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The greatest enemy to the movement of Jesus Christ is Christianity.

Erwin McManus

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Erwin McManus
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: August 28
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The person who loves the process has a much greater chance of success than the person who loves the outcome.
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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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All the evidence you need to prove God is waiting within you to be discovered.
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The future belongs to those who have the courage to create it. We need a new humanity. We need a new expression of community. We need the Church to bring the world together. This makes me excited.
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You cannot wash the feet of a dirty world if you refuse to touch it
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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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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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The fuel of ambition is not the problem it is the focus of ambition that frees or betrays us.
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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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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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When you begin to create the life of your dreams - or maybe better stated, when you begin to live the life that God dreams for you - you take responsibility to prepare for the future.
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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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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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Courage is not the absence of fear it is the absence of self.
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God gives God-sized dreams to people with God-shaped hearts.
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Faith is the determination to create with our lives what only our hearts can conceive.
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People who are fully alive look out of their minds to those who simply exist.
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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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It is amazing where God will take you when you are willing to follow. Life is full of surprises when we choose mystery over security.
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