Top 56 Erwin Raphael McManus Quotes
#1. Far too often, when we think we are frightened by mystery, the fact is that we are haunted by history.
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#2. I have come to realize, after over thirty years of studying human creativity, that the great divide is not between those who are artists and those who are not, but between those who understand that they are creative and those who have become convinced that they are not.
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#3. 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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#4. All art is an expression and extension of ourselves.. Art finds its deepest value when it is the authentic expression of a deep human experience.
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#5. While never violating our uniqueness, we move together, united in heart and soul. Our greatness is unleashed in the context of community. When we move together, God is most perfectly revealed in us.
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#7. goal of spirituality is not to extract from you all desire and passion. The call of Jesus is the exact opposite - delight
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#8. Three powerful life-changing words passed on from God to us: Now choose life! Right now, this moment, put away the baggage from the past, shake yourself free from the fear of the future unknown. Right now, choose life - seize your divine moment. A
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#9. What is your idea of you? Who is it that you have decided to become? If your greatest work of art is the life you live, and ultimately life is a creative act, what life will you choose to leave behind as your masterpiece?
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#11. The fuel of ambition is not the problem; it is the focus of ambition that frees or betrays us.
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#13. The only art we can create is that which authentically reflects who we are. Our soul is the material for all we create. Thus, to nurture the artisan soul, essence is far more important than talent.
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#14. What if the creative act is not an act against God but a reflection of His image within us?
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#15. In an ideal world, the voices that teach us language teach us self-respect, self-confidence, and self-esteem. Those same voices also form in us humility and gratitude, and as those voices inform our inner voices, they also pass on wisdom.
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#16. 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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#17. The best use of technology is to enhance the power of worship that is an expression of spirit and truth.
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#20. For believers in persecuted countries. We champion their sacrifice and willingness to stand for Christ, even at the cost of their own lives. Yet we consider laying aside our traditions and cultural preferences as an unreasonable expectation.
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#21. Home is ultimately not about a place to live but about the people with whom you are most fully alive. Home is about love, relationship, community, and belonging, and we are all searching for home.
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#22. For those of us who embrace the cause of Christ, the cost to participate in the mission of God is nothing less than everything we are and everything we have.
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#23. Whether we realize it or not, everything we do is an expression of either how alive our souls are or how much we have allowed ourselves to be deadened over time.
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#24. Category. A church doesn't need to pray about whether it should pray. It doesn't need to pray about whether it should serve. It doesn't need to pray about whether it should evangelize.
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#25. Most people who describe themselves as visionaries are actually saying something quite different. They are abdicating their responsibility for the details. Details matter. The more someone or something matters to us, the more the details relating to them matter to us.
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#26. We are all time voyagers leaving history in our wake, pioneering into the future.
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#27. Our lives will become our greatest works of art not only when our relationships are a beautiful expression of love, acceptance, and intimacy, but when we have a deep sense of purpose that produces accomplishments that express, for us, success and significance.
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#29. We are called to fear only God. There is an important reason for this. What we fear is what we're subject to; our fears define our master. Where there is no fear, there is no control.
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#30. When we are freed from the rules and regulations that are so often imposed on us in the name of God, we discover that creativity is the natural result of spirituality. And if this is true, then our soul is the primary material for all artistic expression.
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#31. Who do we become when we stop allowing all the voices in our head to crowd out the one voice we must hear to come to life?
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#33. If he's just watching, then we're all unwilling participants in the universe's biggest reality show - the original Survivor.
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#34. Discipleship ... a process of unleashing the creative potential in each person.
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#35. While we may never find or receive the love from others that our hearts are desperate for, we can receive a love even greater than that of which we were deprived.
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#38. We have defined holiness through what we separate ourselves from rather than what we give ourselves to. I am convinced the great tragedy is not the sins that we commit, but the life that we fail to live. You
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#39. The soul is both fragile and resilient...The artisan soul must be both tender and tough.
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#40. The serving that we are called to requires direct contact. You cannot wash the feet of a dirty world if you refuse to touch it.
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#42. Artists love without reservation. They give their hearts completely and leave nothing on the table. They are naked and unashamed. They leave no room for pretension. And because they have given all of themselves, they live without regret.
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#44. the unexpected truth that the safest place for a sinful person to go is to God.
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#45. Attitude is an accurate monitor of where we fall on the spectrum of pride and humility.
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#46. Creativity should be an everyday experience. Creativity should be as common as breathing. We breathe, therefore we create.
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#47. God is not a drug, and He certainly does not create experiences and emotions that make us feel better but not become better.
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#48. Unfortunately, the people who have the greatest influence in our lives rarely understand the power of their words to shape who we become. They never fully understand that what informs us forms us. Words spoken into a soul are like the hands of a potter pressed against wet clay.
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#49. True creativity does not come easily; creativity is born of risk and refined from failure.
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#50. Robert's Rules of Order becomes the guiding text rather than the pattern of the apostolic church.
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#51. According to Scripture, everything is connected, and every action has at least some effect on the whole.
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#52. irony is that, while secular leadership has become blatantly spiritual, Christian leadership has become blatantly (and blandly) secular.
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#53. If we are inherently spiritual creatures, we are by our nature creative beings, yet we live in the fear that if we aspire to be more we will discover ourselves to be less.
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#55. The life of faith is less about gathering information than it is about expanding imagination. The movement Jesus started was a movement of dreamers and visionaries, not a movement of academics and theologians.
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#56. If God refuses to mass-produce but insists on an intimate process that in the end forms each of us into the image of Christ, why would we choose a lesser path for our own lives? The work of the artist begins with the care of his or her own soul.
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