The following are 29 Leadership Quotes From Erwin McManus, author of the new book The Last Arrow: Save Nothing for the Next Life and senior pastor of The Mosaic. The following are quotes regarding his battle with cancer.
- The greatest battles we face are the ones inside of us.
- Our greatest fear might be there is something inside of us that will not be realized.
- I’ve been on a personal journey to find out who I am.
- I was never average. I was always below-average.
- We are haunted we may never live up to everything inside of us.
- Life really isn’t about talent, or gifting, or skills.
- We hold onto the status quo because that is where we’re the most accepted.
- We’re in danger of learning how to conform, how to belong.
- If you put your life in God’s hands, He will send it so much further than it could ever go alone.
- So many people need permission to get started. But no one needs permission to quit.
- So many of us confused those moments when we thought we failed, but we quit.
- You are dying. You don’t get this day back. You don’t get this opportunity back. This day is sacred.
- You need to live each day as if it’s the last day of your life.
- How could I be bitter against God of life. It’s been such an amazing life.
- I never felt afraid.
- Death was so last year.
- Death is still in front of you so you are living in fear. Freedom is on the other side of your fears.
- You need to step through your fears to your freedom.
- Death has a lot of companions. Fear. Rejection.
- I see many people who say they have faith but are paralyzed by fear.
- When you enter into a relationship with the Creator, He puts death behind you. All that is left is life.
- So many of us only have the structure to lead when life is easy.
- Leadership is about facing your fears and crashing through fear.
- Your greatness is on the other side of your pain.
- Fear has no power for my life.
- What you fear has mastery over your life. If you fear heights you stay low. Fear establishes the boundaries of your life.
- Every master who controls your life wants to destroy it except God.
- Your pain is not the boundary of your limitation. Your pain is the boundary of your greatness. It is where greatness begins.
- If I can stand in this pain, I can face whatever pain is in front of me.
- We need to learn how to walk in our pain.
- My cancer was not for me. I’m a Christian. I’ve already died.
- The only proof of live after death is life before death.
- Dying is not the limitation of our life.
- You have to be willing to go through the pain to step into your greatness.
- For many people pain will define them.
- Jesus communicates to all of us that pain is not the end of our story.
- God did not come into human history to give us a way out of the pain. He gave us a way through the pain.
- Your future is on the other side of your failures.
- Have you noticed that people want to define you by your worst moments.
- God does not define you by your worst moments. God defines you by your best moments.
- It’s impossible to fail. You already have a story worth telling.
- Failure is just part of the story. It just enhances the story. Plot twist.
- I told Kim, “Honey, I lost everything.” She said, “I thought I was your everything.”
- I wanted God to meet me in my faith and He met me in my unfaithfulness.
- We’ve got to stop pretending this life is easy. Faith doesn’t make life easier. It makes you stronger.
- 40 years ago I had an encounter with the person of Jesus.
- Your faith is the fuel to step into your fear.
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