Erwin McManus Quotes
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All the evidence you need to prove God is waiting within you to be discovered.
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The world doesn't need more great leaders, it needs more great people who lead.
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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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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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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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As a speaker, I can inspire people to change but as a writer I can guide people to change. That's why books are so important. As a pastor, though, I can be a part of creating the change the world so desperately needs.
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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 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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Churches all over the country have decided they love their traditions more than their children.
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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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Behind real freedom, there lies 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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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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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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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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The limitations you are willing to accept establish the boundaries of your existence.
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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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Greatness comes with discipline.
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Whoever tells the best story shapes the culture.
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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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What is the future you're creating right now?
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A person God himself deems as wise is one who not only hears His voice, but immediately begins to act upon His instruction.