Delays are as much a part of God plan as answered prayers. God wants you to trust him.
RICK WARRENGod changes caterpillars into butterflies, sand into pearls and coal into diamonds using time and pressure. He’s working on you, too.
More Rick Warren Quotes
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Whenever you feel unimportant, unloved, or insecure, remember to who you belong.
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Faithful servants never retire. You can retire from your career, but you will never retire from serving God.
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The closer you live to God, the smaller everything else appears.
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Great opportunities are often disguised as small acts of service.
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Worship isn’t an event to attend & watch. It’s a lifestyle to be lived.
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God’s ultimate goal for your life on earth is not comfort, but character development. He wants you to grow up spiritually and become like Christ.
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The more you care about the powerless, the more power you have. The more you serve those with no influence, the more influence God gives you. The more you humble yourself, the more you’re honored by others.
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Nothing else you do will ever matter as much as helping people establish an eternal relationship with God.
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You don’t have to be famous to be great.
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When you give someone your time, you are giving them a portion of your life that you’ll never get back.Your time is your life. That is why the greatest gift you can give someone is your time
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To make the most of your life you must keep the vision of eternity continually in your mind and the value of it in your heart.
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Those who follow the crowd usually get lost in it.
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While it is wise to learn from experience, it is wiser to learn from the experiences of others.
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We become whatever we are committed to.
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The greatest use of your words is prayer. Talk to God about EVERYTHING, all the time. Maintain a running conversation.
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Unkind people need your kindness the most. They advertise their pain.
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What matters is not the duration of your life, but the donation of it.
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God specializes in giving people a fresh start.
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Since God intends to make you like Jesus, he will take you through the same experiences Jesus went through. That includes loneliness, temptation, stress, criticism, rejection, and many other problems.
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The way you think determines the way you feel, and the way you feel determines the way you act.
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God accepts us unconditionally, and in his view we are all precious and priceless. Focus on this and you will not waste any time and effort trying to be someone you’re not.
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There is nothing you can do that will make God stop loving you. You could try, but you simply can’t do it – because his love for you is based upon his character and not on anything you do or say or feel.
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Life minus love equals zero.
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Humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less. Humility is thinking more of others.
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Don’t’ call it a failure, call it an education. Some of us are very educated.
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Prayer is the greatest use of my words.
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