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When you're passionate about God, you can trust your passions.

Erwin McManus

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Erwin McManus
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: August 28
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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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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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God gives God-sized dreams to people with God-shaped hearts.
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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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Attitude is an accurate monitor of where we fall on the spectrum of pride and humility.
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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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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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Courage frees us from the fears that would rob us of life itself.
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The future awaits those with the courage to create it.
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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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The first and most important step in the process of becoming genuinely is to be once again authenticated by the original designer.
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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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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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Courage is not the absence of fear it is the absence of self.
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True religion always moves us to serve others and to give our lives to see those oppressed find freedom.
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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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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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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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People who are fully alive look out of their minds to those who simply exist.
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You need to remember who God is, forget the painful wounds and let Him renew you.
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