Erwin McManus Quotes

We may excuse the spiritual poverty of our preaching in many ways, but the true secret will be found in the lack of urgent prayer for God's presence in the power of the Holy Spirit.

Often we talk about God's ability to change lives without fully understanding how to access that power.

If there's something in your life that you know needs changing, make sure you change it before God's got to change it. Because if God's got to change it, you ain't going to like it.

As we move into the 21st century, there's what the Bible calls a 'quickening of the spirit.'

God is shaking me.

God does guide the lives of individuals and does fill them with the Holy Ghost.

Only the holy spirit, the spirit of the lord, can transform us.

I still marvel at how God turns dreams into reality.

I have the ability to create and be in touch with God. I can't change bread and wine into body and blood, but I can take the scum or the slime of the earth and make it into a man or woman.

The story of Christian reformation, revival, and renaissance underscores that the darkest hour is often just before the dawn, so we should always be people of hope and prayer, not gloom and defeatism. God the Holy Spirit can turn the situation around in five minutes.

Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.

The idea of a spiritual heart transplant is a vivid image to me; once you have the heart of somebody else inside you, then that heart is there. Jesus' heart is inside me, and my heart is gone. So if God were to place a stethoscope against my chest, he would hear the heart of Jesus Christ beating.

Only God who made us can touch us and change us and save us from ourselves.

Let's use the opportunities before us to stand for Christ. If we will do, God himself will honor our efforts and America can be restored.

In this day the breeze of God is wafted, and His Spirit hath pervaded all things. Such is the outpouring of His grace that the pen is stilled and the tongue is speechless.

God wants to free us from ourselves, and there's nothing like suffering to show us that we need something bigger than our abilities and our strength and our explanations.

Yes, God is the end of your work, but He is the beginning also.

Things change when you give your life to serving God, and that can be scary.

The pavilion that seems to intercept divine aid does not cover God but occasionally covers us. God is never hidden, yet sometimes we are, covered by a pavilion of motivations that draw us away from God and make Him seem distant and inaccessible.

The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.

Faith Words aren't just mere positive affirmations; they open your life up to the supernatural power of God.

Prayer opens the heart to God, and it is the means by which the soul, though empty, is filled by God.

None know how often the hand of God is seen in a wilderness but them that rove it for a man's life.

The men of moral and religious earnestness were bent on some measure of fresh reform. A spirit was abroad which could not be put down, and which would not be quiet. The old idea of an authoritative Church was outgrown, and yet no religious system had come in its place which provided for a free personal approach to God Himself.

There is no wisdom of man that can change men or change nations; it is the power and wisdom of God that can.