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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.

Erwin McManus

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Erwin McManus
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: August 28
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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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Faith is the determination to create with our lives what only our hearts can conceive.
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Would you be willing to give your life to save the world if no one ever knew your name? If anonymity was the price you would have to pay for significance, would it be too great a price? To live a life of courage is not a guarantee of prestige or adulation. It only matters if you live and die fulfilling the mission you were born for.
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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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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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If God imagined you at birth, what makes you think He's stopped imagining you now.
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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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We were created to be expressions of the goodness and wholeness of God.
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To be apathetic is literally to be without passion.
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All the evidence you need to prove God is waiting within you to be discovered.
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