Erwin McManus Quotes

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• When we lack integrity, we use power to control. When we lead with integrity, we use power to bless.
• To live outside of God's will puts us in danger; to live in his will makes us dangerous.
• The world doesn't need more great leaders, it needs more great people who lead.
• Your dreams are the product of your longings, a portrait of your potential, and a promise of your future.
• It is amazing how much we can endure when we are convinced there is a purpose to our struggle.
• Far too often, when we think we are frightened by mystery, the fact is that we are haunted by history.
• So many of us have abdicated our passions for obligations, as if passion is a luxury for the young, and we must all grow up…
• Deeper than our instinct to live is our longing to be alive.
• Sin creates the illusion of freedom. In the end it fools us into seeking freedom from God rather than finding freedom in God.
• The journey to freedom is paved by the substance of our character.
• Humility is not about having a low self-image or poor self-esteem. Humility is about self-awareness.
• It’s a wonderful thing when you look inside your own heart and like what you see.
• The real measure of our power is the freedom and opportunity we create for others.
• How in the world could you ever imagine a life of faith that does not require risk? Faith and risk are inseparable.
• Courage is not the absence of fear; it is the absence of self.
• True religion always moves us to serve others and to give our lives to see those oppressed find freedom.
• Jesus' death wasn't to free us from dying, but to free us from the fear of death. Jesus came to liberate us so that we…
• 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…
• Faith is the determination to create with our lives what only our hearts can conceive.
• The most important moments rarely come at a convenient time

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