Erwin McManus Quotes

If I am not, may God place me there; if I am, may God so keep me. I should be the saddest in all the world if I knew that I were not in the grace of God. But if I were in a state of sin, do you think the Voice would come to me? I would that every one could hear the Voice as I hear it.

It never frightened a Puritan when you bade him stand still and listen to the speech of God. His closet and his church were full of the reverberations of the awful, gracious, beautiful voice for which he listened.

Hearing myself so much all the time, I don't think I sound that special all the time because it's me.

I think your imagination is your reality

When someone starts talking to me about the truth, what I hear is what they're telling me about themselves.

I don't think anybody really loves the sound of their own voice, but the tweakability is huge.

Who judges best of a Man, his Enemies or himself?

My character - and for that matter my worst habits - could only be described by someone else. You can't open a box with the crowbar inside it.

No one seemed able to look at themselves, coolly, from the outside. Their reality was all that could be seen in the light cast ahead by their own wishful thinking.

For however dutifully we record what we see around us, the common denominator of all we see is always, transparently, shamelessly, the implacable I.

The voice inside your head is not the voice of god. It just sounds like it thinks it is.

That is the voice of God because its the voice of truth and experience.

The voice of the Almighty speaks most profoundly in such things as lives in silence themselves.

I think I have an ongoing conversation with God. I think throughout the day, I'm constantly asking myself questions about what I'm doing, why am I doing it.

God's voice was not in the earthquake, Not in the fire, nor the storm, but it was in the whispering breezes.

What could be a greater privilege than to listen to the voice of God, and be granted by God himself the ears to hear?

The next voice you hear will undoubtedly be your own.

What probably distorts everything in life is that one is convinced that one is speaking the truth because one says what one thinks.

Oh, but there's such a difference between saying a thing yourself and hearing other people say it,' wailed Anne. 'You may know a thing is so, but you can't help hoping other people don't quite think it is.

[...] every time he forces himself to think before acting, it's her voice in his head telling him to slow down. He wants to tell her, but she's always so busy in the medical jet—and you don't just go to somebody and say, "I'm a better person because you're in my head.

Since we think about ourselves so much of the time, it is comforting to assume ... that we really know the score.... [But] this is not an easy assignment. [As] Santayana wrote, 'Nothing requires a rarer intellectual heroism than willingness to see one's equation written out.'

I think looking at your own life, on- and offscreen, you can motivate anything, or you can delude yourself into anything.

When you read the Bible, you must think that here and now, God is speaking with me

Sometimes I think all my pictures are just pictures of me. My concern is...the human predicament; only what I consider the human predicament may simply be my own.

The Prophets Isaiah and Ezekiel dined with me, and I asked them how they dared so roundly to assert, that God spoke to them; and whether they did not think at the time, that they would be misunderstood, & so be the cause of imposition. Isaiah answer'd, I saw no God, nor heard any, in a finite organical perception; but my senses discover'd the infinite in every thing, and as I was then persuaded, & remain confirm'd; that the voice of honest indignation is the voice of God, I cared not for consequences but wrote.