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You cannot wash the feet of a dirty world if you refuse to touch it

Erwin McManus

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Erwin McManus
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: August 28
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The world doesn't need more great leaders, it needs more great people who lead.
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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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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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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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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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We can’t change history, but we can create the future.
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When we lack integrity, we use power to control. When we lead with integrity, we use power to bless.
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Deeper than our instinct to live is our longing to be alive.
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Behind real freedom, there lies discipline.
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Far too often, when we think we are frightened by mystery, the fact is that we are haunted by history.
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I am convinced the Church is the greatest hope for humanity and for creating a new world where everyone is valued and embraced regardless of differences.
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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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We were created to be expressions of the goodness and wholeness of God.
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Courage is not the absence of fear it is the absence of self.
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People who are fully alive look out of their minds to those who simply exist.
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