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Our citizenship is in eternity history is our temporary residence.

Erwin McManus

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Erwin McManus
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: August 28
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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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Courage frees us from the fears that would rob us of life itself.
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Attitude is an accurate monitor of where we fall on the spectrum of pride and humility.
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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 future awaits those with the courage to create it.
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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 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 most important moments rarely come at a convenient time
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It is not balance you need but adaptability.
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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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Behind real freedom, there lies discipline.
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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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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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To be apathetic is literally to be without passion.
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How is it, that for many of us, being a good Christian is nothing more than being a good person? The entire focus of our faith has been the elimination of sin, which is important but inadequate rather than the unleashing of a unique, original, extraordinary, wonderfully untamed, faith.
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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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Courage is not the absence of fear it is the absence of self.
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Deeper than our instinct to live is our longing to be alive.
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Love never comes without wounds faith never comes without failure.
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You cannot wash the feet of a dirty world if you refuse to touch it
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