Erwin McManus Quotes

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

Erwin McManus

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• The eyes of a poet discover in each person a unique and irreplaceable humanity. While arrogant intellect seeks to control and manipulate the world, the poetic spirit bows with reverence before its mysteries.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • World
  • Control
  • Eyes

• These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert to fleece the people; and now that they have got into a quarrel with themselves, we are called upon to appropriate the people's money to settle the quarrel.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • People
  • Money
  • Act

• I know you can be up one minute and drop the next, so I'm trying to maintain a steady course so I can have some longevity.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Know

• A publicly run health care program could compete with private insurance companies, which have a record of overcharging and underperforming.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Health
  • Care
  • Insurance

• How do you grow up in the shadow of a guy - I want to talk about the movie in a second - but how do you grow up in the shadow of a guy who really is a legend in his own time?

  

  Tavis Smiley
  • Up
  • Time
  • Movie

• If you feel that you can just come in the studio and freestyle on my song, then I'm ready to rap battle you. That's just how I feel about it because I know I'm way harder than another rapper freestyling on my song.

  

  Young Thug
  • Song
  • Know
  • Rap

• I read real books. On paper. You know, those printed books? I feel like this is the last thing I do to support my industry. I think they smell great, too.

  

  Gary Shteyngart
  • Great
  • Real
  • Think

• Money is worth nothing if it can't buy you the opportunity to love more.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Money
  • Love
  • Opportunity

• When you take other people's opinions, you end up flailing and you have no center.

  

  Gary Allan
  • People
  • Up
  • End

• The people I was listening to never sold a lot of records. John Lee Hooker was never on the charts, so I was never in it from a commercial point of view. Other people expected things from my records, but I never did.

  

  Van Morrison
  • People
  • Listening

• Don't talk it, walk it.

  

  Lars Ulrich Metallica

• My kids grew up here. My son and daughter both went to Notre Dame.

  

  Ara Parseghian
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Son

• With the advent of computing, human invention crossed a threshold into a world different from everything that came before. The computer is the universal machine almost by definition, machine-of-all-trades, capable of accomplishing or simulating just about any task that can be logically defined.

  

  James Gleick
  • World
  • Different

• He who allows oppression shares the crime.

  

  Desiderius Erasmus

• Now that I have a thousand albums in my car all the time, I listen to more music. I was too lazy; I always had the same five discs in there. I'd never think to change it.

  

  Trent Reznor Nine Inch Nails
  • Time
  • Music
  • Car

• I think people respond to truth. 'Straight Outta Compton' made $60 million over the weekend, right? That's not just a black audience. 'Empire' grew every single week. That's not just a black audience. Black culture is American culture, you know what I mean? They're becoming more and more one in the same.

  

  Jerrod Carmichael
  • People
  • Truth
  • American

• I don't consider myself a social entrepreneur, but I'm thrilled to be doing good, if that's what I'm doing.

  

  Perry Chen
  • Good
  • Entrepreneur

• I sketched out a rough story for them and the director said, well it's a good story but we have the go-ahead from Universal to make this script and did I want to do it. I said no, and they left.

  

  Ellen Burstyn
  • Good

• The Tories in England long imagined that they were enthusiastic about monarchy, the church, and the beauties of the old English Constitution, until the day of danger wrung from them the confession that they are enthusiastic only about ground rent.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Long
  • Church
  • English

• The long arc of history that recounts the Catholic Church's embrace of people of all faiths and none in providing health, education, and welfare in society is as incontestable as it is impressive.

  

  Blase J. Cupich
  • People
  • Long
  • History

• That's the biggest part of going to church. You just learn how to hide your bad in front of people.

  

  Anderson East
  • People
  • Bad
  • Church

• What if the type of revival the Father is wanting to pour out is easy, sustainable, & without striving? What if we didn’t have to work for it? This is the revival I am believing for. Awaken my church! Awaken my city! Awaken me!

  

  Cory Asbury
  • Father
  • City
  • Church

• We will emerge stronger as a diverse community; the area will be rebuilt with life around the clock, new buildings, restaurants, places of entertainment.

  

  George Pataki
  • Life
  • Community

• The church does not exist for us. We are the church, and we exist for the world.

  

  Erwin McManus
  • Church
  • Exist