Chasing Daylight Quotes

“We are all time voyagers leaving history in our wake, pioneering into the future.”
― Erwin Raphael McManus, Chasing Daylight: Seize the Power of Every Moment

“When we are passionate about God, we can trust our passions.”
― Erwin Raphael McManus, Chasing Daylight: Seize the Power of Every Moment

“The more you love God, the more deeply you care about life. The more deeply you care about people, the more deeply you are committed to making a difference in people’s lives.”
― Erwin Raphael McManus, Chasing Daylight: Seize the Power of Every Moment

“If the safest place to be is in the center of the will of God, then an appropriate measure of God's will is the test, 'is it safe?'... This view runs counter to what we find in the Scriptures. I want to reiterate the fact that the center of God's will is not a safe place, but the most dangerous place in the world.”
― Erwin Raphael McManus, Chasing Daylight: Seize the Power of Every Moment

“To relive the past is to relinquish the future. If you are willing to let go of the past, then you are ready to step into the future. When you choose to remain stuck in a moment, you become incapable of seizing divine moments.”
― Erwin Raphael McManus, Chasing Daylight: Seize the Power of Every Moment

“I don’t know what it means for others, but for a follower of Jesus Christ, what it means to live on the edge is to stand at the epicenter of where the kingdom of God confronts the kingdom of darkness. When evil raises its ugly head, taunting God and tormenting the weak, the adventurer rises up and moves toward the challenge. Like a guided missile, the adventurous spirit moves toward its greatest challenge.”
― Erwin Raphael McManus, Chasing Daylight: Seize the Power of Every Moment

“SOMEHOW WE ALL KNOW THAT TO PLAY IT SAFE IS TO LOSE THE GAME.”
― Erwin Raphael McManus, Chasing Daylight: Seize the Power of Every Moment

“The most spiritual activity you will engage in today is making choices.”
― Erwin Raphael McManus, Chasing Daylight: Seize the Power of Every Moment

“TO LIVE A PRAYERLESS LIFE IS TO MISS THE LIFE THAT GOD CREATED YOU TO EXPERIENCE. YET THERE ARE TIMES WHEN PRAYER CAN BECOME A RELIGIOUS VEIL FOR AN EMPTY LIFE.”
― Erwin Raphael McManus, Chasing Daylight: Seize the Power of Every Moment

“There are things that must be done today, things that you and you alone were created to accomplish. Some of us are wasting our time burning daylight when what we need to be doing is seizing the power of every moment.”
― Erwin Raphael McManus, Chasing Daylight: Seize the Power of Every Moment

“When we sit under the pomegranate tree protecting the life we have, we risk relinquishing what God really wants for us—to seize our divine destiny.”
― Erwin Raphael McManus, Chasing Daylight: Seize the Power of Every Moment

“Urgency is characterized as impetuousness, while risk management is defined not as taking the right risk, but as avoiding risk altogether.”
― Erwin Raphael McManus, Chasing Daylight: Seize the Power of Every Moment

“You were born to live a great adventure; You were created with a divine destiny; You are called to fulfill a great mission. You were designed for a unique purpose. Now you are called to live it out.”
― Erwin Raphael McManus, Chasing Daylight: Seize the Power of Every Moment

“Imagine the power of our lives if we could know with confidence that when others see us, they would also see God; that God would reveal Himself through an ordinary human being; that those who today are blind to God would have their eyes opened by the life each of us lives.”
― Erwin Raphael McManus, Chasing Daylight: Seize the Power of Every Moment

“You can choose to establish a monument for prayer or pray to unleash a movement. One is religious; the other revolutionary. In”
― Erwin Raphael McManus, Chasing Daylight: Seize the Power of Every Moment

“When we offer ourselves as instruments for God’s purpose, we create opportunities for others to experience God through us. We become living lightning rods of God’s activity. Our lives become the X that marks the spot. Our obedience creates a spiritual epicenter through which God shakes up the world around us and others come to know Him. HIS”
― Erwin Raphael McManus, Chasing Daylight: Seize the Power of Every Moment

“It’s pretty easy to see the doors of opportunity, and it is always exhilarating when windows of opportunity open before us. What can be missed are the endless divine opportunities hidden behind the walls that can be discovered only if we go through the walls. Some of life’s greatest opportunities are not behind doors or windows, but behind walls. They require genuine effort. Beyond risk they require real sweat.”
― Erwin Raphael McManus, Chasing Daylight: Seize the Power of Every Moment

“Our pop theology has eliminated the place for risk and insulated us with a comfort-and-security theology. This view runs counter to what is found in the Scriptures. I want to reiterate the fact that the center of God’s will is not a safe place, but the most dangerous place in the world. God fears nothing and no one. God moves with intentionality and power. To live outside God’s will puts us in danger, but to live in His will makes us dangerous.”
― Erwin Raphael McManus, Chasing Daylight: Seize the Power of Every Moment

“Many of us, though, face a new poverty. We are not living on the streets, but we are stuck in a rut. We are in danger of gaining the whole world and losing our souls. What we have received from God has taken preeminence over the God who has received us. His gifts are for us to enjoy, but not for us to worship. If what He has given us now stands between us, we must once again lay it at His feet. No matter how rich we become, we must always remain poor. We must ensure that while we celebrate the goodness of God, we do not neglect the purpose of God.”
― Erwin Raphael McManus, Chasing Daylight: Seize the Power of Every Moment

“The most important moments rarely come at a convenient time. Sometimes you wish that God would check your calendar first. The ironic part is that our schedules get packed with the mundane and ordinary, and we become irritated with God when He interrupts us with the miraculous and extraordinary. The Scriptures are full of stories about people who were rudely interrupted by God. We read them and long to have the kind of adventure experienced by those men and women. Yet when God interrupts us, are we willing to respond on a moment’s notice? STUCK”
― Erwin Raphael McManus, Chasing Daylight: Seize the Power of Every Moment

“All God seems to be known for is legalism, rules, judgments, commands and wrath. In fact, Jesus calls us to live a life of unimaginable adventure. It begins the moment we choose to follow Him. It is no less than to pass from existence to life. Though we are not taken out of time and space, we are translated into an entirely different dimension of living. Jesus tells us that He is the portal into this life and the quest that follows. Jesus describes Himself as a door, a gate, a portal. In other words, an escape hatch. He has come to free us from a meaningless existence and liberate us to a life filled with adventure. He has come to lead us out of the mundane and into the extraordinary. Strangely enough we find it hard to trust Him, while all the time He has been trying to lead us out of the dark dungeons we have created for ourselves and let us run free in the light of day. When we come to Him, he translates us into an entirely new realm of living. His promise is that in Him we will find the life that our hearts have always longed for. Jesus was crucified as a criminal, but what His accusers didn’t know was that He was planning and fulfilling history’s most extraordinary prison break. When we open our lives to Him, we can live our lives wide open. We are translated from one reality into another. We are now forever in relationship with the One who is the source of love, life, and freedom. Everything”
― Erwin Raphael McManus, Chasing Daylight: Seize the Power of Every Moment