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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.

Erwin McManus

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Erwin McManus
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: August 28
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Religion as a whole specializes in sin management. It's all about organizing humanity in such a way that we cause as little damage as possible.
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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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The fuel of ambition is not the problem it is the focus of ambition that frees or betrays us.
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To be apathetic is literally to be without passion.
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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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The church does not exist for us. We are the church, and we exist for the world.
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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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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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Great dreams require great courage.
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God clarifies in the midst of obedience, not beforehand.
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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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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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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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People who are fully alive look out of their minds to those who simply exist.
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You cannot wash the feet of a dirty world if you refuse to touch it
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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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When we stop believing the world can become a better place, when we stop caring about the lives and conditions of others, we lose a part of ourselves.
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When you're passionate about God, you can trust your passions.
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The world doesn't need more great leaders, it needs more great people who lead.
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