Erwin McManus Quotes

The church is not here to meet our needs. We are the church here to meet the needs of the world.

Erwin McManus

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• I don't get controversial, I don't get political and I don't tell you what to do with your life. I just go out there and tell some stories, and people can relate.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • People
  • Life
  • Political

• One reason we love fiction is because stories have a comforting shape. They provide a resolution that's lacking in our regular lives.

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
  • Reason
  • Stories
  • Lives

• If I were dead, then nobody in England would have to fuss about the cost of my security and whether or not I merited such special treatment for so long.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Long
  • Security
  • Cost

• America's fine, nice, nice hiking near L.A. But I am European. I love London and Paris. Friends and intellect, big thought, why not?

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Friends
  • Nice
  • Thought

• He also didn't like a lock of my hair and said that he couldn't get into the moment without the hair being just right. I quietly knew that he was anxious and that the hairdo wasn't the real issue. But we all let it go and came back to the scene sometime later.

  

  Madeleine Stowe
  • Real
  • Hair
  • Moment

• Despite the demands of this job, one of the things my wife and I try to do is to spend time together alone. And one of the things we really enjoy doing together is seeing a good movie.

  

  Warren Christopher
  • Time
  • Good
  • Job

• I was really ambitious, so I was innovative. I was one of the first DJs to do live calls, 'cause I found this phone device that would pick up other people's voices.

  

  Idris Elba
  • People
  • Up
  • Live

• I don't go to the sale rack. But I wouldn't say I am decadent in my spending. I am careful.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Careful
  • Spending
  • Sale

• In the morning, when thou art sluggish at rousing thee, let this thought be present; 'I am rising to a man’s work.'

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Work
  • Art
  • Morning

• I do think that with any kind of infidelity, on some level - unless you're dealing with a sociopath - there's always a reason.

  

  Jessica Capshaw

• Probably only an art-worlder like me could assign deeper meaning to something as simple and silly as Tebowing. But, to us, anytime people repeat a stance or a little dance, alone or together, we see that it can mean something. Imagistic and unspoken language is our thing.

  

  Jerry Saltz
  • People
  • Art
  • Together

• Whenever I'm asked about the greatest lesson I've learned, my response is, 'Happiness is a choice I make.'

  

  Gabrielle Bernstein

• Our stories are different; our pain is the same.

  

  Betty Buckley
  • Different
  • Pain

• There is no method by which an average citizen can effectively fight the White House in the media.

  

  Linda Tripp
  • House

• Onstage, I was never the ingenue.

  

  Kristen Johnston

• I love when things don't go to plan.

  

  Lauren Gibbs

• In 1987 I got dartitis, a psychological condition which means you can't let your darts go properly. For a time, I wondered what the hell I was going to do if I didn't recover. But I remained positive and, thankfully, got over it. It occurred during the Swedish Open when I found I couldn't let the darts go.

  

  Eric Bristow
  • Time
  • Positive

• My favorite book is always the one I'm working on at the moment.

  

  Caroline B. Cooney
  • Book

• Throughout all history, the great wise men and teachers, philosophers, and prophets have disagreed with one another on many different things. It is only on this one point that they are in complete and unanimous agreement. We become what we think about

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • Great
  • Men
  • Different

• I'm so centered in feeling great about me that I can give great things to my son and my husband and my family.

  

  Celine Dion
  • Great
  • Feeling
  • Things

• Keep your eyes open to all the needs you see around you.

  

  Caitlin Crosby
  • Eyes
  • Eye
  • Needs

• The Copernican revolution was actually a contribution to the life of the church, the development of our view of ourselves in terms of the Universe, and therefore our view of God, et cetera. But, that took centuries, and struggles, and conflicts before that happened.

  

  George Coyne
  • Church
  • Universe
  • Struggle

• Some countries need extra stimulus in specific areas. Something has to be done against high youth unemployment in Greece and Spain, for example. But in the end, there is no way around it: The debt levels have to come down.

  

  Dalia Grybauskaite
  • Country
  • Needs
  • Example

• The church is not here to meet our needs. We are the church here to meet the needs of the world.

  

  Erwin McManus
  • Church
  • Needs
  • Meet