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

Erwin McManus

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Erwin McManus
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: August 28
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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 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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It is insanity to run from God and search for love.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Behind real freedom, there lies discipline.
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Faith is the determination to create with our lives what only our hearts can conceive.
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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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People who are fully alive look out of their minds to those who simply exist.
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Our citizenship is in eternity history is our temporary residence.
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If God imagined you at birth, what makes you think He's stopped imagining you now.
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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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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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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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All the evidence you need to prove God is waiting within you to be discovered.
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