You weren’t put on earth to be remembered. You were put here to prepare for eternity.
RICK WARREN
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Real security can only be found in that which can never be taken from you – your relationship with God.
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Rick WarrenRick Warren Happy moments, PRAISE GOD Difficult moments, SEEK GOD Quiet moments, WORSHIP GOD Painful moments, TRUST GOD Every moment, THANK GOD
Rick WarrenRick Warren Faithful servants never retire. You can retire from your career, but you will never retire from serving God.
Rick WarrenRick Warren I serve a higher power, Jesus Christ. I make no apologies in saying that.
Rick WarrenRick Warren The only really happy people are those who have learned how to serve.
Rick WarrenRick Warren Never let an impossible situation intimidate you. Let it motivate you – to pray more, trust more, expect more.
Rick WarrenRick Warren Receiving, reading, researching, remembering, and reflecting on the Word of God are all useless if we fail to put what we learn into practice.
Rick WarrenRick Warren Racism is stupid. It’s an insult to God, arrogantly implying that God goofed-up when he chose to make us all different.
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Juana GarciaJuana Garcia I would rather shoot my arrows than keep them in my bow, I would rather risk it all than risk nothing at all.
ShamaShama I wish I knew then all of the things I know now that I am enough.
TMCTMC I feel like I’m on fire, fighting for a moment on respite – I’m not placing bets.
M.K. StandbyM.K. Standby I found him in all the chaos, and that was when my world started making sense again.
MoomerMoomer The judgement that people cast on you for how you do or do not appear is nothing more than just a projection of their own wounds.
Taj AroraTaj Arora Be grateful for what you have now, even if it’s not everything you wanted.
Sonia SabnisSonia Sabnis It seems strange how we look in the same mirror, yet what stares back, is so painfully different.
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Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.
Pope FrancisPope Francis Rumor starts as a timid thing, But soon it covers the earth, and its voices ring, While its feet walk the ground and its head is above the clouds.
VirgilVirgil I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens and say there is no God.
Abraham LincolnAbraham Lincoln The memory of the Saints leads us to raise our eyes to Heaven: not to forget the realities of the earth, but to face them with more courage and hope.
Pope FrancisPope Francis To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.
Isaac NewtonIsaac Newton Rumor starts as a timid thing, But soon it covers the earth, and its voices ring, While its feet walk the ground and its head is above the clouds.
VirgilVirgil I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens and say there is no God.
Abraham LincolnAbraham Lincoln The memory of the Saints leads us to raise our eyes to Heaven: not to forget the realities of the earth, but to face them with more courage and hope.
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