wants to take us to places where only dead men and women can go.

Erwin McManus

• Jesus Christ
• Liberate
• Men And Women
• Fear Of Death

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• I believe in unconditional love and equality. Jesus Christ exemplified these qualities.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • Believe
  • Equality
  • Jesus Christ

• The gospel is the proclamation of the person and work of Jesus Christ and how those benefits can be applied to us by faith alone.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Work
  • Faith
  • Alone

• We are not asking everyone to do everything. We are simply asking all members to pray, knowing that if every member, young and old, will reach out to just “one” between now and Christmas, millions will feel the love of the Lord Jesus Christ. And what a wonderful gift to the Savior.

  

  M. Russell Ballard
  • Jesus
  • Christmas
  • Pray

• Focus on fruitful relationships that bring you closer to Jesus Christ.

  

  M. Russell Ballard
  • Focus
  • Jesus
  • Relationships

• The passion of Christianity comes from deliberately signing away my own rights and becoming a bondservant of Jesus Christ. Until I do that, I will not begin to be a saint.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Passion
  • Jesus
  • Christianity

• If sympathy is all that human beings need, then the Cross of Christ is an absurdity and there is absolutely no need for it. What the world needs is not "a little bit of love," but major surgery. If you think you are helping lost people with your sympathy and understanding, you are a traitor to Jesus Christ. You must have a right-standing relationship with Him yourself, and pour your life out in helping others in His way— not in a human way that ignores God.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• Prayer is simple, prayer is supernatural, and to anyone not related to our Lord Jesus Christ, prayer is apt to look stupid.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Simple
  • Jesus
  • Prayer

• You may often have to watch Jesus Christ wreck a life before He saves it.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Life
  • May
  • Jesus

• The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared with Jesus Christ.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Earth
  • Friend
  • Jesus

• People say that it is so hard to bring Jesus Christ and present him before the lives of men today. Of course it is. It is so hard that it is impossible except by the power of the indwelling Holy Ghost.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • People
  • Men
  • Power

• Never is the gospel of Jesus Christ more beautiful than in times of intense need, or in times of a severe storm within us as individuals, or in times of confusion and turmoil.

  

  Harold B. Lee
  • Beautiful
  • Jesus
  • Storm

• No matter who or what we are, God restores us to right standing with Himself only by means of the death of Jesus Christ.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Death
  • Jesus

• In Christian work our initiative and motivation are too often simply the result of realizing that there is work to be done and that we must do it. Yet that is never the attitude of a spiritually vigorous saint. His aim is to achieve the realization of Jesus Christ in every set of circumstances.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Work
  • Done
  • Christian

• The central point of the Kingdom of Jesus Christ is a personal relationship with Him, not public usefulness to others.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Relationship
  • Jesus
  • Point

• Behind the debris of these self-styled, sullen supermen and imperial diplomatists, there stands the gigantic figure of one person, because of whom, by whom, in whom, and through whom alone mankind might still have hope. The person of Jesus Christ.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Hope
  • Alone
  • Jesus

• Every man and woman who serves the Lord, no matter how faithful they may be, have their dark hours; but if they have lived faithfully, light will burst upon them and relief will be furnished.

  

  Lorenzo Snow
  • Men
  • May
  • Light

• A soul who loves Jesus Christ desires to be treated the way Christ was treated-desires to be poor, despised, and humiliated.

  

  Alphonsus Liguori
  • Soul
  • Jesus
  • Desires

• Would it hurt to die? All those times he had thought it was about to happen and escaped, he had never really thought of the thing itself: his will to live had always been so much stronger than his fear of death.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Live
  • Death
  • Fear

• When Jesus Christ asked little children to come to him, he didn't say only rich children, or White children, or children with two-parent families, or children who didn't have a mental or physical handicap. He said, Let all children come unto me.

  

  Marian Wright Edelman
  • Children
  • Jesus
  • Jesus Christ

• How can one liberate the many? By first liberating his own being. He does this not by elevating himself, but by lowering himself. He lowers himself to that which is simple, modest, true; integrating it into himself, he becomes a master of simplicity, modesty, truth.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Truth
  • Liberate
  • Lowers

• Not only do we know God by Jesus Christ alone, but we know ourselves only by Jesus Christ. We know life and death only through Jesus Christ. Apart from Jesus Christ, we do not know what is our life, nor our death, nor God, nor ourselves.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Life
  • God
  • Death

• By the supernatural miracle of God's grace I stand justified, not because I am sorry for my sin, not because I have repented, but because of what Jesus has done.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Done
  • Jesus

• Jesus' death wasn't to free us from dying, but to free us from the fear of death. Jesus came to liberate us so that we could die up front and then live. Jesus Christ wants to take us to places where only dead men and women can go.

  

  Erwin McManus
  • Jesus Christ
  • Liberate
  • Men And Women