The Last Arrow Quotes

“We can become so afraid of death that we never live, so afraid of failure that we never risk, so afraid of pain that we never discover how strong we really are.”
― Erwin Raphael McManus, The Last Arrow: Save Nothing for the Next Life

“Average is always a safe choice, and it is the most dangerous choice you can make.”
― Erwin Raphael McManus, The Last Arrow: Save Nothing for the Next Life

“It's odd how we prioritize the things the things that matter to us. We choose a career or job; we choose a city or place to live. We make so many things important to us, but in all the things we factor in as we craft our futures, we make the people in our lives a commodity of, at best, secondary importance. We would take a job and give up our people rather than choose a tribe and give up the job.”
― Erwin Raphael McManus, The Last Arrow: Save Nothing for the Next Life

“The great tragedy that I have witnessed over and over again is that we keep underestimating how much God wants to do in us and through us. Too many of us have believed the lies we have been told: that we’re not good enough, we’re not smart enough, we’re not talented enough, we’re just not enough. One of the facets of God that makes him extraordinary is his ability to do the impossible through ordinary, everyday, common people like you and me.”
― Erwin Raphael McManus, The Last Arrow: Save Nothing for the Next Life

“The tragedy of a life that is never fully lived is not simply the loss of that one life. The tragedy is the endless number of lives that would have been forever changed if we had chosen to live differently.”
― Erwin Raphael McManus, The Last Arrow: Save Nothing for the Next Life

“So often you blame God for the life you have, but you do not know what life you want. Certainly there is a dilemma here. The life you want may not be the life God wants for you. This is why the process must begin by loving God first. It is in loving God with all your heart and mind and soul that he begins to shape your passions. When God has your heart, you can trust your desires. His will is not a map; it is a match. He shows you the way by setting you on fire. You will know God’s desire for you by the fire in you! The fire in you will light the way.”
― Erwin Raphael McManus, The Last Arrow: Save Nothing for the Next Life

“Success will lie to you and tell you that your future is just an extension of your past, when at its best, success is simply preparation for new challenges.”
― Erwin Raphael McManus, The Last Arrow: Save Nothing for the Next Life

“If we choose to live a small life, we do not make enough room for a big GOD.”
― Erwin Raphael McManus, The Last Arrow: Save Nothing for the Next Life

“Life is a series of challenges, adventures, and yes, even battles. There will always be giants to subdue and dragons to slay. I have already decided to die with my sword in hand. There is more courage in us than danger ahead of us. You are strong enough for the battles ahead.”
― Erwin Raphael McManus, The Last Arrow: Save Nothing for the Next Life

“You'll be hard pressed to find any story in the Scriptures in which God becomes angry because someone has too much faith, too much determination, too much resolve. The truth is, we keep repeating the same mistakes over and over again. God puts the bow and the arrows in our hands and tells us to shoot and to strike. And instead of pressing the limits of what God could do in and through our lives, we assume that his intention for us is less and so we settle fo what we can do rather than what God intended to do through us.”
― Erwin Raphael McManus, The Last Arrow: Save Nothing for the Next Life

“I made a decision that while cancer may define how I die, it would not define how I live.”
― Erwin Raphael McManus, The Last Arrow: Save Nothing for the Next Life

“I found a strange solace and safety in my power of invisibility and made obscurity my residence.”
― Erwin Raphael McManus, The Last Arrow: Save Nothing for the Next Life

“And instead of pressing the limits of what God could do in and through our lives, we assume that his intention for us is less and so we settle for what we can do rather than what God intended to do through us.”
― Erwin Raphael McManus, The Last Arrow: Save Nothing for the Next Life

“nosotros a menudo queremos que Dios nos dé más de las cosas equivocadas, mientras nos conformamos con menos de las cosas que más importan.”
― Erwin Raphael McManus, La Última Flecha: No guardes nada para la próxima vida

“You need to act like your life depends on it, because it’s never just your life involved. You need to never settle for less because the world desperately needs everything you can bring to the table.”
― Erwin Raphael McManus, The Last Arrow: Save Nothing for the Next Life

“The shift that happens when you refuse to remain or be defined by the average comes when you cross a line others would consider madness.”
― Erwin Raphael McManus, The Last Arrow: Save Nothing for the Next Life

“This journey is about ensuring that when we come to the end of our lives, we will arrive at our final moments with no regret.”
― Erwin Raphael McManus, The Last Arrow: Save Nothing for the Next Life

