Erwin McManus - God Quotes

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Love, no matter how you come at it, is a huge risk. It makes it easier for me to remember that God will never reject me because I am not good enough and that any community that has His heart will embrace me as I am. Jesus invites us into a community where imperfect people can find acceptance, love, forgiveness, and a new beginning.

Erwin McManus
For years I have made it my mission to destroy the influence of the Christian clich, 'the safest place to be is in the center of the will of God.' God would never choose for us safety at the cost of significance. God created you so that your life would count, not so that you could count the days of your life,

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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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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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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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This thing that haunts you, that never seems satisfied, the cravings in your soul that you are unable to satiate through all the success that the world can bring this is your soul screaming for God.

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We were created to be expressions of the goodness and wholeness of God.

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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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When the church becomes an institution, people are nothing more than volunteers to be recruited. When the church is a movement, our stewardship becomes the unleashing of our God-given gifts, talents, and passions.

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We have to ask ourselves, 'Am I really trying to discern God's will, or determine whether I want to do it?'

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Jesus did not have a value for prayer for prayer's sake. He had a value for the intimate communion between God and man.

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Two thousand years ago, God started a revolt against the religion He started. So don't ever put it past God to cause a groundswell movement against churches and Christian institutions that bear His name.

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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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