Erwin McManus Quotes

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When we dwell on the past, we tend to want to live there. When we dream of the future, we want to go there. Our dreams are where God paints a picture of a life waiting to be created.

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Faith is the determination to create with our lives what only our hearts can conceive.

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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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Attitude is an accurate monitor of where we fall on the spectrum of pride and humility.

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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

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You cannot wash the feet of a dirty world if you refuse to touch it

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We are all time voyagers leaving history in our wake, pioneering into the future.

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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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A world without God cannot wait for us to choose the safe path. If we wait for someone else to take the risk, we risk that no one will ever act and that nothing will ever be accomplished.

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The more isolated and disconnected we are, the more shattered and distorted our self-identity. We are not healthy when we are alone. We find ourselves when we connect to others. Without community we don't know who we are... When we live outside of healthy community, we not only lose others. We lose ourselves...Who we understand ourselves to be is dramatically affected for better or worse by those we hold closest to us.

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The real measure of our power is the freedom and opportunity we create for others.

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Humility is not about having a low self-image or poor self-esteem. Humility is about self-awareness.

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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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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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Jesus' death wasn't to free us from dying, but to free us from the fear of death. Jesus came to liberate us so that we could die up front and then live. Jesus Christ wants to take us to places where only dead men and women can go.

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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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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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Sin creates the illusion of freedom. In the end it fools us into seeking freedom from God rather than finding freedom in God.

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Courage is not the absence of fear; it is the absence of self.

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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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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 calling for authenticity, we need to take seriously the brokenness and sinfulness of the human heart. If to be authentic means to be who we really are or to express what we really feel, then in most cases I'm going to vote for hypocrisy. Our prisons are filled with men and women who acted on their feelings and impulses. If authenticity is about being true to yourself, these individuals should be our models of inspiration.

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