“want to go fast, go alone; if you want to go far, go together; if you want to go far fast, GoTRIBE.” I assure you this is true in every arena of life. You will go faster and farther when you find your tribe. When you find a people committed to a common mission, a common purpose, you find those individuals who are like hearted and like minded and carry the same fire you carry and whose passion burns as brightly as yours. People don’t slow you down; the wrong people slow you down. When you choose the right people,”
― Erwin Raphael McManus, The Last Arrow: Save Nothing for the Next Life

“Sometimes we pray; sometimes we are the answers to prayer. You become the answer to prayer when you act as though your life depends on it. Because it does. And so do the lives of everyone your life touches.”
― Erwin Raphael McManus, The Last Arrow: Save Nothing for the Next Life

“I want to live the kind of life that cannot be lived without the fullness of Christ in my life.”
― Erwin Raphael McManus, The Last Arrow: Save Nothing for the Next Life

“Sometimes God allows us to go through tremendous disruption so that we might choose the path to freedom.”
― Erwin Raphael McManus, The Last Arrow: Save Nothing for the Next Life

“Lo cierto es que muchos de nosotros pedimos muy poco de Dios porque pensamos muy poco de Él. Tenemos temor a hacer grandes oraciones porque si Dios no interviene, eso podría hacer tambalear nuestra fe. Estoy convencido de que con demasiada frecuencia intentamos proteger a Dios con nuestras oraciones. Le pedimos que haga solamente lo que nosotros mismos podemos hacer, para así no ponerlo a Él en una posición embarazosa y demostrar a los incrédulos que Dios no es tan poderoso como habíamos esperado. Puedo asegurarte que Dios no necesita nuestra protección. Él no necesita nuestras pequeñas oraciones para proteger su gran nombre. ¿Es posible que nuestros sueños son demasiado pequeños para Dios y que nuestras ambiciones son demasiado pequeñas para necesitar a Dios? Si decidimos vivir una vida pequeña, no hacemos espacio suficiente para un Dios grande. Una y otra vez en las Escrituras, Dios llama a hombres y mujeres que piensan muy poco de sí mismos para lograr cosas grandes. Dios toma a hombres y mujeres que se sentían demasiado pequeños para una vida grande, y los desafió a soñar en grande y a vivir en grande.”
― Erwin Raphael McManus, La Última Flecha: No guardes nada para la próxima vida

“Cuando Jesús preguntó a los hombres “¿Qué quieren que haga por ustedes?”, no fue porque Jesús no lo supiera, sino porque necesitaba que ellos declararan lo que querían que Él hiciera por ellos.”
― Erwin Raphael McManus, La Última Flecha: No guardes nada para la próxima vida

“¿no preferirías errar por pedir demasiado que por pedir muy poco?”
― Erwin Raphael McManus, La Última Flecha: No guardes nada para la próxima vida

“Nunca comienzas el viaje de crear la vida que quieres, hasta que sabes lo que quieres.”
― Erwin Raphael McManus, La Última Flecha: No guardes nada para la próxima vida

“Tienes que creer en nuestra amistad”.”
― Erwin Raphael McManus, La Última Flecha: No guardes nada para la próxima vida

“Aunque es innegable que ellos lograron grandes cosas, no lograron esas cosas ellos solos. De hecho, el contraste es donde realmente reside la verdad. Mientras mayor es el logro, más podemos estar seguros de que estuvieron rodeados de un equipo poderoso. Los individuos que logran grandes cosas nunca las logran ellos solos. Ellos fueron los receptores de un don. Se les dio el don de la visibilidad, mientras que quienes sirvieron de manera incansable detrás de ellos aceptaron el camino del anonimato.”
― Erwin Raphael McManus, La Última Flecha: No guardes nada para la próxima vida

“La desafortunada realidad es que muchos de nosotros escogeríamos nuestra comodidad en lugar de nuestro destino; escogeríamos la seguridad sobre la oportunidad; preferiríamos conformarnos con menos que sacrificarnos más.”
― Erwin Raphael McManus, La Última Flecha: No guardes nada para la próxima vida

“No pude evitar pensar en cuántas veces en la vida somos invitados a una aventura extraordinaria y a oportunidades que existen solamente en nuestra imaginación, y dejamos que se nos escapen.”
― Erwin Raphael McManus, La Última Flecha: No guardes nada para la próxima vida

“No te lleves tu pasado a tu futuro. No te lo lleves contigo. Tu pasado será tu futuro hasta que hayas tenido la valentía de crear un nuevo futuro.”
― Erwin Raphael McManus, La Última Flecha: No guardes nada para la próxima vida