Erwin McManus Quotes
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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 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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Deeper than our instinct to live is our longing to be alive.
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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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All the evidence you need to prove God is waiting within you to be discovered.
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It is insanity to run from God and search for love.
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If God imagined you at birth, what makes you think He's stopped imagining you now.
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You are both a work of art and an artist at work.
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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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My goal is to destroy Christianity.
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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.
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The world doesn't need more great leaders, it needs more great people who lead.
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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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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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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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When we stop believing the world can become a better place, when we stop caring about the lives and conditions of others, we lose a part of ourselves.
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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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To live outside of God's will puts us in danger; to live in his will makes us dangerous.
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Whoever tells the best story shapes the culture.
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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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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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What is the future you're creating right now?
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Truth should never travel faster than love.