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“We are all hypocrites in transition. I am not who I want to be, but I am on the journey there, and thankfully I am not whom I used to be.”
-- Erwin McManus
#Hypocrite #Journey #Transition
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“The more isolated and disconnected we are, the more shattered and distorted our self-identity. We are not healthy when we are alone. We find ourselves when we connect to others. Without community we don't know who we are... When we live outside of healthy community, we not only lose others. We lose ourselves...Who we understand ourselves to be is dramatically affected for better or worse by those we hold closest to us.”
-- Erwin McManus
#Self #Community #Healthy
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“It is amazing where God will take you when you are willing to follow. Life is full of surprises when we choose mystery over security.”
-- Erwin McManus
#Mystery #Life Is #Surprise
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“Deeper than our instinct to live is our longing to be alive.”
-- Erwin McManus
#Alive #Longing #Instinct
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“You need to remember who God is, forget the painful wounds and let Him renew you.”
-- Erwin McManus
#Needs #Who God Is #Remember
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“Jesus did not have a value for prayer for prayer's sake. He had a value for the intimate communion between God and man.”
-- Erwin McManus
#Jesus #Prayer #Men
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“It is amazing how much we can endure when we are convinced there is a purpose to our struggle.”
-- Erwin McManus
#Struggle #Purpose #Endure
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“I have so much confidence in the reality of Jesus that I feel no pressure to try to make people act or be a certain way. I'm banking everything on the fact that God actually changes people.”
-- Erwin McManus
#Jesus #Reality #People
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“The most important moments rarely come at a convenient time”
-- Erwin McManus
#Important #Moments
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“The church does not exist for us. We are the church, and we exist for the world.”
-- Erwin McManus
#Church #Doe #World
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“Your dreams are the product of your longings, a portrait of your potential, and a promise of your future.”
-- Erwin McManus
#Dream #Promise #Portraits
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“When we lack integrity, we use power to control. When we lead with integrity, we use power to bless.”
-- Erwin McManus
#Integrity #Use #Bless
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“The world doesn't need more great leaders, it needs more great people who lead.”
-- Erwin McManus
#People #Leader #Needs
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“When the church becomes an institution, people are nothing more than volunteers to be recruited. When the church is a movement, our stewardship becomes the unleashing of our God-given gifts, talents, and passions.”
-- Erwin McManus
#Passion #People #Volunteer
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“If you were meant to fly, not even running really fast is that impressive.”
-- Erwin McManus
#Running #Impressive
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“You're not supposed to die with your potential. A life well lived squeezes all the potential placed within and does something with it.”
-- Erwin McManus
#Doe #Life Well Lived #Wells
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“A person God himself deems as wise is one who not only hears His voice, but immediately begins to act upon His instruction.”
-- Erwin McManus
#Wise #Voice #Instruction
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“The real measure of our power is the freedom and opportunity we create for others.”
-- Erwin McManus
#Real #Opportunity
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“God gives God-sized dreams to people with God-shaped hearts.”
-- Erwin McManus
#Dream #Heart #People
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“It is insanity to run from God and search for love.”
-- Erwin McManus
#Running #Insanity #Searching For Love
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“I refused to let go of what I had.”
-- Erwin McManus
#Letting Go
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“You cannot wash the feet of a dirty world if you refuse to touch it”
-- Erwin McManus
#Dirty #Feet #World
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“If our children are going to walk away from Christ, we need to raise them in such a way that they understand that to walk away from Jesus is to walk away from a life of faith, risk and adventure and to choose a life that boring, mundane and ordinary”
-- Erwin McManus
#Jesus #Children #Adventure
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“You are an artist. What work of art will you leave behind?”
-- Erwin McManus
#Art #Artist #Works Of Art
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“Courage is not the absence of fear; it is the absence of self.”
-- Erwin McManus
#Inspirational #Courage #Self
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“To live outside of God's will puts us in danger; to live in his will makes us dangerous.”
-- Erwin McManus
#Danger #Dangerous
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“The church is not here to meet our needs. We are the church here to meet the needs of the world.”
-- Erwin McManus
#Church #Needs #World
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“We were created to be expressions of the goodness and wholeness of God.”
-- Erwin McManus
#Expression #Goodness #Wholeness
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“Problems, obstacles, and challenges can either become the markers of our limits and limitations, or they can become the springboard into a whole new world.”
-- Erwin McManus
#Challenges #World #Limits
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“Is it possible that the creative act is simply the materialization of the future- making the invisible, visible?”
-- Erwin McManus
#Creative #Invisible
