Erwin McManus Quotes

In the Church, and in the journey of faith, women have had and still have a special role in opening doors to the Lord.

I am spiritual but not massively religious, and I don't go to church. If someone said 'What religion are you?' I would say 'Christian.' But I don't practice.

And I used to think that proof that I had religion was whether I knew how to sing all of the songs.

But I don't necessarily define my faith by going to church every Sunday.

I don't disrespect anybody who espouses a particular religion or belief - that is their own right to do that. But I think it's terribly important to look beyond the comfort that religion gives.

For me, God is in my life. I don't hide from that... I think the search has been on since the '60s.

Testimony is an integral part of the Black religious tradition. It is the occasion where the believer stands before the community of faith in order to give account of the hope that is in him or her.

I completely understand why people would find the Church intolerable. I'm not the least bit surprised when people seek to leave it, though I miss them and I wish they'd stay. But I sometimes think you leave to come back, and that's certainly true in my case.

We have become so self-centered that we go to God only for something from Him, and not for God Himself.

My joy in my life comes from my strength in my life and in my experience with God. That cannot be separated from football. It is all the same to me. It is one. I am one with it.

Twin-sister of Religion, Selfishness.

Sometimes when God brings things into an individual's life, it makes them totally depend on Him.

So much of what comes out of the faith community seems so dour and somber, and we want to say, 'Hey, we're real people. You can be a person of faith and really enjoy life and laugh.'

For millions of men and women, the church has been the hospital for the soul, the school for the mind and the safe depository for moral ideas.

What's positive is moving from a place of growing in faith to really feeling more grounded in faith, to understand that faith is hard, that I'll stumble, that I'll make mistakes, that I'll sin. But, that's part of being on a faith path; it's part of being a human being.

I think faith is the small mustard seed of opportunities every day. For example, 'Am I going to love this person? Am I going to share my faith with this person? Am I going to pray that little prayer?' It really is a daily thing where you seize those little mustard seed opportunities and then see what God does.

When Christians start thinking about Jesus, things start breaking down, they lose their faith. It's perfectly possible to go to church every Sunday and not ask any questions, just because you like it as a way of life. They fear that if they ask questions they'll lose their Christ, the very linchpin of their religion.

The little platoon of the black community is the church. Our Christian faith is based on individual freedom from sin and the personal decision to find spiritual liberty that leads to a better life here on Earth and for eternity. On Sundays in America, the most conservative people can be found in black churches.

People of faith should be able to have confidence in their right to freely express and live their beliefs.

Faith is the ticket to the feast, not the feast.

The man who seeks to please God is the man who people are pleased with. The man who seeks to please others won't satisfy anyone.

One of the hardest jobs in ministry is keeping your own relationship with God where it needs to be.

I have often felt a motion of love to leave some hints in writing of my experience of the goodness of God, and now, in the thirty-sixth year of my age, I begin this work.

God surrounded me with people of faith, people of strong faith, people of power, spiritual power, and I saw little miracles happen in their lives. By it happening in their lives, I started believing it could happen to me.

I'm not a practice religion freak. I didn't grow up in a religious family, but I have a faith.