Erwin McManus Quotes
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Love, no matter how you come at it, is a huge risk. It makes it easier for me to remember that God will never reject me because I am not good enough and that any community that has His heart will embrace me as I am. Jesus invites us into a community where imperfect people can find acceptance, love, forgiveness, and a new beginning.
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We may not be able to accomplish everything we can dream, but we will not accomplish anything without our dreams.
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You need to remember who God is, forget the painful wounds and let Him renew you.
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What is the future you're creating right now?
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I think Christianity is the same as Buddhism and Hinduism - whenever a religion begins to say that these are the things you have to do to be loved by God, you have a religion.
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This thing that haunts you, that never seems satisfied, the cravings in your soul that you are unable to satiate through all the success that the world can bring this is your soul screaming for God.
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Deeper than our instinct to live is our longing to be alive.
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I am convinced most Americans - yes even white Americans - are committed to justice and equality for all people. I am convinced that most Americans are disgusted and even ashamed that Nazism is alive and well in this country that fought to defeat its evil ideology.
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Your soul craves truth, beauty, wonder, love. Your soul craves to dream, to imagine, and even simply to understand. Your soul craves to connect, to commune, to create.
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The church is not here to meet our needs. We are the church here to meet the needs of the world.
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Great dreams require great courage.
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We need both to aspire and accomplish. Without a vision for your life, without a sense of purpose, you will begin to die a slow death.
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When you're passionate about God, you can trust your passions.
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The Church is not segregated by region or cities. That's an antiquated view of the world. We are united with churches all over the world working toward common goals based on shared values. Mosaic is one of the most racially diverse churches on the planet. Our community and extended Church family is global and completely integrated.
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I"m often accused of being irreligious, and I suppose it's for this very reason. Whether it's Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Catholicism, Hinduism, Judaism, or any other ism, when a religioin is created on the subtle premise that God withholds his love and you must submit to the system to earn that love, I consider it the worst of corruptions... For centuries, the church has been telling us that if we want God to love us, we need to follow the rules. It's been far more important to focus on the sin problem than the love problem.
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The shape of your character is the shape of your future.
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Churches all over the country have decided they love their traditions more than their children.
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The world doesn't need more great leaders, it needs more great people who lead.
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Attitude is an accurate monitor of where we fall on the spectrum of pride and humility.
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Home is ultimately not about a place to live but about the people with whom you are most fully alive. Home is about love, relationship, community, and belonging, and we are all searching for home.
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It's not your freedom to choose that makes you free. It's what you choose in that freedom that makes you free.
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You are both a work of art and an artist at work.
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The epicenter of creativity and imagination should be the Church, reflecting the character and glory of God.
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If God imagined you at birth, what makes you think He's stopped imagining you now.