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From Erwin McManus: \u201cMost of us want God to fix every wrong choice we make without taking from us our right to choose wrongly. We want to make God into our own pooper-scooper following right behind us, cleaning up our mess. [But] God lets us make our bed and makes us lie in it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":197,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nQuotable Quotes<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"From Erwin McManus: "Most of us want God to fix every wrong choice we make without taking from us our right to choose wrongly. 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