Erwin McManus Quotes
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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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I guess when I really think about it, God's voice sounds a lot like my voice.
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Churches all over the country have decided they love their traditions more than their children.
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If God imagined you at birth, what makes you think He's stopped imagining you now.
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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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Whoever tells the best story shapes the culture.
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All the evidence you need to prove God is waiting within you to be discovered.
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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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Behind real freedom, there lies discipline.
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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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You are both a work of art and an artist at work.
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It is insanity to run from God and search for love.
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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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The epicenter of creativity and imagination should be the Church, reflecting the character and glory of God.
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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 limitations you are willing to accept establish the boundaries of your existence.
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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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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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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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What is the future you're creating right now?
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If you were meant to fly, not even running really fast is that impressive.
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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.