Erwin McManus Quotes

We have to ask ourselves, 'Am I really trying to discern God's will, or determine whether I want to do it?'

Erwin McManus

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• I think I infuse the music with a new passion. Part of this is because I have fallen in love: I am in love with the New York Philharmonic. The chemistry has just been right. Beyond expectation.

  

  Lorin Maazel
  • Music
  • Thinking
  • Passion

• So the dubbed conceit Played nursery of cheat To clear the I of sleet....

  

  Allen Tate
  • Cheat
  • Conceit
  • Nursery

• Venus knows country matters: country knows Venus: For Love, Dione's boy, was born on the farm.

  

  Allen Tate
  • Country
  • Boy
  • Farm

• There are levels of outrage, and there's a point at which you can't be trespassed upon anymore.

  

  Marian Wright Edelman
  • Point
  • Outrage
  • Trespassed

• A diet of violence or pornography dulls the senses, and future exposures need to be rougher and more extreme. Soon the person is desensitized and is unable to react in a sensitive, caring, responsible manner, especially to those in his own home and family. Good people can become infested with this material and it can have terrifying, destructive consequences.

  

  Marvin J. Ashton
  • People
  • Good
  • Family

• The parable of the prodigal son, the most beautiful fiction that ever was invented; our Saviour's speech to His disciples, with which He closed His earthly ministrations, full of the sublimest dignity and tenderest affection, surpass everything that I ever read; and like the spirit by which they were dictated, fly directly to the heart.

  

  William Cowper
  • Heart
  • Beautiful
  • Son

• O America, how you've taken necessities from the masses to give luxuries to the classes.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • America
  • Luxuries
  • Necessities

• There could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison...

  

  Jane Austen
  • Feelings
  • Tastes
  • Unison

• The living are soft and yielding; the dead are rigid and stiff. Living plants are flexible and tender; the dead are brittle and dry.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Living
  • Dead
  • Stiff

• I want to do the impossible.

  

  Gustavo Cerati Soda Stereo
  • Impossible
  • I Want

• There are various art forms we may or may not have talent for, may or may not have time for, and we may or may not be able to express ourselves in, but we ought to consider this fact-that whether we choose to be an environment or not, we are. We produce an environment other people have to live in. We should be conscious of the fact that this environment which we produce by our very 'being' can affect the people who live with us or work with us.

  

  Edith Schaeffer
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• I'm finding writing very fascinating.

  

  Eve Arden
  • Writing
  • Fascinating

• We have to ask ourselves, 'Am I really trying to discern God's will, or determine whether I want to do it?'

  

  Erwin McManus
  • I Want
  • God's Will
  • Discern