Erwin McManus Quotes

Sometimes all you need is a big leap of faith.

God is, or He is not." But to which side shall we incline? Reason can decide nothing here. There is an infinite chaos which separated us. A game is being played at the extremity of this infinite distance where heads or tails will turn up. What will you wager?

Dr. Martin Luther King was never a man to say 'I've got this' as the leader of the movement. He wasn't always sure that his decisions were correct, because he knew every decision he made was putting lives at risk, including his and his family's lives.

Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.

To believe in something not yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives: it is the only way we can leave the future open.

If you want to do things – to change things – you must run the risk of not succeeding.

It’s time for change. It’s time for someone smart enough to know, strong enough to do, sure enough to lead...

My countrymen: we have reached a turning point in our history. The choice is yours. Shall we venture into this brave new world, bright with possibilities, or retreat to the safety of our familiar but sterile past? I am for crossing the frontier.

I must act now without knowing the results. Thus, I give my actions their only possible meaning for me.

I personally believe that our planet would be absolutely fine without religion, and I also feel we are evolving in that direction.

Don't wait the time is never just right.

Nothing that matters in this world happens unless leaders lead it.

Don't let not knowing how it'll end keep you from beginning. Uncertainty chases us out into the open where God is waiting.

Though a man declares himself an atheist, it in no way alters his obligations.

Let the experiment be made.

Its time to trust my instincts, close my eyes and leap

Don't wait until you are perfect to change the world.

Don't ask the world to stop moving because you have doubts.

When in doubt, risk it

You can't lead without taking risk.

We have the power to make the world we seek, but only if we have the courage to make a new beginning.

If anyone on the verge of action should judge himself according to the outcome, he would never begin. Even though the result may gladden the whole world, that cannot help the hero; for he knows the result only when the whole thing is over, and that is not how he became a hero, but by virtue of the fact that he began.

I gave up religious thinking a long time ago and am really just an agnostic now.

Sometimes you've gotta take a risk.