Erwin McManus Quotes
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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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Churches all over the country have decided they love their traditions more than their children.
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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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Behind real freedom, there lies discipline.
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True religion always moves us to serve others and to give our lives to see those oppressed find freedom.
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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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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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It is insanity to run from God and search for love.
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You are both a work of art and an artist at work.
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You can plant a church and grow a church. That's not that hard to do, but it's harder to be a viable source of transformation in a city or your time or space.
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The world doesn't need more great leaders, it needs more great people who lead.
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So many of us have abdicated our passions for obligations, as if passion is a luxury for the young, and we must all grow up one day. We, even if reluctantly, fall into place to live a life of conformity that we describe as ‘maturity.’ We’ve made acting like an adult synonymous with living apathetic lives.
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I think a lot of us are not on a path; we're in a rut. We have confused comfort with peace, belief with faith, safety with wisdom, wealth with blessing, and existence with life.
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Greatness comes with discipline.
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The church does not exist for us. We are the church, and we exist for the world.
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You are an artist. What work of art will you leave behind?
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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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The shape of your character is the shape of your future.
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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 limitations you are willing to accept establish the boundaries of your existence.
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We are all hypocrites in transition. I am not who I want to be, but I am on the journey there, and thankfully I am not whom I used to be.
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Your dreams are the product of your longings, a portrait of your potential, and a promise of your future.
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What is the future you're creating right now?
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The first and most important step in the process of becoming genuinely is to be once again authenticated by the original designer.