Erwin McManus Quotes

Jesus beckons his followers to a path that's far from the easy road. It's a path filled with adventure, uncertainty, and unlimited possibilities - the only path that can fulfill the deepest longings and desires of your heart.

Erwin McManus

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• Desires
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• I prefer death in Christ Jesus to power over the farthest limits of the earth. He who died in place of us is the one object of my quest. He who rose for our sakes is my one desire.

  

  Ignatius of Antioch
  • Power
  • Death
  • Earth

• Europeans forget that one-third of the American people have had a personal conversation with Jesus Christ and that the born-again are not just little old ladies in black but also CEOs and provosts of universities and candidates for office.

  

  Edmund White
  • People
  • American
  • Black

• Do not worship me, I am not God. I'm only a man. I worship Jesus Christ.

  

  Haile Selassie
  • God
  • Jesus
  • Worship

• If everyone worked with wide-angle lenses, I'd shoot all my films in 75mm, because I believe very strongly in the possibilities of the 75mm.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Believe
  • Possibilities

• My family, frankly, they weren't folks who went to church every week. My mother was one of the most spiritual people I knew but she didn't raise me in the church, so I came to my Christian faith later in life and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Life
  • Family

• We wish to recall here the spirit of tolerance shown by Our Lord Jesus Christ when He gave forgiveness to all including those that crucified Him.

  

  Haile Selassie
  • Wish
  • Jesus
  • Forgiveness

• At no point do the resurrection narratives in the four Gospels say, 'Jesus has been raised, therefore we are all going to heaven.' It says that Christ is coming here, to join together the heavens and the Earth in an act of new creation.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • Together
  • Earth
  • Jesus

• The revelation in Jesus, just because it is the revelation of the righteousness of God is at the same time the strongest conceivable veiling and unknowableness of God. In Jesus, God really becomes a mystery, makes himself known as the unknown, speaks as the eternally Silent One.

  

  Karl Barth
  • Time
  • God
  • Jesus

• For instance, I have never believed that Jesus Christ would approve either abortions or the death penalty, but I obeyed such Supreme Court decisions to the best of my ability, at the same time attempting to minimize what I considered to be their adverse impact.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • Time
  • Death
  • Jesus

• The gospels were, in fact, written anywhere from forty to a hundred years after Jesus, and their authors attempted to demonstrate that Jesus could be seen to fulfill various Old Testament pronouncements.

  

  Jay Parini
  • Jesus

• It is tragic that some Christians have been so battered with stories of a prideful, vindictive God that they have fled from Jesus' fold.

  

  Frederica Mathewes-Green
  • God
  • Jesus

• Everyone who believes in Jesus Christ will be saved. That is true.

  

  Paul Washer
  • True
  • Jesus

• Let's face it. Adventure and exploration are in my blood.

  

  Philippe Cousteau, Jr.
  • Adventure

• Men want a battle to fight, an adventure to live, and a beauty to rescue. That is what is written in their hearts. That is what little boys play at. That is what men's movies are about. You just see it. It is undeniable.

  

  John Eldredge
  • Men
  • Live
  • Adventure

• I grew up as a fifth-generation Jew in the American South, at the confluence of two great storytelling traditions. After graduating from Yale in the 1980s, I moved to Japan. For young adventure seekers like myself, the white-hot Japanese miracle held a similar appeal as Russia in 1920s or Paris in the 1950s.

  

  Bruce Feiler
  • Up
  • Great
  • American

• I said, 'Okay, Jesus, I'll try you,' and I haven't looked back since.

  

  Letitia Wright
  • Jesus

• It is very difficult to generalise. Everyone's adventure is original.

  

  Bernard Pivot
  • Adventure

• About Jesus Christ and the Church, I simply know they're just one thing.

  

  Joan of Arc
  • Church
  • Jesus

• Whoever has used what means he is capable of, for the informing of himself, with a readiness to believe and obey what shall be taught and prescribed by Jesus, his Lord and King, is a true and faithful subject of Christ's kingdom; and cannot be thought to fail in any thing necessary to salvation.

  

  John Locke Nazareth
  • Believe
  • True
  • Jesus

• I was really obsessed with dieting.

  

  Camila Mendes

• Early on, they were timing my contract with an egg timer.

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • Contract
  • Egg

• Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Understand
  • Motivational

• Jesus beckons his followers to a path that's far from the easy road. It's a path filled with adventure, uncertainty, and unlimited possibilities - the only path that can fulfill the deepest longings and desires of your heart.

  

  Erwin McManus
  • Jesus
  • Adventure
  • Desires