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We can’t change history, but we can create the future.

Erwin McManus

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Erwin McManus
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: August 28
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Humility is not about having a low self-image or poor self-esteem. Humility is about self-awareness.
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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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To be apathetic is literally to be without passion.
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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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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 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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Great dreams require great courage.
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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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A life well lived is the most exquisite work of art.
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The world doesn't need more great leaders, it needs more great people who lead.
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Courage is not the absence of fear it is the absence of self.
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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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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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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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When you live your life knowing the mission and calling and voice of God in your soul and you know where that compass is driving you forward, you will become a rare commodity in a world searching for direction.
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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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It’s a wonderful thing when you look inside your own heart and like what you see.
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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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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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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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