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There is no cramming for a test of character. It always comes as a pop quiz.

Andy Stanley

When happiness points in one direction while wisdom, truth, integrity, and common sense point in another, that’s when really smart people start doing really stupid things.
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Direction Happiness People Point Smart Stupidity Wisdom Yourself
There is an appropriate way to use your story, not as an excuse but as a testimony to God’s ability to free you from the past.
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Ability Freedom Story Yourself
Next generation leaders are those who would rather challenge what needs to change and pay the price than remain silent and die on the inside.
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Challenge Death Generation Need Pay Price Silence
Stop looking for solutions to problems and start looking for the right path.
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Path Problem Right Solution
Your greatest accomplishment may not be something you do but someone you raise.
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Accomplishment Greatness Rise Yourself
Grace is the vehicle God uses on occasion to ensure that we get precisely what we dont deserve.
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Ability Deserve God Grace Vehicle
Leaders who refuse to listen, will eventually be surrounded by people who have nothing helpful to say.
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Help Leadership Listening Surround Talk
There is no cramming for a test of character. It always comes as a pop quiz.
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Character Judgement Quiz Test
Telling someone they’re wrong is not the same as leading or inspiring them to do what’s right.
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Difference Inspirational Leadership Right Wrong Yourself
Dreamers dream about things being different. Visionaries envision themselves making a difference.
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Difference Different Dreams Vision
If you devote yourself to more than yourself … you will have more than yourself to show for yourself.
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Devotion Yourself
One of the most compelling arguments for the Christian faith is the simple fact that it survived.
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Christian Faith Simple
Many years from now, what would you like people to line up and thank you for?
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Line People Thankful Time
The starting block for people who are going to stay in love is mutual submission.
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Block Love People
If there is a perceived difference between what you expect from others and what you expect from yourself, it will eventually erode your influence.
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Christian God Religious
Nothing has stolen more dreams, dashed more hopes, broken up more families, and messed up more people psychologically than our propensity to disregard God’s commands regarding sexual purity.
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Broken Dream People
God is a God of systems and predictability and order, and God honors planning.
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Honor Order Planning
What you fear most will determine whether you merely save for the future or give for the future.
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Determine Fear Future Give
Don’t be fair, be engaged.
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Active Engaged Fair
As long as you are carrying a secret, as long as you are trying to ease your conscience by telling God how sorry you are, you are setting yourself up to repeat the past.
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God Long Past Sorry Tell
Maintaining peace with God is more important than keeping pace with someone else.
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God Important Maintain Oneself Peace
What is this generation of students worth? It’s worth everything.
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Christian Church Leadership
Here’s something to think about: If God appeared to you and asked, “Why should I let you into heaven?” how would you answer?
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Christian God Religious
Guilt rarely results in positive behavior. But gratitude? Great things flow from a heart of gratitude.
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Gratitude Guilty Heart Positive
Any fear associated with giving to God’s kingdom is irrational. It’s on par with a farmer who, out of fear of losing his seed, refuses to plant his fields.
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Farmer Fear God Himself Irrational Lose
Do for one what you wish you could do for everyone.
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Compassionate Kindness Oneself Yourself
I can’t make people fall in love with Jesus, but I can arrange dates.
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Arrange Fall In Love God Myself People

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