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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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A life well lived is the most exquisite work of art.
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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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Faith is the determination to create with our lives what only our hearts can conceive.
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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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We were created to be expressions of the goodness and wholeness of God.
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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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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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The epicenter of creativity and imagination should be the Church, reflecting the character and glory of God.
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Our citizenship is in eternity history is our temporary residence.
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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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Great dreams require great courage.
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The real measure of our power is the freedom and opportunity we create for others.
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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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You can plant a church and grow a church. That's not that hard to do, but it's harder to be a viable source of transformation in a city or your time or space.
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