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Love never comes without wounds; faith never comes without failure.
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I guess when I really think about it, God's voice sounds a lot like my voice.
Erwin McManus
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You're not supposed to die with your potential. A life well lived squeezes all the potential placed within and does something with it.
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My goal is to destroy Christianity as a world religion and be a recatalyst for the movement of Jesus Christ ... Some people are upset with me because it sounds like I'm anti-Christian. I think they might be right.
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It is not balance you need but adaptability.
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The history of God's people is not a record of God searching for courageous men and women who could handle the task, but God transforming the hearts of cowards and calling them to live courageous lives.
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If you were meant to fly, not even running really fast is that impressive.
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The world doesn't need more great leaders, it needs more great people who lead.
Erwin McManus
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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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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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If God imagined you at birth, what makes you think He's stopped imagining you now.
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Attitude is an accurate monitor of where we fall on the spectrum of pride and humility.
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People who are fully alive look out of their minds to those who simply exist.
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The church must acclimate to a changing world, or she will destine herself to irrelevance or even extinction. ...One of those dramatic changes in our environment is the shift from words to images. To do church in a way that is entirely text driven is the kiss of death.
Erwin McManus
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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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Jesus is being lost in a religion bearing his name.
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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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Churches all over the country have decided they love their traditions more than their children.
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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.
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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.
Erwin McManus
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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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We may not be able to accomplish everything we can dream, but we will not accomplish anything without our dreams.
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Great dreams require great courage.
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If our children are going to walk away from Christ, we need to raise them in such a way that they understand that to walk away from Jesus is to walk away from a life of faith, risk and adventure and to choose a life that boring, mundane and ordinary.
Erwin McManus