Strength comes from choosing to fully trust, pray, and praise. Our circumstances may not change, but in the process we change.
CHARLES R. SWINDOLL10% of life is made up of what happens to you. 90% of life is decided by how you react.
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Patience is a bitter plant that produces sweet fruit.
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God does not dispense strength and encouragement like a druggist fills your prescription. The Lord doesn’t promise to give us something to take so we can handle our weary moments. He promises us Himself. That is all. And that is enough.
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The stronger the winds, the deeper the roots, and the longer the winds, the more beautiful the tree.
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The past is over forget it. The future holds hope reach for it.
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10% of life is made up of what happens to you. 90% of life is decided by how you react.
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Attitude keeps me going or cripples my progress. It alone fuels my fire or assaults my hopes. When my attitudes are right, there is no barrier too high, no valley too deep, no dream too extreme, no challenge too great for me.
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If you are having difficulty loving or relating to an individual, take him to God. Bother the Lord with this person. Don’t you be bothered with him – leave him at the throne.
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It helps me if I remember that God is in charge of my day – not I.
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No marriage is “too dead” for the Lord to restore.
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Times may be hard and people may be demanding, but never forget that life is special. Every single day is a special day. God is at work in you!
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Don’t get older; get better: Live realistically. Give generously. Adapt willingly. Trust fearlessly. Rejoice daily.
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When you accept the fact that sometimes seasons are dry and times are hard and that God is in control of both, you will discover a sense of divine refuge, because the hope then is in God and not in yourself.
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The world has changed and it’s going to keep changing, but God never changes; so we are safe when we cling to Him.
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God is a specialist at making something useful and beautiful out of something broken and confused.
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We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can not change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.
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