Erwin McManus Quotes

I am simply trying to struggle through life; trying to do God's bidding.

I have to be honest in asking myself: Do I really want to know and do God's will? Or is it rather that I want God to do my will? Do I go to God with the assurance that I want only to know and do his will? Or do I rather first make my own plans and then insist that God make my dreams come true?

Emerson, I am trying to live, as you said we must, the examined life. But there are days I wish there was less in my head to examine, not to speak of the busy heart.

The bigger confrontation is the one an individual has with itself.

This unusual and highly successful species spends a great deal of time examining his higher motives and an equal amount of time ignoring his fundamental ones.

When I read profiles of myself, I sometimes think: 'I have spent my whole life struggling to understand my motivations and impulses, and I've never quite sorted them out.'

The conflicts we have with the outside world are often conflicts we have within ourselves.

The natural mind is ever prone to reason, when we ought to believe; to be at work, when we ought to be quiet; to go our own way, when we ought steadily to walk on in God's ways, however trying to nature.

I believe God put that desire inside of all of us so that we can evaluate ourselves in the light of His Word in order to become all that He created us to be.

I am a spy in the house of me. I report back from the front lines of the battle that is me. I am somewhat nonplused by the event that is my life.

God's will can become your internal reference point from this day forward; it is your choice.

Don't just ask God for what we want. Let him teach us what we should want.

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.

Certainly there is no contending against the will of God, but still there is some difficulty in ascertaining it, and applying it, to particular cases.

Man has always been his own most vexing problem.

If we have trouble hearing Him, He will faithfully work in our lives until we are pointed in the direction He wants us to go.

I'm not really interested in anyone's record or anyone - I'm always fighting with myself. I always try to do my best.

Ask Jesus what he wants from you and be brave!

Do I really believe that? I make a mark, a few strokes, I argue with myself, not do I like or not, but is it true or not? Is that what I mean, is that what I want?

No one need fear to listen to the voice of God unless he has already made up his mind to resist it.

I am discovering that in trying to find God's will and the shape of the Christian life I have begun an adventure so great that its total completion will always be ahead.

What does God want me to do?”, not “What will God do if I do so and so?

A big difference exists between trying to manipulate God to give us what we want and cooperating with God so He can give us what He wants.

When did we start believing God wants to send us to safe places to do easy things?

In many cases, our need to wonder about or be told what God wants in a certain situation is nothing short of a clear indication of how little we are engaged in His work.