Erwin McManus Quotes

Religion can be one of the greatest impediments to finding God.

People just overshoot trying to find God. They're going outside and trying everything. They don't realize that it's right inside themselves.

I am a Sufi guy, so fame is maya for me, a worldly illusion.

He who comes to take the love of God can have no taste for the love of the world.

Try to cultivate love of God. You are born as a human being only to attain divine love.

I think my characters - well, at least a few of them - are hoping or searching for some kind of contact with god.

The business and method of mysticism is love.

To see everything in God and to see God in everything normally takes a lifetime of practice.

When you perceive yourself as spirit, you will not simply feel love - you will BE love.

Salvation is not a religion. It's not rules or regulations or rituals. Salvation is a relationship. That relationship doesn't begin when you get to Heaven; it begins here on Earth.

To find love I must enter into the sanctuary where it is hidden, which is the mystery of God.

People seek methods of learning to know God. Is it not much shorter and more direct to simply do everything for the love of Him? There is no finesse about it. One only has to do it generously and simply.

When you seek truth, you seek God whether you know it or not.

What pity that Religion and Love, which heighten our relish for the things of both worlds, should ever run the human heart into enthusiasm, superstition, or uncharitableness!

Anyone who seeks truth seeks God, whether or not he realizes it.

Everywhere you look you see people searching for love but they're looking in the wrong places. God is love, and they will never find what they're looking for until they find Him.

The way to heaven is within. Shake the wings of love-when love's wings have become strong, there is no need to trouble about a ladder.

One way you can get really close to God is to sin as hard as you can.

Who falls for love of God, shall rise a star.

Love God, love your neighbors, and do stuff!

Bapu Gandhi said, ‘All religions are true.’ I just want to love God.

Your mind was made to know and love God.

He talks about God, and loving God. he says that when we open to loving a person, whether that person is a spouse, friend, or child, we open our hearts to loving God. He says when we let someone love us, we're opening our hearts to god's love. he says the acts are the same. p 19 I decide loving isn't for the fain. Its for the courageous. p 19

Every time you are passing the test, you are coming closer to Krishna.